How To Set The Timer On A Canon Rebel T6

Solution

The camera can be set to release the shutter automatically.

IMPORTANT

The position and shape of the operation buttons, screens displayed, and setting items may differ according to the model you use.

Using the Self-Timer

The self-timer can be used to shoot a grouping photo that includes the photographer or to prevent camera milk shake when pressing the shutter button.

1. Press the [Power] button to turn the camera on.

2. Printing the [ ] button, and when the carte du jour items are displayed, press the [ ], [ ] buttons and select [Self-timer].

3. Press the [ ] push button to access [Self-timer] items.

4. Press the [ ], [ ] buttons, cull [ ] ( x-second cocky-timer ), and and so printing the [ ] push.

NOTE

With the self-timer, you can include yourself in group photos or other timed shots. The camera will shoot about 10 seconds later on y'all press the shutter button.

2-second cocky-timer

This choice delays shutter release until about two seconds afterward you take pressed the shutter button. If the camera is unsteady while you are pressing the shutter button, it volition non affect your shot.

Custom timer

You can specify the filibuster (0 – 30 seconds) and number of shots (i – 10).

5. One time the setting is complete, [ ] is displayed on the screen.

6. Shoot.

For Still Images: Printing the shutter push halfway to focus on the subject, and so printing it all the way down.

For Movies: Press the movie push button.

Once y'all get-go the self-timer, the lamp will blink and the camera will play a selftimer sound.
Two seconds earlier the shot, the blinking and audio will speed up. (The lamp will remain lit in example the flash fires.)

REFERENCE

To cancel shooting after y'all have triggered the cocky-timer, press the [Carte] button.
To restore the original setting, cull [ ] in pace 3.

Using the Face Cocky-timer

The camera will shoot well-nigh ii seconds later on detecting that the face of another person (such as the lensman) has entered the shooting expanse. This is useful when including yourself in group photos or similar shots.

Important

ane. Printing the [Power] button to turn the camera on.

two. If the shooting mode is set to [AUTO], printing the [ ] push button.

[P] has been selected in the example paradigm below.

NOTE

If the photographic camera is set to a mode other than [Auto], this setting is non necessary.

three. Printing the [ ] push to display the card items, and then press the [ ], [ ] buttons to select [Shooting mode].

4. Printing the [ ] button to access the [Shooting mode] items, press the [ ], [ ] buttons to select [ ] and so press the [ ] push button.

REFERENCE

Y'all can change the number of shots for the Face Cocky-Timer.

v. Compose the shot and press the shutter button halfway.

Make sure a greenish frame is displayed around the face you focus on and white frames around other faces.

6. Press the shutter button all the way downwardly.

The camera now enters shooting standby mode, and [Look direct at camera to offset count downwardly] is displayed.

The lamp blinks and the self-timer sound is played.

7. Join the subjects in the shooting area and look at the photographic camera.

Later on the camera detects a new face, the lamp blinking and self-timer audio will speed up. (When the flash fires, the lamp will remain lit.) About two seconds later, the camera volition shoot.

REFERENCE

To cancel shooting after you take triggered the self-timer, press the [Card] button.
Even if your confront is not detected after you join the others in the shooting surface area, the photographic camera will shoot about 15 seconds later.