Nikon D1 Fast Track Manual

Fast Track Guide
D1
Digital Camera
This Fast Track Guide
provides a brief introduction
1 Insert an EN-4 battery pack
to using your D1 at the most
common settings. Refer-
Turn the camera off before insert-
ences are provided to the ing the battery pack. To insert,
turn the battery pack latch to the
sections of the User's
open position, slide the battery
Manual where more com-
pack into the camera, and lock it
plete information may be
in place. Turn the camera on and
check the battery indicator in the
found. Please read all
control panel on top of the cam-
instructions fully.
era.
"First Steps: Insert the Battery"
A B
6 Insert a memory card 7 Select single-frame shooting
The D1 uses CompactFlash mem- The D1 offers a choice of continu-
ory cards to store photographs ous and single-frame shooting. To
(think of it as electronic film). After select single-frame shooting, hold
turning the camera off, open the down the mode-dial lock release
door covering the card-slot cover and turn the mode dial to S.
release button (A1) and press the
card-slot cover release button (A2)
to open the card slot (A3). After
inserting a memory card, fold the
eject button over and close the
card-slot cover (B).
"First Steps: Insert the Memory Card" "Camera Settings: The Mode Dial"
A
B
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12 Set the AF area mode Select the center focus area
Unlock the focus-area selector (A)
Holding down the AF area mode
and press the arrows until the
button [+], rotate the main com-
mand dial until [ ] (single area AF) center focus area is selected in
the viewfinder and the control
appears in the control panel on
top of the camera. panel on top of the camera (B).
Return the focus-area selector
lock to the locked position.
Nikon Digital Camera D1
"Camera Settings: AF Area Mode" "Camera Settings: Focus Area"
2 Attach a lens 3 Reset settings to defaults
Turn the camera off and mount a When using the camera for the first
lens on the camera as shown time, you may want to clear chang-
above. Set aperture to its mini- es to settings made by previous
mum setting (largest f-number) users. After turning the camera on,
and lock the aperture ring. hold the and
together for more than two seconds
Use a D-Type AF Nikkor lens with
to restore camera settings to their
a built-in CPU to take full advan-
default values. The CUSTOM indi-
tage of camera features.
cator in the rear control panel will
start to blink. To clear changes to
custom settings, release both but-
tons while the indicator is blinking
and then press the buttons again.
"First Steps: Attach the Lens" "Custom Settings: Two-Button Reset"
8 Set image quality to NORMAL 9 Set sensitivity to 200
After turning the camera on, hold Camera sensitivity (ISO equiva-
the button down and turn the lency) can be set to 200, 400, 800,
main command dial until NORM or 1600 (ISO equivalent). To
(normal) appears in the rear con- choose a sensitivity of 200, hold
trol panel. the button down and turn the
main command dial. The sensitivi-
ty setting will be displayed in the
rear control panel.
"Camera Settings: Image Quality" "Camera Settings: Sensitivity"
14 Choose matrix metering 15 Set the exposure mode to
Hold down the metering selector Hold the MODE button down and
lock release and turn the metering turn the main command dial until
selector to (matrix metering). the exposure-mode indicator in
The matrix metering indicator will the control panel on top of the
appear in the viewfinder when the camera shows (programmed
shutter-release button is pressed auto).
half way.
"Camera Settings: Metering" "Camera Settings: Exposure Mode"
LANGUAGE
D
DEUTSCH
E
ENGLISH
F FRANÇAIS
J
日本語
SET
4 Choose a language for the menus 5 Adjust viewfinder diopter
To choose a language for the The D1 is equipped with diopter
playback mode menus, hold down adjustment to accommodate
the mode-dial lock release and individual differences in vision. To
turn the mode dial to PLAY. Press adjust viewfinder diopter, pull the
buttons down the button to display the diopter knob out and rotate it until
playback menu. Using the focus- the focus brackets in the viewfind-
area selector, select LANGUAGE er are in sharp focus.
from the SET UP sub-menu.
Highlight a language in the LAN-
GUAGE menu (above) and press
the selector to the right to put your
choice into effect.
"First Steps: Choose a Language for the Menus" "Camera Settings: Diopter Adjustment"
10 Set white balance to auto (A) 11 Select single-servo AF
Holding the button down, turn Set the autofocus mode to S
the main command dial until A (single-servo autofocus). In this
(auto white balance) appears in mode, the camera will focus auto-
the rear control panel. matically when the shutter-release
button is pressed half way. The
shutter can only be released when
the camera is in focus.
"Camera Settings: White Balance"
16 Frame a photograph 17 Take a picture
After framing a photograph, press Press the shutter-release button
the shutter-release button half way the rest of the way down to take a
down and confirm that the in-focus picture. The green access lamp
indicator ( ) appears in the view- on the card-slot cover will blink
finder. while the photograph is recorded
to the memory card. Do not turn
the camera off or remove the
memory card until the access
lamp has turned off.
"First Steps: Take a Photograph"
Focus Area
The D1 offers a choice of five focus areas, which
together cover a wide portion of the frame.
Unlock the focus-area selector and press the
arrows until the desired focus area is highlighted
in red in the viewfinder. By choosing focus area
according to the position of your main subject in
the composition, you can focus on an off-center
subject without using focus lock (see below).
Focus Lock
Use focus lock when your subject will not be in one of the five focus
areas in the final composition.
1
Position the subject in the
active focus area and lightly
press the shutter-release
button to confirm focus. In
continuous servo AF, press
the AF/AE lock button.
Single-Frame Playback
Photographs taken with the D1 can be played back instantly on the
LCD monitor for review or deletion.
1 Turn the monitor on
Press the button to turn the monitor on. The most recent
photograph will be displayed.
2 View additional photos
"Camera Settings: Autofocus"
Press the focus-area selector down to view the other photo-
graphs in memory one at a time, or keep the selector pressed
to scroll rapidly through memory until you reach the desired
frame number. Press the selector to the right to view photo
information for the photograph currently displayed.
3 Deleting photographs
To delete the photograph displayed in the LCD monitor, press
the button. The confirmation dialog shown above at right
will appear. Press the
graph. To return to playback mode without deleting the photo-
graph, press any button on the rear of the camera other than
the and buttons. Press the
the shutter-release button to end playback without deleting the
photograph.
"First Steps: Take a Photograph"
"Camera Settings: Focus Area"
"Camera Settings: Focus Lock"
2
Keeping AE/AF lock button
held down or the shutter-
release button slightly de-
pressed, re-compose your
photograph, then press the
shutter-release button the
rest of the way down to take
a photograph.
"Playback"
ERASING IMAGES
YES
DEL
button again to delete the photo-
button or lightly press