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Doc ID# 1028Nikon_5000_help - Revision 3-26-02
Nikon Coolpix 5000 Help
http://www.quickceph.com/docs/1028Nikon_5000_help.pdf
Please Note:
We only recommend this camera. We do not manufacture it. If you have technical difficulties,
please contact Nikon Support at
1-800-645-6689
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We recommend pur-
chasing an additional
Nikon EN-EL1
rechargeable Li-ion
battery. The pro-
grammed settings
will be lost if the bat-
teries are taken out
of the camera for
more than 2 hours.
Adjusting the Metering:
Metering allows the camera to determine how much light is necessary for
illuminating a certain picture. You should use Center-Weighted Metering
for intraoral pictures, as it allows you to preserve background detail while
providing the right amount of light output for the teeth. To select this, click
on the Menu button on the back of the camera and use the Selector button
to navigate to the Metering option, as shown below. When Center-
Weighted is highlighted, push on the right arrow of the Selector button to
select.
Adjust the Speedlight settings:
To eliminate overexposure for intraoral pictures, you can adjust the flash
output of Nikon’s Speedlight. To do this, click on the Menu button on the
back of the camera. Then, click on the left arrow of the Selector Button.
Scroll down to the “S” option and click to the right. The screen will show
“Setup 1” at the top. Scroll down past the last option on this page to get to
“Speedlight Opt.” Click to the right and select “Variable Power”.
We recommend using a setting of -1.3 for frontal and buccal intraorals.
However, you may need to adjust this value to fit the lighting in your
office.
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Selector Button
After all of the settings
have been selected, the
Control Panel at the top of
the camera should resem-
ble the image shown
below.
Manual Mode with:
Macro setting
Anytime Flash
ISO 400 setting
Aperture Priority
Center Weighted Metering
Reduced Flash output
Tips for Taking Intraoral Images
To take intraoral images, zoom-in the lens fully and physically move the camera away from the
patient’s mouth until the image comes into focus. This is recommended because the flash is further
from the patient’s mouth, decreasing the possibility of overexposure. Also, this gives you more room
to crop the image, as well as room to position the rectractors and mirrors. We recommend taking the
frontal and buccal intraoral pictures about 8 to 10 inches from the patient’s mouth. Although this may
seem far, with the camera’s high resolution, you will not lose clarity when cropping the images. When
you are taking the frontal and buccal intraoral pictures, make sure to take the picture at a 90º angle to
the teeth. Also, try to align the horizontal plane of the camera with the patient’s occlusal plane. This
will save time, as you will not have to rotate the image inside Quick Ceph later.
For the occlusal pictures, we recommend taking the images approximately 10 inches away from the
patient’s mouth. Due to the height of the flash, taking the image closer would result in the patient’s
lips obscuring the flash.
Occlusal pictures tend to be darker than the frontal and buccal pictures. We recommend
increasing the aperture of these pictures by one or two F-stops by rotating the Command
Dial slightly to the left. You can also set the camera to the A-mode and turn on the
Macro feature. For upper occlusal images taken with a mirror, we recommend flipping
the camera upside down to eliminate shadowing. Please remember to horizontally flip
the image when you import it into Quick Ceph. Otherwise, the image will be displayed
horizontaly inverted.
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If the occlusal pic-
tures appear too
dark, you should set
the camera to the A-
mode and turn on
the Macro. This
adds more light to
the occlusal pictures.
Command Dial
Adjusting Images While in QCIPro and QC2000
C
Images taken while the camera is flipped upside down can be rotated easily in QC2000 and QCIPro.
For information on image editing, please see Chapter 2 in the Quick Ceph Manual (downloadable
from www.quickceph.com).