Tip: How to use Sony’s advanced camera settings

Advanced camera settings

Most handheld cameras have a Pro mode where you can access more settings and see more information about the photo. Sony made Pro mode more intuitive than others and also made sure to emulate the company’s system cameras in the user interface. It was done wisely. On the one hand, the camera interface is something that everyone who uses real cameras actually uses, and on the other hand, it’s something that’s been developed over a long period of time by a lot of different manufacturers that have looked at each other, an interface that’s really good at giving you a lot of parameters without To feel unmanageable.

In the upper-left corner of the app, you’ll find a virtual copy of what is often a wheel that you launch on the system’s camera. It says Basic when you launch the camera, but if you press the word, you’ll see a wheel where you can choose camera modes.

If you choose Auto mode, you don’t really have any additional settings to think about, as most things are set to Auto. However, you get more information, such as the ISO number your camera is set to and the exposure time, and you no longer choose how many times you zoom in on the image, but what focal length you have on the lens. A good way to learn the basics of camera settings.

Next come the classic P, S and M.M camera modes which means you set everything yourself, while in P and S modes automation helps you by checking a few settings. In P mode, the camera is in charge of the shutter speed and you control the rest, ensuring as much as possible that the photo is sharp. In S mode, on the contrary, it is the exposure time that you control above all. For example, if you want to take dark photos where the light leaves traces, this is the mode you should use. MR finally allows you to save and access your default camera settings here. What you find in a real camera but miss here is A mode, which is due to the fact that, unlike system cameras and compact cameras, handheld cameras don’t have an adjustable aperture size.

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