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Advanced
Photography
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SELECTING THE FOCUS AREA
FOCUS SETTINGS
1
Unlock the 4-direction button.
2
1
Press “
d
”, “
c
”, “
a
” or “
b
” to select the focus
area.
2
Once you have specified the focus area, lock the
4-direction button to prevent accidental improper
use.
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The specified focus area is automatically
illuminated in red according to the brightness of
the subject.
CSM
3: The specified focus area is automatically illuminated, but you can change the settings
so that the illumination is disabled or is no longer dependent on the subject brightness
(
➡
P.111).
CSM
4: Normally, you can only select a focus area by pressing the arrow on the 4-direction
button that points towards that focus area. However, you can set camera operation so
that when the right-hand focus area is selected, pressing “
c
” on the 4-direction button
selects the left-hand focus area. This means you can switch between focus areas on
opposite sides without having to press different sides of the 4-direction button
(
➡
P.111).
MANUAL FOCUS
FOCUS SETTINGS
Use Manual focus in situations where autofocus may not work as expected (
➡
P.39) or a lens other
than an AF Nikkor lens (
➡
P.20) is attached.
Focus aid
Focus the camera by turning the focusing ring on
the lens until the image can be seen clearly in the
matt surface of the viewfinder screen.
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When using a lens with the A-M select function,
set the switch/ring to “
M
” to focus manually. If
“
M
/
A
” (autofocus with manual priority) is available
with your lens, Manual focus is possible either
with the switch/ring set to “
M
” or “
M
/
A
”. See the
instruction manual of your lens for details.
This allows you to check the focus of your shot
using the focus indicator “
●
” in the viewfinder.
You can use Focus Aid when the lens mounted has
an f-stop setting brighter than f/5.6.
1
Position the selected focus area over the object
on which you want to focus.
2
Turn the focusing ring on the lens.
Press the shutter button down halfway. When the
shot is in focus, the focus indicator “
●
” lights.
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Focus indicator
◆
To make focusing easier on this camera, the range in which the focus indicator “
●
” lights is set to a
fixed size. As a result, the camera does not react to slight movements of the focusing ring, thereby
avoiding flickering in the focus indicator “
●
”.
However, this means that the focusing position at the wide-angle setting is very slightly different from
the focusing position at the telephoto setting, so that the shot may not be optimally focused even when
the focus indicator “
●
” is lit. In this situation, you can focus precisely by positioning the focusing ring in
the middle of the range in which the focus indicator “
●
” lights.
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