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Fine-tuning Program mode

Fine-tuning Program mode

From the course: Learning to Shoot with the Sony Alpha a7 Series

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Fine-tuning Program mode

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- Earlier we discussed program mode. It's a great balance between making some basic decisions and letting the camera do the rest of the work. Normally when shooting in program mode, the only thing you change is ISO. But if you'd like to fine tune this mode, use it more flexibly, you can do that by making changes to things like aperture and shutter speed. Now normally program mode sets these automatically based on the ISO setting, but you can still influence this. If you'd like to try out different combinations of shutter speed and aperture by rotating the control dial, you can do this. These combinations will give you proper exposure, but you can influence the motion stopping, the shutter speed, or the depth of field aperture. Let me give you two quick examples. Let's put this back to zero for exposure compensation. You see here at ISO 1600, it's suggesting an aperture of F5. Well I'd like shallower depth of field. So I could turn the rear dial to adjust the F stop. And let's take…

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