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Manual settings - shutter speed not indicated

Long story short, in manual mode, the left-right arrow indicators for the aperture settings still appear on the LCD, but the up-down arrows for the shutter speed suddenly stopped appearing, and now I can't change that setting.

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Shut down the camera - remove batteries, leave for an hour- reinsert batteries- Did it recover? If no get onto the Sony Technical Support Team - This indicates a firmware failure which they and only they can sort.

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How does aperture setting affect a photograph?

The aperture is the opening in the lens through which light passes to the image sensor. Changing the aperture setting allows you to control the depth of field of a photograph. When the aperture is opened to a widersetting, (indicated by a lower f-stop number) more light is passed to the imagesensor, creating more shallow depth of field. Closing the aperture (indicatedby a higher f-stop number) allows less light to pass to the image sensor,creating wider depth of field.

NOTE: The aperture setting is one of three primary settings usedto control the overall exposure of a photograph. The other two primary settingsare ISO and shutter speed. Because the three settings work together to produce the overall exposure for a photograph, changingthe aperture setting will require complimentary changes to either the ISO or shutter speed to produce a properly exposed photograph. These changes will bemade automatically by the camera in the Auto, Program, Aperture-priority andShutter-priority modes.

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Set the mode dial to M and turn the control dial to set the value.
• To set the shutter speed: Turn the control dial.
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If you want to set the shutter speed and aperture yourself, turn the mode dial to M for Manual. Press the +/- button. Press cursor-up/down to set the shutter speed, cursor-left/right to set the aperture.

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I cannot find a link to anything other than a German manual, but the diagrams and a bit of mental application will go a long way if you don't understand German.

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