CanonTom Loc: Birmingham

Well, been fooling around with my Canon 60D looking and trying settings I have never used and now I have a white box horizontal shape, longer east to west shorter north to south so to speak. I see this white box whenever I press the play back button to view the photo I just shot.

First popup I get is histogram, photo and data, etc, press + again I get full screen image of pic just taken with that darn box on it...if I press the + button again I see that I am zooming in on the same image while the white color in the box starts to shrink toward boxes center. I seem to be taking multiple images each time I press the shutter too.

Anyway, I went to the menu that resents custom settings back to factory settings, and told the camera to revert to canon preset menu items. I did lose one or more custom settings in that I had to re setup back button focus for example but that danged box is still there. Apparently some changes do not get reset.....Can anyone please tell me what I have done and how to revert to taking just one shot at a time and hopefully get rid of the box?

Thanks, Tom

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Are you looking at the electronic level? I don't have a 60D, but you might search your manual for this topic and find the menu section in the camera that controls it's display off and on. Your info button on the back of the camera might also control?

CanonTom Loc: Birmingham

I don''t think that's it CHG. Info displays does not look any different. Not electronic level. On 60D it does not look like this at all. I think the last thing I was trying had to do with exposure compensation and /AEB setting. I was playing with the new flash I got that I posted about a few days ago and was experimenting with allowing various shots to get various amounts of flash if I remember correctly. Hopefully that will tell you enough to have an idea......also I have a book regarding the 60d and seem to remember reading that some of the settings regarding bracketing would not be automatically reset if camera was to return to factory settings and that it would stay same until I went back in and changed it back....just cannot remember what that was. Additional ideas greatly appreciated!!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

It sounds like bracketing. I'd check that part of the manual. If still at a loss, take a clear phone picture of the back of the camera and post. Since you don't know what it is and you're off in the weeds of camera settings, your description isn't triggering a clear idea of what you're trying to describe.

CanonTom Loc: Birmingham

Definitely off in the weeds on this one.............lol. I think it does have to do with bracketing also. I will try to see if I not only have to set the amount of bracketing back to none but wondering if there is a menu item to turn bracketing off period..... will try that and thanks. Tom

CanonTom Loc: Birmingham

Well I fixed it! Not sure that is totally true as I stumbled onto it but the box is gone and the playback is acting normally again.

I remembered that I was experimenting with bracketing light while using the external flash un e-TTL mode (I found I am not even close to being able to adjust flash manually yet!). Camera in manual mode with ISO on auto, shutter on 40th and f1.8. I decided to try bracketing the amount of flash that was going into the shot (well at least I think that is what the menu item meant). ANYWAY......I decided that since some of those menu items did not show up unless flash was mounting in hot shoe and turned on, that I was trying to kill my setting with flash removed......I remounted flash, turned it on, went back to the bracketing menu and tried to kill bracketing again........this time everything was back to normal! Not sure what I did but it works again.

Interesting that I found that I am getting better flash shots in manual than I was able to get in AV or TV mode. The little auto mode with the woman's head was a joke......I am having fun learning! Thanks CHG!

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

With the 60D I find the Landscape mode, sets the Camera to take very good Pictures, for most Occasions.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind