Shooting withProgram auto

In program auto mode, the camera automatically adjusts the shutter speed and the aperture according to the brightness of the subject just as in the auto adjustment mode (mode dial: ). In addition, the program auto mode can change the shooting settings in the menu, a feature which the auto adjustment mode does not have (page 136).

Jog dial

Shutter button

Mode dial

Program Shift

You can change the aperture value and shutter speed combination while keeping the brightness Þxed.

Set the mode dial to P.

Select the aperture value and shutter speed combination

with the jog dial.

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Ò Ó is indicated while the aperture value and shutter speed combination is shifted.

Shoot the image.To cancel Program Shift

Turn the jog dial to return the indication from Ò Ó to Ò Ó.

•You cannot shift the aperture value and shutter speed combination when the shutter button is pressed halfway down.

•When the brightness changes, the aperture value and shutter speed also change while maintaining the shift amount.

•You may not be able to change the aperture value and shutter speed combination depending on your shooting situations.

•When the ßash mode setting is changed, Program Shift is canceled.

•Setting the mode dial to other than P or turning off the power cancels Program Shift.

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