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John Wade Regular AP contributor John is a freelance writer and photographer who has written for photographic magazines in the UK, America and Australia. He has also written, edited and contributed to more than 30 books on photographic history and techniques. Find him at www.johnwade.org

How many and what kind of exposure modes does your camera have? Program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual; portraits, sport, landscapes, night and macro photography… maybe even more? What about metering? Does your camera offer average, spot, centre-weighted, matrix, multi-segment? How about autofocus? Single, continuous, automatic, manual, hybrid, dynamic? Can you change the sensitivity from shot to shot

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