α Handbook
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- Introduction of functions
- Before use
- Functions list
- Preparing the camera
- Shooting and viewing images
- Selecting a shooting mode
- Switching the recording information display
- Adjusting the focus
- Adjusting the brightness of the image
- Using the drive mode
- Advanced shooting
- Using the flash (sold separately)
- Flash modes available
- Flash Compensation
- Flash control
- FEL lock
- Setting ISO
- Compensating for the brightness and contrast automatically (D-Range)
- Setting the image processing
- Adjusting the color tones (White balance)
- Setting image size
- Setting the aspect ratio and image quality
- Detecting faces
- Smile Shutter
- Zooming
- Reducing the noise in an image
- Setting the color space
- Movie recording setup
- Advanced playback
- Setup of the camera
- Viewing images on a computer
- Troubleshooting/Others
- Index
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Selecting the drive mode
Using the drive mode
The EV scale in bracket shooting
* Ambient light: Any light other than the flash light that shines on the scene
for an extended period of time, such as natural light, a light bulb, or a
fluorescent light.
• In bracket shooting, the same number of indices as the number of
recordable images is displayed on the EV scale.
• When the bracket shooting starts, the indices that indicate already
recorded images start to disappear one by one.
*MK
–1
: a unit to indicate the color conversion quality in color temperature filters (The
same value as “Mired.”).
Ambient light* bracket
0.3 steps, 3 shots
Exposure compensation 0
Flash bracket
0.7 steps, 3 shots
Flash compensation –1.0
Viewfinder
LCD screen (When
[DISP Button(Monitor)]
is set to [For
viewfinder])
Shown in the top row. Shown in the bottom row.
WB bracket
1 (Drive) button t (WB bracket) t Select the
desired setting with b/B on the multi-selector
• When Lo is selected, it is shifted by 10 MK
–1
*, and when Hi is selected, it is
shifted by 20 MK
–1
.
2 Adjust the focus and shoot the subject.










