■Shooting with Manual Exposure Settings (M mode)

The following shows the ranges for the shutter speed and aperture settings you can configure in the M mode.

Shutter Speed

Slower

 

 

Faster

 

 

 

 

 

60 seconds

 

 

1/800 second

 

 

 

 

 

Movement

Blurred

 

 

Frozen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aperture (Zoom

Wider

 

 

Narrower

 

 

at full wide

 

 

 

 

F3.4

 

 

F4.6/F9.2*

angle)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus range

Narrow

 

 

Wide

 

 

1.Set the mode dial to “M”.

2.Press [SET] as many times as required to select the shutter

speed setting and then use [W] and [X] to set the speed you want.

M Mode

Aperture

Shutter Speed

*The camera has a built-in ND filter to limit exposure. F9.2 is the aperture when the ND filter is being used.

NOTE

•Sensitivity is fixed at “ISO 50” when shooting with manual exposure (M mode) while “Auto” is selected for the “ISO” setting (page 141). For other “ISO” settings, the allowable shutter speed range changes in accordance with the sensitivity setting.

3.Press [SET] as many times as required to select the aperture setting and then use [W] and [X] to set the aperture value you want.

•When using manual focus, you can also use [SET] to select “FOCUS” and then use [W] and [X] to focus manually.

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