Choosing an Exposure Method

You’ll find four methods for choosing the appropriate shutter speed and aperture, when using the semi-automatic/manual modes. (When using Scene Auto Selector mode, the exposure method is chosen for you by the camera.) You can choose among Program, Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority, or Manual from the Shooting menu when using any of the shooting modes except Smart Photo Selector, or when using the Electronic (Hi) shutter mode. (See Figure 5.11.) Your choice of which is best for a given shooting situation will depend on things like your need for lots of (or less) depth-of-field, a desire to freeze action or allow motion blur, or how much noise you find acceptable in an image. Each of the V1’s exposure methods emphasizes one aspect of image capture or another. This section introduces you to all four.