Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Menus Setup and Playback Shooting,

AF area mode

When AF area mode is set to Center while Metering is set to Spot AF area, the Metering setting will automatically change to Matrix. When a setting other than Center is selected for AF area mode, the Metering setting automatically reverts back to Spot AF area.

Noise reduction

•When Auto of Noise reduction is applied with Continuous set to an option other than Single or Intvl timer shooting, or with Auto bracketing set to an option other than Off, noise reduction will not be performed.

•Selecting On for Noise reduction changes all modes to Single, when an option other than Intvl timer shooting is selected for Continuous, and Auto bracketing is changed to Off.

Wide-angle converter

Selecting On for Wide-angle converter changes the flash mode to W (off ).

Distortion control

•When Distortion control is set to On, Continuous is automatically set to Single and Auto bracketing is set to Off.

•Even when the Distortion control option is changed back to Off, Continuous will still be set to Single and Auto bracketing will still be set to Off.

•Distortion control cannot be used if the image quality setting is set to NRW (RAW), NRW (RAW) + Fine, NRW (RAW) + Normal or NRW (RAW) + Basic.

Built-in flash, Speedlights (available separately from Nikon)

Built-in flash and Speedlight SB-400, SB-600, SB-800, or SB-900 flash unit (available separately from Nikon) operation is restricted, as shown below, depending upon the applied Continuous setting.

Continuous mode

Built-in flash

Flash units*

Single

Available

Available

Continuous

Off

Available

BSS

Off

Not available

Continuous flash

Available

Not available

Multi-shot 16

Off

Available

Intvl timer shooting

Available

Available

When a flash unit (available separately from Nikon) is mounted on the camera’s accessory shoe, the built-in flash is automatically set to W.

*When shooting using Continuous, Multi-shot 16 or Auto bracketing with the flash mode set to V(red-eye reduction) (A32, 34), only the low intensity repeat flashes before the main flash will take place for red eye reduction.

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