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AdvancedPhotography
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SELECTING THE FOCUS AREA
FOCUS SETTINGS
1Unlock the 4-direction button.
21Press “d”, “c”, “a” or “b” to select the focus
area.
2Once you have specified the focus area, lock the
4-direction button to prevent accidental improper
use.
hThe 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.
hWhen 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.
1Position the selected focus area over the object
on which you want to focus.
2Turn 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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