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Specifications

• Viewfinder

Type:

Eye-level pentamirror

Coverage:

Vertical/Horizontal approx. 95% (with Eye point approx. 21 mm)

Magnification:

Approx. 0.8x (-1 m-1with 50mm lens at infinity)

Eye point:

Approx. 21 mm (from eyepiece lens center at -1 m-1)

Built-in dioptric adjustment: Approx. -2.5 - +0.5 m-1(dpt)

Focusing screen:

Fixed, Precision Matte

Mirror:

Quick-return type

Depth-of-field preview:

Enabled with Custom Function setting

• Autofocus

Type:

TTL secondary image-registration, phase detection

AF points:

9-point (Cross-type AF sensitive to f/5.6 with center AF

 

point)

 

Focusing brightness range: EV 0

- 18

(Center AF point)

 

EV 1

- 18

(Other AF points)

 

(With One-Shot AF, at room temperature, ISO 100)

AF operation:

One-Shot AF, AI Servo AF, AI Focus AF

AF-assist beam:

Small series of flashes fired by built-in flash

• Exposure Control

Metering modes:

63-zone TTL full-aperture metering

 

• Evaluative metering (linked to all AF points)

 

• Partial metering (approx. 10% of viewfinder at center)

 

• enter-weighted average metering

Brightness metering range: EV 1 - 20 (at room temperature, ISO 100)

Exposure control:

Program AE (Scene Intelligent Auto, Flash Off, Creative

 

Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports, Night

 

Portrait, Program), Shutter-priority AE, Aperture-priority

ISO speed:

AE, Manual exposure

Basic Zone modes*: ISO 100 - ISO 3200 set automatically

(Recommended

* Portrait: ISO 100

exposure index)

Creative Zone modes: ISO 100 - ISO 6400 set manually

 

(whole-stop increments), ISO 100 - ISO 6400 set

 

automatically, maximum ISO speed settable for ISO

 

Auto, or expandable to “H” (equivalent to ISO 12800)

Exposure

Manual: ±5 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments

compensation:

AEB:

±2 stops in 1/3- or 1/2-stop increments (can be

 

combined with manual exposure compensation)

AE lock:

Auto:

Applied in One-Shot AF with evaluative

 

 

metering when focus is achieved

 

Manual: By AE lock button