The Sony Alpha NEX-6

Chapter 6: Manual Operation of the Camera

Introduction

Whereas chapter 5 dealt with taking over partial control of camera settings, this chapter is about taking complete control of the camera and manually fine-tuning its settings.

There are times when you want the exposure and focus to be fixed to a constant value. For example, suppose you want to take a panoramic shot the old-fashioned way without using the NEX-6’s Sweep Panorama feature. To do this, mount the camera on a tripod, set the exposure to manual, and take a series of overlapping pictures by panning the camera with the tripod head. The focus and aperture must be fixed and cannot be ...