Canon A95 manual Using the Mode Dial Creative Zone, How to Use the Mode Dial

Shooting – Advanced Functions

Using the Mode Dial (Creative Zone)

Mode Dial

You can freely select camera settings such as the shutter speed and aperture value to suit your shooting purposes.

After settings are made, shooting procedures are

the same as for the mode (p. 34).

See Functions Available in Each Shooting Mode (p. 159) at the end of this manual to find out which settings can be changed in which shooting modes.

How to Use the Mode Dial

1Check that the camera is in Shooting mode.

2Turn the mode dial

and set the icon of the function you wish to use to .

z If the LCD monitor is on,

the shutter speed and aperture value appear automatically.

Shutter Aperture

Speed Value

z The camera operates in the following ways according to the selected function:

The camera automatically sets the shutter speed and aperture value.

The user selects a shutter speed using the left or right button.

The user selects an aperture value using the left or right button.

The user selects the setting (the shutter speed or the aperture value) using the SET button and select a shutter speed or an aperture value using the left or right button.

z The correct exposure has been set if the shutter speed and aperture value show in white on the LCD monitor.

3Shoot the image.

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