The camera has standard Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual Modes as well as portrait, landscape, action, macro, backlit, and scene mode.
Of course you still have the standard exposure modes, program, aperture priority shutter priority and manual, full auto, scene and guide mode.
First, new versions of Apple's two photo programs, Aperture and iPhoto, will use the same database.
Using touch controls on your phone, you can zoom in and out; take a picture by remote control; and adjust the exposure, automatic and program modes, plus aperture priority mode, manual focus and white-balance options.
Probably the simplest way to use it is to create albums in Apple's iPhoto or Aperture programs on a laptop and then sync these to the iPad, which will show images in the order you chose in iPhoto.
You can use any of the four PSAM (Program, Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority, Manual) modes, detailed below.
Professional photographers will use any of the PSAM modes (program, shutter-priority, aperture-priority, manual), or even all of them on the same day.
For the first time, photographers can use Art Filters in all shooting modes, program auto, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual modes and movies with expanded control.
It supports traditional desktop software programs, like Adobe Lightroom, Aperture and iPhoto, for example, as well as online services like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa and Instagram.
When not actively using your camera keep it ready for whatever may present itself by leaving it in fully-automated program mode, or perhaps in aperture-priority mode with a reasonable default aperture such as f/8.
As far as sharing some of the same features as Nikon's entry level dSLRs, you'll find the familiar shutter priority, aperture priority and program modes.
