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Using Flexible Program mode

Using Flexible Program mode

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Using Flexible Program mode

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- While program mode is going to set the shutter speed and aperture automatically, flexible program mode lets you have a little more influence. You're able to try out different combinations of shutter speed and aperture, by just rotating the command dials. Each of these combinations will give you proper exposure, but you could influence the motion stopping, the shutter speed, or the depth of field, aperture. For example, if we rotate this dial here to the right, I get a really wide open aperture. This particular lens is 4.5 What that's going to do is blur the background and use a faster shutter speed to freeze the action. If I take it the other way here, you'll notice that we can get a smaller aperture. This lens goes all the way down to F2.5, but in this case it's going to need one and a third second to make the exposure. Still we get a properly exposed image, but in this case, increased depth of field from foreground to background. If I take it the other way, down to the maximum…

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