Does p gear mean exposure mode?

The P position of the camera means automatic exposure mode. P gear can be seen as an upgrade from Auto gear. Compared to the Auto mode, all exposure is left to the camera.

In P mode, after automatically selecting a set of speed and aperture combinations, you can also manually control the exposure through exposure compensation, which can be regarded as adding a little manual function to the fully automatic. If you set the exposure compensation to 0 when shooting, there is no difference between P mode and automatic mode when shooting. For photography beginners, the biggest benefit of P mode is that it allows you to understand the operation of exposure compensation and the usage skills in actual shooting.

Since P mode is an automatic exposure mode, the camera will only automatically adjust the aperture, shutter and ISO according to its own algorithm to obtain a normally exposed picture, so the camera only considers exposure issues. As we all know, if the shutter speed is too slow, lower than the safe shutter speed of 1/60 second, the photos we take will be easily blurred. So at this time, we need to prioritize the camera's shutter speed when the exposure is normal. This ensures that the photos we take are not blurry. This requires TV mode shutter priority.