Modes
Various camera types and specific cameras have different modes. The simpler dial in the top illustration has:
- Manual modes: Manual (M), Program (P), Shutter priority (S), Aperture priority (A).
- Automatic modes: Auto, Action, Portrait, Night portrait, Landscape, Macro.
Most dSLRs have a few manual settings and a small sample of automatic modes. Most SLR-like cameras have manual modes and several automatic scene modes. On point-and-shoot cameras, all manual control may be condensed into one mode (e.g. ASP, for Aperture priority, Shutter priority, Program) or may be completely absent. Many compact cameras show a large array of scene modes. Point-and-shoot and SLR-like digital cameras usually have a movie mode to capture videos, but the design of dSLRs prevents them from having movie modes.
Detailed information found by users on the modes supported by digital cameras are to be found in the ongoing list of digital camera modes.
Read more about this topic: Mode Dial
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