On point-and-shoot cameras, however, the mode dial's location is less standard.

Finally, Sony was awfully miserly with its mode dial.

They incorporate very few manual controls and lack even a mode dial with canned settings for twilight, sports, and so on.

The more compact point-and-shoot cameras, and cameras offering a great many modes, do not have mode dials, using menus instead.

Externally, the camera body is almost unchanged from the Pentax K-7 (the mode dial on the left side is slightly higher).

A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode.

The Panasonic DMC-GF2 uses the touch screen to provide mode selection, as such that there isn't a mode dial on the camera.

The Canon EOS 30D features a Mode Dial on the top which selects the shooting mode.

Digital SLR cameras, along with most other digital cameras, generally have a mode dial to access standard camera settings or automatic scene-mode settings.

On most dSLRs and SLR-like bridge cameras, the mode dial is located at the top of the camera, to one side of the flash/viewfinder hump.

What appeared to be a shutter speed dial on autoexposure M-series SLRs was actually the exposure mode dial: AUTO meant aperture priority and M was for manual.

The keyboard has a trigger mode dial selector switch with 5 different trigger modes as well as a momentary switch for retriggering of envelopes during sustained notes, plus three on/off sliding switches.

The C-211 features 3X optical zoom that is easily controlled with a dial on its back above a panel that is covered with well-placed and well-marked buttons, a mode dial and the L.C.D. screen.

Shutter priority is often abbreviated as S (with Nikon, Minolta, Konica Minolta, Sony, Olympus, Sigma) or Tv (for "time value" with Canon, Pentax, Leica) on a camera mode dial.

Aperture priority, often abbreviated A or Av (for Aperture value) on a camera mode dial, is a setting on some cameras that allows the user to choose a specific aperture value while the camera selects a shutter speed to match.

Although the ME F was a highly electronic camera normally dependent on battery power, it had a backup ability to operate without batteries, though in a very limited fashion: completely manual mechanical control with two shutter speeds (1/125th second, marked 125X, and Bulb; both accessed from the mode dial) and without the light meter or AF.

A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode.