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| Automatic Mode | This mode tells your camera to use its best judgment to select shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus and flash to take the best shot that it can |
| Portrait Mode | This mode works best when you’re photographing a single subject so get in close enough to your subject (either by zooming in or walking closer) so that your photographing the head and shoulders of them |
| Macro Mode | This mode lets you move your camera closer into your subject to take a close up picture. It’s great for shooting flowers, insects or other small objects |
| Landscape Mode | This mode is ideal for capturing shots of wide scenes, particularly those with points of interest at different distances from the camera |
| Sports Mode (action mode) | Photographing moving objects is what this mode is designed for. It is ideal for photographing any moving objects including people playing sports, pets, cars, wildlife etc. This mode attempts to freeze the action by increasing the shutter speed |
| Night Mode | This mode is for shooting in low light situations and sets your camera to use a longer shutter speed to help capture details of the background but it also fires off a flash to illuminate the foreground (and subject). |
| Movie Mode | This mode extends your digital camera from just capturing still images to capturing moving ones |
| Aperture Priority Mode (A or AV) | This mode is where you choose the aperture and where your camera chooses the other settings (shutter speed, white balance, ISO etc) so as to ensure you have a well balanced exposure. |
| Shutter Priority Mode (S or TV) | This mode where you select a shutter speed and the camera then chooses all of the other settings. |
| Program Mode (P) | This mode is similar to Auto but gives you a little more control over some other features including flash, white balance, ISO etc. |
| Manual Mode | In this mode you have full control over your camera and need to think about all settings including shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, flash etc. |
