A/S/P/M and some of the personalized settings
BUT TODAY...
Aside from the dial you may find these symbols together:
Macro- flower
Landscape- mountain
MF- manual focus
The macro mode will be used for close-ups.
These close-ups can be anything within 10cm.
Say we are taking pictures of a flower.
When you start to use macro mode you'll notice a few things. First
it's harder to focus. Your camera may struggle especially when
you've just taken a shot at infinity, because the focusing system
has to work out that the really blurred object is actually what you
want to shoot. This is worse when you've moved too close and the
camera then couldn't focus on the subject even if it wanted to. So
don't expect to see a bee and get an instant shot before it buzzes
off. In such instances it's safer to focus up on another similar distance
subject such as your hand close up or nearby flower then at least
you'll have the camera prepared. Also the amount of focus is
reduced, so when you look at a flower the front petals may be in focus,
but the back won't be. This is known as depth-of-field. The more of the
subject that's in focus, the greater the depth-of-field. Depth-of-field
is controlled by the camera's aperture. Most digital cameras are fully
automatic and you cannot change this. If your camera has an
aperture-priority mode (look at the dial above.. does yours have
this?) you can switch to that and select a smaller aperture, and
on many cameras you'll notice the LCD view change so that the subject
appears sharper from front to back.
