Chapter 4: Automatic Settings

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Introduction

How you use the Sony a7/a7R depends on your expertise, your desire to control aspects of picture taking, and your creativity. Even if you do not know such photographic terms as f-stop, shutter speed, ISO, or EV, you can still take technically excellent pictures and movies using the automatic modes. As mentioned in Chapter 2, automated camera settings can take excellent pictures; however, the settings you use depend on the type of subject (i.e. landscape, person) in your image. With the Intelligent and Superior Auto modes, the camera software automatically tries to identify the subject and match it to ...

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