{"id":6569,"date":"2015-04-28T19:19:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/the-camera-mode-wheel\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:19:57","slug":"the-camera-mode-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/28\/the-camera-mode-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camera Mode Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mode-wheel.jpg' title='Camera Mode Wheel'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mode-wheel.jpg' alt='Camera Mode Wheel' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>I have been in possession of my <strong>Canon EOS Rebel SL1<\/strong> since last December. Damsel has had Canon EOS Rebels for years, but this one is my first semi-serious DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera.<\/p>\n<p>Since I had little experience with DSLRs other than borrowing Damsel&#8217;s from time to time, I bought and read &#8220;<em>Canon EOS Rebel SL1\/100D for Dummies<\/em>.&#8221; The book helped a lot in that it pointed out all of the special features of the camera including the menus plus all of the modes available on the wheel and a few more beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>In this post I will discuss what the Canon manual describes as &#8220;creative modes,&#8221; which are P, Tv, Av and M seen in the image enclosed by an arc and braces on the upper left side of the wheel in the image. I won&#8217;t go into all the other modes available other than to enumerate them. Starting with the green box &#8220;A&#8221; on the left going counter-clockwise, the fixed modes are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scene Intelligent Auto<\/li>\n<li>Flash Off<\/li>\n<li>Creative Auto<\/li>\n<li>Portrait<\/li>\n<li>Landscape<\/li>\n<li>Close-up<\/li>\n<li>Sports<\/li>\n<li>and Special Scene Mode with a variety of kitschy settings available (snow, beach, fireworks, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for the creative modes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>P<\/strong> is for &#8220;Program AE,&#8221; which automatically selects aperture and shutter speed for you. If you select ISO AUTO, then this mode is more-or-less completely automatic with the exception that if you want the flash to fire, you must deploy the pop-up wink light manually. The latter is true for all of the creative modes. &#8220;P&#8221; is the mode I use the most.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tv<\/strong> is for &#8220;Shutter Speed Priority.&#8221; Set the shutter speed to get the effect you desire. Long exposure time to blur motion and short exposure time to freeze it. Aperture and other settings are automatic. I have this mode set to a very fast shutter speed for normal use in case I see something moving that I wish to freeze. Switching modes is almost instantaneous while in the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Av<\/strong> is for &#8220;Aperture Priority.&#8221; Use a narrower aperture for greater depth of field. I have this set to a wide aperture to be able to capture objects with a blurred background. It&#8217;s good for portraits of people and photos of critters in the desert with attention focused on the subject and drawn away from the background.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong> is for &#8220;Manual Settings.&#8221; The photographer can select both aperture and shutter speed settings. I keep this set for the occasional solar filter photography I do: very fast shutter speed and wide aperture seem to work best with the solar filter I use.<\/p>\n<p>In the few months I have had this camera, I have tried to delve into the myriad functions and modes, but after this short time there is still much to be discovered. Regardless of that, I am very well pleased with the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in possession of my Canon EOS Rebel SL1 since last December. Damsel has had Canon EOS Rebels for years, but this one is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-photography","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}