Application (Record)
Taking pictures with your own settings
[Program AE] Mode
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You can take pictures with your own settings by changing the color tone, ISO Sensitivity
and other settings under the [Rec] menu and other menus.
• About recording modes (→48)
●If aperture and shutter speed are shown in red, you
do not have appropriate exposure. You should either
use the flash, change [Sensitivity] settings or set
[Min. Shtr Speed] to a slower speed.
Aperture value Shutter speed
Program Shift
The function for maintaining the same exposure (brightness) while changing the shutter
speed and aperture value combination is called “Program Shift”. You can use “Program
Shift” to take pictures by adjusting the shutter speed and aperture value even in [Program
AE] Mode.

Press the shutter button halfway

Select a combination of shutter

speed and aperture value

Program Shift indicator ( )
Exposure meter
• To cancel Program Shift
→ Rotate the rear dial until the Program
Shift indicator goes off.
●When the camera is turned off, Program Shift is canceled.
●Program Shift may not function for some subject brightness levels.
About the exposure meter
Shutter speed
(Automatic adjustment)
Aperture value
(Automatic adjustment)