Why is my Canon Rebel playback screen showing histograms instead of the full photo?

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On my Canon Rebel, after I take a photo and review it, the LCD no longer shows the image full-screen. Instead, the photo appears in a smaller box on the left, and on the right I see black-and-white and color graphs that look like histograms. How do I switch back to the normal full-image playback view?

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You activated by mistake an advanced view mode. You can switch between view modes by pressing "info" (or maybe "display" for you) when in view mode.

The view switchs in that order (sorry for image quality) :

  1. Classical View : your photo and some settings and nothing else

Classical View

  1. Classical View with more information : your photo, some settings image quality (JPG/RAW) and pictures number (xx/yy)

Classical View with more informatio

  1. First Advanced View : image in the top-left corner, histogram on the top-right and settings information in the bottom

First Advanced View

  1. Second Advanced View : image in the top-left corner, color histogram in the top right, classic histogram in the bottom-right, some information in the bottom-left.

Second Advanced View

It's probably a good thing that you stumbled into this "problem". The advanced views are really helpful, especially histograms. Take a look here : How and why do you use an image histogram?

If you don't know about these options, you might want to know about "highlight warning" too and active it. With this possibility, the over-exposed areas (the ones completely white because your sensor received to much light = bad exposition) are blinking. It's really helpful and you probably want to activate it :)

If you don't know how to activate highlight warning, take a look here : 700D how to blink on over-exposure?

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You’ve likely switched the camera into an advanced playback display mode by accident. On Canon Rebel cameras, pressing the INFO or DISPLAY button while reviewing images cycles through different playback screens.

Keep pressing INFO/DISPLAY in playback mode until you return to the normal full-image view.

The graphs you’re seeing are histograms:

  • the black-and-white one shows brightness distribution
  • the color one shows RGB color distribution

These displays are useful for checking exposure and clipping, but if you just want to see the photo normally, cycle back to the standard playback screen.

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