Automatic and Specialized Shooting Modes

Although, as you’ve seen from the discussion so far, the Sony Alpha SLT-A77 is a sophisticated camera with a full range of adjustments available to the serious photographer, it also comes equipped with automatic or special-purpose shooting modes that can do a lot of the photographic heavy lifting for you, if you so choose. These include eight Scene modes, which automatically make all the basic settings needed for certain types of shooting situations, such as portraits, landscapes, close-ups, sports, night portraits, and sunsets. If you choose the standard Auto mode or the more sophisticated Auto+ mode, the camera will use its programmed intelligence to try to identify the type of scene and set itself accordingly. These “autopilot” modes ar....