Preventing Camera Shake; Time - Canon EOS REBEL XS Instruction Manual

Preventing Camera Shake*
The camera's mechanical shake caused by the reflex mirror action can
affect images taken with a super telephoto lens or close-up (macro)
lens. In such cases, mirror Iockup is effective.
Mirror Jockup is enabJed by selecting [t?_ Custom Functions
(C.Fn)] and setting [Mirror Jockup] (p.157) to [1: EnabJe]o
@ Focus the subject and press the
shutter button completely. The reflex
mirror will lock up.
@ Then press the shutter button
completely again to take the picture.
The reflex mirror will then go back
down.
"_ Shoeting Tips
@ Using the self-timer <@2> with mirror Iockupo
When you press the shutter button completely, the mirror locks up,
then the picture is taken 2 sec. later.
@ Do not polnl me camera toward the sun. The sun's heat can scorcn aria
damage the shutter curtains.
If you use ouLo exposures, the self-timer, and mirror lockup in
combination, keep pressing the shutter button completely (self-umer
delay time + bulb exposure time). If you let go of the shutter button
dunng the self-timer countdown, there wilI be a shutter-release sound.
mowever this is not the actual shutter release tno picture is taken).
® Even if <%> (Continuous shootingj has been set, single shootin_ wl
still take effect.
The mLrror locks up, and after 30 seconds, it wilt go PaCK down
automatical y. Pressing me shutter button completely again locks up the
mirror again.
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