Sony DSLR-A700 Manual

You can manually adjust the shutter speed and aperture values.
This mode is useful when you maintain the setting of the shutter speed and the aperture value 
or when you use an exposure meter.

1

Set the mode dial to M.

2

Select a shutter speed using the front control dial and an aperture value using the rear control 
dial.

• “BULB” (Bulb shooting) is indicated next to “30” (page 43).

• In the manual exposure mode, even when [ISO sensitivity] (page 64) is set to [AUTO], it is fixed to ISO 

200.

• You can exchange their functions of the front and rear control dials with [Ctrl dial setup] in the 

 Custom 

menu (page 107).

• When the flash is pulled up, the flash fires regardless of the amount of ambient light (page 73).
• The 

 (Camera-shake warning) indicator does not appear in the manual exposure mode.

Front control dial

Mode dial

Rear control dial

Front control 
dial

Rear control 
dial