Just got my new S3

beeGjay wrote in post #2842718
WB is white balance.
I wish I felt that way and do understand your frustration Ellen. Coming from the very simple (a few modes only) P & S world I am having major button & menu overload.

The good part is, that you can still take outstanding pictures with your camera on auto, or better yet, "Program", while you are learning about all those settings. And remember, depending on the type of work you plan on doing, there's many of these features you will probably never need. Many of them are just plain ole novelity. At least to me, and many others.

For registering a function to your shortcut button, you can start on page 61 of the advanced user guide. Quite a few S3 owners that I have read from, including me, have the shortcut button used for metering. The default setting for the shortcut button with the S3 is image quality, and if you wish to shoot in Large/Superfine you can set that from the shortcut button by default. But, you have to be careful because hitting the shortcut button by accident is common also and you'll end up shooting poorer quality images without realizing it. That's the reason if any, to reset your shortcut button to something useful, like metering.

"Just got my new S3" also (refurbished) as a replacement for an S1 that Canon could not fix.

Great little camera that does a whole bunch for the buck.

Question: How do I get this thing to allow me to stitch photos in the clockwise direction??

I can shoot either up and down or across but I must have missed something along the way.

Thank you

wickiup

Spin the little dial on top to Stitch... The when you see the stitch window, 'omni' to the right [or left] and keep tapping until you get the direction you want.. [I just did it again, to make sure of what I was saying]

When you forget to do that, in ZoomBrowser you can select a few files and manually open the Canon Utility program "PhotoStitch" and do your set-up and directions, etc... there. The only slight draw back to that is that in the Stitch Assist mode your exposure for the whole 'Stitch' is set with the first picture; using the program manually, your pictures in the 'Stitch' may be just a whisker different exposure...which results in a tiny difference in the blue of the sky, usually.

Okay, now I can get a stack of two rows of two for four shots total. At least I think I'm gaining

wickiup

"omni" to the left-"omni" to the right.......

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Does that follow: "Circle to the Left" ....?