Digital Camera User Manual
Recommended lenses
AF
Nikkor lenses. To blur the background, use a telephoto lens
with a maximum aperture
of
f/2.8 or brighter. However,
in
close-range shooting, use wider angle lenses to reduce red-
eye.
Speed light
Nikon
S8-25
Speedlight Unit.
U
se
ISO 100 to 400 film. Other films may cause overexposed
background.
If you set the Portrait Program with Red-Eye Reduction with
other Speedlight and tum on the Speed light,
~~
mark blinks.
Recommended camera settings
Metering system
~
for Matrix·
Focus area
[£]
for
Spot··
Focus mode S for Single Servo AF
Film
advance mode
[[)
for single-frame shooting
Flash sync
~~
for Red-Eye Reduction···
'Automatically
selected.
"Vari
-
Program
automatically
sets
the
camera
to
Wide
-
area
focus
.
However,
when
the
Nikon
58
-
25
AF
Speedlight
is
connected
to
the
camera
and
turned
on
,
the
focus
area
automatically
swstches
to
Spot
.
In
this
case,
[iJ)
blinks
in
the
LCD
panel
,
with
0
appearing
in
the
viewfinder
display.
'''Automatically
selected
and
cannot
be
cancelled.
Procedure
For flash shooting procedure, see
S8-25's
instruction manual.
However, with Red-Eye Reduction function, note that
it
is
only
at the fourth f
la
sh
that the shutter
is
released. So hold the
camera steadily and make
su
re your subject keeps still during
all four flashes.
To further reduce red-eye
• Have the sub
je
ct look away from the
len
s,
toward a bright
light.
• When shooting indoors, make the room as bright
as
possible.
Note that red-eye tends to be more pronounced with children
and cannot be
as effectively reduced.
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