User manual NIKON D2H

[. . . ] En The Nikon Guide to Digital Photography with the DIGITAL CAMERA Product Documentation The documentation for this product includes the manuals listed below. Please be sure to read all instructions thoroughly to get the most from your camera. Quick Start Guide The Quick Start Guide takes you through the process of unpacking and setting up your Nikon digital camera, taking your first photographs, and transferring them to your computer. Guide to Digital Photography The Guide to Digital Photography (this manual) provides complete operating instructions for your camera. [. . . ] For bounce-flash or close-up photography, the flash head can be rotated through 90 ° above and 7 ° below the horizontal, 180 ° left, and 90 ° right. Auto power zoom (24­105 mm) ensures that the illuminating is adjusted in accord with lens focal length. The built-in wide panel can be used for illuminating angles of 14 mm and 17 mm. The SB-800 is equipped with an illuminator to assist in adjusting settings in the dark. Custom settings are available for fine-tuning all aspects of flash operation. 107 FV Lock This feature is used to lock flash output, allowing photographs to be recomposed without changing the flash level. This ensures that flash output is appropriate to the subject even when the subject is not positioned in the center of the frame. Flash output is adjusted automatically for any changes in sensitivity (ISO equivalency), aperture, and Speedlight zoom head position. FV Lock is available with i-TTL and auto aperture flash control, Advanced Wireless Lighting, and Auto FP High-Speed Sync. To use FV Lock: Taking Photographs--Flash Photography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Select FV Lock or FV Lock/Lens data for Custom Setting f4 (FUNC. Mount an SB-800 Speedlight on the camera accessory shoe. Turn the SB-800 on and set the flash mode to TTL or AA (see the SB-800 instruction manual for details). Position the subject in the center of the frame and press the shutter-release button halfway to focus. The SB-800 will emit a monitor preflash to determine the appropriate flash level. Flash output will be locked at this level and FV Lock icons ( and ) will appear in the control panel and viewfinder. Recompose the photograph and press the shutter-release button the rest of the way down to shoot. If desired, additional pictures can be taken without releasing FV Lock. button to release FV Lock and confirm that the FV Lock icons ( and ) are no longer displayed in the control panel and viewfinder. 108 AF-Assist for Multi-Area AF The SB-800 features AF-assist illumination linked to the D2H focus areas, allowing autofocus to be used even at night, regardless of the subject's position in the frame. AF-assist illumination can be used in all AF-area modes, including single-area AF, dynamic-area AF, group dynamic-AF, and dynamicarea AF with closest-subject priority. If the subject is poorly lit, the AF-assist illuminator will light automatically when single-servo AF is used in combination with an AF-Nikkor lens (if a lens with an angle greater than 35 mm is used, the illuminator may not light if the focus area at the left or right edge of the frame are selected). i-TTL Flash Control When used with the D2H and set to TTL, the SB-800 automatically uses one of the following types of i-TTL flash control: Flash control Description Taking Photographs--Flash Photography Speedlight emits series of nearly invisible preflashes (monitor preflashes) immediately before main flash. Preflashes reflected from objects in all areas of frame are picked up by five-segment TTL flash control sensor or 1, 005-pixel RGB sensor and are analyzed in comi-TTL Balanced bination with information from matrix metering system to adjust Fill-Flash for flash output for natural balance between main subject and ambiDigital SLR ent background lighting. When type G or D lens is used, distance information is included when calculating flash output. [. . . ] See also Speedlight bracketing, 98 Flash Color Information Communication, 107 Flash-ready indicator, 117 Flash sync mode, 113 Flexible program, 87. See also Exposure mode, programmed auto Focal plane mark, 3, 83 Focus. See autofocus; focus mode; manual focus Focus area (focus brackets), 10, 74­79 Focus lock, 80­81 Focus mode, 72­73 Focusing screen, 232 Folders, 150, 165, 191 Format, 207. See also Memory card, formatting FV lock, 108, 201 G Group dynamic-AF. [. . . ]