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
27
List of icons on the screen
Before use
B
C
Remaining battery
warning (53)
Display Indication
Drive mode (110)
Flash mode (115)/Red-
eye reduction (40)
Focus mode (91)
AF area (95)
Object tracking (95)
Face Detection (141)/
Smile Shutter (145)
Metering mode (109)
AWB
7500K
A5 G5
White balance (Auto,
Preset, Custom, Color
temperature, Color filter)
(133)
D-Range Optimizer
(126)/Auto HDR (127)
+3 +3
+3
Creative Style (130)/
Contrast, Saturation,
Sharpness
Display Indication
Picture Effect (129)
Auto Portrait Framing
(143)
Display Indication
EV scale (83, 106, 113)
Exposure compensation
(106)/Metered Manual
(83)
Flash compensation (120)
REC 0:12 Recording time of the
movie (m:s)
z Focus (63, 93)
1/250 Shutter speed (80)
F3.5 Aperture (78)
ISO400
ISO AUTO
ISO sensitivity (124)
AE lock (108)/FEL lock
(122)
GPS information (SLT-
A99V only)
35° 37’
32”N
139° 44’
31”W
Latitude and longitude
display (SLT-A99V only)
Auto HDR image
warning (127)
Picture Effect error (130)
Histogram (89)
2012-1-1
10:37PM
Date of recording
Display Indication