From the course: Learning to Shoot with the Sony Alpha a7 Series
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Shutter-Priority Auto mode
From the course: Learning to Shoot with the Sony Alpha a7 Series
Shutter-Priority Auto mode
- Now, if you like the benefits of shooting in Program mode and find it easy, you could still get similar control by using Shutter-Priority mode. In this case, you're going to influence the shutter speed and have the camera make all of the other decisions. This mode is quite useful when doing things, like, shooting sports or fast moving subjects or cars because it allows you to freeze the action or if you want, to stretch it out, maybe making it smoother, like a flowing waterfall or a river. To use Shutter-Priority mode is pretty simple. Just turn the dial to S. Now, activate your camera by half-pressing the shutter button. You'll see we're in Shutter-Priority mode and right now, I can dial in the shutter speed. By turning the dial here, I'm able to pick a speed that I want. Now, the blinking aperture is indicating that we can't achieve that result. We'll talk more about that later. And now, as I start to change shutter speed, you'll see that the aperture changes. So if I want to slow…
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