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Exploring Aperture Priority mode

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Exploring Aperture Priority mode

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In Program mode, when you meter a scene by half-pressing the shutter button, the camera calculates an appropriate shutter speed, and aperture, and maybe ISO, if you're set to Auto ISO. There will be times, though, when you know that you're going to want a lot of control of aperture. Maybe you're shooting portraits, and you know that you want them to all have shallow depth of field, so you want to make certain that the camera is always using a wide aperture. Or maybe you're shooting landscapes, and you know that you want really deep depth of field in all of your shots, so you want to make certain that you're always using a very small aperture. Or maybe you're street shooting, and as you're moving around quickly, you're shooting different subject matter, and so you're changing your mind about depth of field, and so you want to be able to really quickly and easily change from a big to a small aperture. In Aperture priority mode, you can choose the aperture that you want, and when the…

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