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Mode dial
showing several common modes. Actual dials may have more or fewer. DSLR with the mode dial located near the flash/viewfinder hump. DSC-RX100 II, with two distinct automatic modes: "intelligent auto" (green "i📷") and "superior auto" (golden "i📷+") A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, including DSLR and mirrorless cameras, support modes, selectable either by a rotary dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot cameras which support modes a range of scene types is offered. On DSLR and mirrorless cameras, mode dials usually offer access to manual settings. The more compact point-and-shoot cameras, and cameras offering a great many modes, do not have mode dials, using menus instead, while others, such as the Nikon Z50II, use a combination of a single scene setting, followed by a menu selection of the specific type of scene. Some interchangeable lenses themselves offer control over things such as aperture, reducing the need for mode support in the camera body.
Article summary
showing several common modes. Actual dials may have more or fewer. DSLR with the mode dial located near the flash/viewfinder hump. DSC-RX100 II, with two distinct automatic modes: "intelligent auto" (green "i📷") and "superior auto" (golden "i📷+") A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, including DSLR and mirrorless cameras, support modes, selectable either by a rotary dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot cameras which support modes a range of scene types is offered. On DSLR and mirrorless cameras, mode dials usually offer access to manual settings. The more compact point-and-shoot cameras, and cameras offering a great many modes, do not have mode dials, using menus instead, while others, such as the Nikon Z50II, use a combination of a single scene setting, followed by a menu selection of the specific type of scene. Some interchangeable lenses themselves offer control over things such as aperture, reducing the need for mode support in the camera body.
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