Operation Manual

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BASIC
OPERATION 1
This section features the settings for most
common picture-taking situations using
AUTO mode (a) to enable easy operation
even for beginners.
Lens attached G-type AF Nikkor (p. 18)
Focus mode AF (autofocus) (p. 24)
Focus area
Dynamic AF Mode with Closest-
Subject Priority (p. 24)
Exposure metering system
25-segment 3D Matrix Metering*
(p. 26)
Exposure mode AUTO mode (a) (p. 26)
Flash sync mode Front-Curtain Sync (¡/™)* (p. 92)
Film advance mode Single frame (ı) (p. 79)
Custom setting Default (initial) settings (p. 72)
* Automatically set when a AUTO mode is selected.
Shooting modes/functions explained in this section are as follows:
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Set Date and Time (F75D only)
This camera allows you to imprint Year/Month/Day, Day/Hour/Minute (24-hour
clock), Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year on your picture in any exposure
mode. (For imprinting date/time, see page 42.)
1
Push ¨ button to select one of the date or time displays.
Push SELECT button so section to be corrected starts
blinking.
• Adjusting date and time (Example: year 2003, April 1)
2
Push ADJUST button to change the blinking numbers and after
correction, push SELECT button until the numbers stop blinking.
• Date cannot be set in Day/Hour/Minute
display. To set date, select Year/Month/Day,
Month/Day/Year or Day/Month/Year.
• Set the time in Day/Hour/Minute display.
• Each time you push the ADJUST button, year
section moves up from 98 to 49 (back to 98
after 49).
• To change the numerical indication rapidly,
hold the ADJUST button down for more than
1 sec.
• Push SELECT button until the date/time
display stops blinking. When the imprint
indicator
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appears in the data imprint
LCD panel, the setting is complete.
Quartz Date power source
Batteries in the camera body also power the quartz date. Set the date and time after
installing batteries for the first time. When changing batteries, date and time remain in
the quartz date memory up to approx. 30 minutes without batteries. If the date and
time data are lost, reset them. Note that the time the data remains in the memory
becomes shorter at low temperatures.
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