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Basic Shooting

This chapterCOPYexplains how to use the fully-automatic modes (1/ ) on the Mode Dial for best results.

With the fully-automatic modes (1/C), all you do is point and shoot and the camera sets everything automatically (p.198). Also, to prevent botched pictures due to mistaken operations, major shooting settings cannot be changed in the fully-automatic modes.

Fully- automatic

modes

About the Auto Lighting Optimizer

In the fully-automatic modes (1/C), the Auto Lighting Optimizer will adjust the image automatically to obtain the optimum brightness and contrast. In the d/s/fmodes, the Auto Lighting Optimizer is enabled by default (p.177).

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