Canon 5D Mark II tips for using Canon 5d mark ii

1. Basic settings: Choose raw+jpeg when shooting, because RAW ensures the best quality of the picture and provides the maximum space for post-processing, while jpeg is easy to browse and improves efficiency. When shooting outdoor scenes, if you want to get the best image quality, then use the DPP software that comes with the camera on your computer to adjust the color, sharpness/saturation and contrast under the premise of using the RAW format, because the RAW format file is in the adjustment process. The quality of the photo will not be lost. After making the above adjustments, convert the photo to tiff format, and finally adjust and design it through PS. When you need to shoot a lot, it will be better to use high-quality jpeg format.

2. Set the detail parameters to increase the sharpness to 3 or 4 when shooting outdoors, so that it can remain unchanged whether it is cloudy or sunny. This is mainly due to the fact that more than 20 million pixels can ensure Every detail of the scene shot on location can be well represented. The setting of contrast needs to be cautious. If you compensate the contrast in the positive direction, the dark contrast in the photo will be enhanced. If the environment itself has strong dark contrast, increasing the contrast will be counterproductive. So in most cases don't adjust the contrast. For the same reason, it is not recommended to adjust the saturation and hue. If you must adjust it, please go to PS to adjust it.

3. Color restoration Even under bright stage lights and complex lighting conditions, mark II can still correctly restore colors under such conditions. The mark II has several special features: autofocus fine-tuning/highlight tone priority, peripheral light correction and automatic brightness optimization. The most useful of these functions should be autofocus fine-tuning and highlight tone priority, followed by peripheral light correction and automatic brightness optimization.

4. Here is a brief introduction to the autofocus fine-tuning. The specific operation method: open the "Menu", enter "Customized Functions", select "Autofocus/Driver", the 8th item is the autofocus fine-tuning. There are three options here, namely "off, adjust all lenses uniformly, adjust by lens". When the focus error comes from the camera body, select the second item "Adjust all lenses uniformly". If the focus error comes from the lens, select "Adjust by lens", so that the "out of focus" problem can be solved.

5. Highlight tone priority When shooting, we pursue beauty and brightness, so the exposure will be deliberately compensated in the positive direction. Then the bright parts of the picture may lose details, resulting in an unnatural transition. At this time, turning on the highlight tone priority function of mark II can preserve the details of the photo to the maximum extent, making the highlight part of the photo full of detailed appeal.