Photography settings

Get help with composition

Let your camera improve your photography by generating an alternative photo with well-balanced composition alongside your original.

Smart composition automatically levels your shot and applies the rule of thirds concept to offset your subject, drawing the viewer’s eye into the photo.

  1. On the viewfinder, touch Settings.
  2. Turn Smart composition on or off .

Use a grid for composition

Enable a grid in your viewfinder to better frame your shots and check your camera tilt.

  1. On the viewfinder, touch Settings.
  2. Turn Assistive grid on .

To get rid of grid lines, turn Assistive grid off .

Use a leveler for composition

Add a leveler in the middle of the viewfinder to take shots that are parallel to the horizon.

  1. On the viewfinder, touch Settings.
  2. Turn Leveler on .

Get suggested modes and scenes

Enhance your photos with automatic tuning and AI scene detection.

Your camera can suggest changing modes, if it determines that a shot could be improved. It can also optimize the exposure, contrast, saturation, and color when it detects the following scenes:

  • Fireworks
  • Food
  • Motion
  • Holiday lights
  • Sunset/Sunrise
  • Moon

To turn these suggestions on or off:

  1. On the viewfinder, touch Settings.
  2. Turn Shot optimization on or off .

When Shot optimization is on and you're framing a photo:

  • If your camera detects a scene, you'll see a bar with the name of the scene (like Food). To use the enhancements, just take the photo. If you don't want the enhancements, turn the scene off first.
  • If your camera suggests changing modes, touch the suggestion to change modes before taking the photo. Or, to use the current mode, touch .

Use mirroring

For the front (selfie) camera, when you look in the viewfinder, you'll see a mirror image: left and right are reversed, and text looks backwards. You can control, however, whether the photos you take match the viewfinder or whether they're flipped.

  1. On the viewfinder, touch Settings.

  2. For Selfie photo mirror:

    • If you want photos to match what you see in the viewfinder, turn it on .
    • If you want text in photos to read normally and the image to be flipped, turn it off .