Canon PowerShot S30 - Manual (Page 70)

68 Shooting - Selecting Particular Effects
Setting the Aperture
When you set the aperture in the aperture-priority AE mode, the camera
automatically selects a shutter speed to match the brightness. Selecting a lower
aperture value (opening the aperture) allows you to fade the background and
create a beautiful portrait. A higher aperture value (closing it) brings the entire
range from foreground to background into focus. The larger the aperture value,
the greater the range of the image brought into clear focus.
1
Turn the shooting mode dial to .
• The aperture setting appears on the LCD monitor if it is
on.
2
Select a value using B or A on the
multicontroller.
3
Shoot the image.
• The correct exposure has been set if the shutter
speed and aperture settings show in white.