3. Capture Mode

The user interface on the R967 is nearly identical to the one on the R827, so a press of the Menu key brings up a five-tabbed menu system. The tabs, arranged at the top of the screen, provide access to the options that are displayed in a vertical column along the left side of the screen. The first tab, Capture, has the most options of any of the top-level menu items - 17 to be exact.

The options are arranged in a logical order with the ones you're most likely to want to change being at the top of the list. This menu contains all of the same features we really liked in the R827, such as three mode (exposure, adaptive, color) bracketing, exposure compensation (+/- 3.0 in 0.3 increments), settings for auto focus and auto exposure metering, so we'll just focus on the new shooting modes.

The R967 also keeps all 14 automatic shooting modes found on the R827. One of our favorites, panoramic shooting with in-camera stitching, worked as flawlessly as it did on the R827.

Three photos stitched together in panorama mode (click to enlarge)

And, the Sunset mode did, indeed, add warmth and saturation to our test sunset photos.

Sunset taken in Sunset Mode

Sunset taken in Auto Mode