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Understanding Modes and Settings Modes—Automatic, Portrait, Macro and Landscape For super-basic beginners the automatic mode will be critical, until you learn to control the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus, and flash yourself. But—to begin taking photos off of auto-mode you need to learn the differences between the different settings. Portrait mode uses a narrow [...]

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Digital Camera Modes Explained

by rwilding on November 12, 2011

Automatic This mode is self explanatory—it does everything for you. This is for point-and-click photographers—but, if you are reading this then odds are automatic mode is not you.   Semi-Automatic While the name of this mode conjures up mental imagery of bad-ass machine guns, it is not quite that exciting. A semi-automatic mode is perfect [...]

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