
• About exposure mode
Four exposure modes besides '8'and five Vari
See each reference page for operating instructions and details.
Symbol Exposure mode
A~ AUTO p. 26
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:!.. Portrait p. 35
Eiii Landscape p. 35
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5 Auto p. 56
A | Apertu |
Auto p. 58 |
M Manual p. 60
Characteristics/Shooting situations
The easiest exposure mode for general shooting. Camera controls shutter speed and aperture automatically depending on the subject's
Use this mode to take portraits.The background is blurred to accentuate your main subject.
Use this mode to take pictures of distant scenes.The overall landscape will be sharply focused.This mode is also suitable for capturing nighttime or twilight scenes.
Use this mode to take up·close pictures of subjects such as flowers or insects. Your close·upswill be taken with an artistically blurred background.
Use this mode to take sports pictures. Using a fast shutter speed, it freezes the motion of fast·movingsubjects to create exciting action photos.
Use this mode for subjects with an evening or night background.This mode captures all lighting in the scene, including the foreground subject which is illuminated by the flash, and the background.
Camera controls shutter speed and aperture automatically, while allowing you to make other settings, such as Flexible Program (page 55) or Exposure Compensation (page
64).
You set desired shutter speed, and the camera selects the correct aperture. Freeze the motion of a moving subject using a fast shutter speed or blur the subject using a slower speed.
You set the desired aperture, and the camera selects the correct shutter speed. Lets you determine depth of the in·focusarea (page 102), so you can choose whether near or far subjects are in sharp focus, or whether foreground or background is to be blurred.
Shutter speed and aperture are set manually. Suitable for situations where it is difficult to attain the desired effect using other exposure modes. Long TIme exposure is possible with this expcsure mode.
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