Mode dial

Generic mode dial for digital cameras showing several common modes. Actual dials may have more or fewer.
Some dials have more modes.
A Kodak DSLR with the mode dial located near the flash/viewfinder hump.
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II, with two distinct automatic modes: "intelligent auto" (green "i📷") and "superior auto" (golden "i📷+")

A mode dial or camera dial is a dial used on digital cameras to change the camera's mode. Most digital cameras, including DSLR and mirrorless cameras, support modes, selectable either by a rotary dial or from a menu. On point-and-shoot cameras which support modes a range of scene types is offered. On DSLR and mirrorless cameras, mode dials usually offer access to manual settings. The more compact point-and-shoot cameras, and cameras offering a great many modes, do not have mode dials, using menus instead, while others, such as the Nikon Z50II, use a combination of a single scene setting, followed by a menu selection of the specific type of scene. Some interchangeable lenses themselves offer control over things such as aperture, reducing the need for mode support in the camera body.

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