I don't know how to shoot continuous shots with my Canon Rebel EOS in manual modes. I have to hit the shutter button twice just to take one photo. Is this a setting I need to change? I am going to take photos of my kids' soccer games this year with all I'm learning on here, but I haven't figured out yet why I need to hit the shutter button twice if I'm in any of the manual modes. Thanks for any help!
@terek55 I have just set my EOS to "M" and continuous, press the shutter and take 6 shots in RAW - no delay and no second push.
Have you changed anything else ?
@terek55 to get "Bulb" - in "M" turn the wheel when it's on shutter time left and after 30 seconds you will get "Bulb". With this setting the shutter will stay open for as long as you keep the shutter button pressed.
I have a Canon EOS, and I usually "cheat" at events like that and put it on the "sport" setting so I can shoot as fast as I want. Works really well, espcially for catching action moves.
@terek55 A half press takes the prefocus - after that it depends on the mode, hit the button with drive in the name, the symbol for continuous shooting is a set of overlaid rectangles, a single one is single shot and the circle with a tick thing in it is timer.
If you're on manual focus it should take a shot with a single press - a half press will tell you whether or not it's focused via a beep and the chosen focus mode squares lighting up red.
*I'm not sure if you need to hit a button then the clickwheel on the rebel, my old 10D has twin clickwheels but Drive-ISO is the button you're after...
@killerjackalope@rrt Thanks!! I guess we'll see tomorrow if i can get a decent shot trying it. I might wind up "cheating" too @petersonsheri ... I have gotten decent shots that way but I hoping for better this time. We'll see tomorrow :)
@terek55 I think the rebel only has the back screen for settings display - been ages since I used one but I'll get a photo of the settings screen I have for comparison, really I need to remember to switch to single shot drive when letting someone take a photo, everytime they get 3 or 6...
I know that some Canon DSLR cameras start to write the image files to storage as soon as you allow the shutter release back past the focus (mid) point. It then locks out further shutter releases until all files are written. It can then appear that continuous shooting mode isn't working.
The trick is to always keep the shutter release partially depressed to prevent files being written to storage until you're done shooting (or until the buffer is full).
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Hope this helps.
Have you changed anything else ?
If you're on manual focus it should take a shot with a single press - a half press will tell you whether or not it's focused via a beep and the chosen focus mode squares lighting up red.
*I'm not sure if you need to hit a button then the clickwheel on the rebel, my old 10D has twin clickwheels but Drive-ISO is the button you're after...
The trick is to always keep the shutter release partially depressed to prevent files being written to storage until you're done shooting (or until the buffer is full).