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Nikon D7200 Quick Setup Manual

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Quick Setup Guide
This chapter contains the essential information you need to get your Nikon
D7200 prepped and ready to go. You'll learn how to use a few of the basic
controls and features, and how to transfer your photos to your computer. If you
want a more complete map of the functions of your camera, skip ahead to
Chapter 2. Live view is touched on only briefly in this chapter; if you want to
begin using live view or shoot movies immediately, check out Chapter 6.
Pre-Flight Checklist
The initial setup of your Nikon D7200 is fast and easy. You just need to charge
the battery, learn a few controls, attach a lens, and insert a memory card.

Charging the Battery

When the battery is inserted into the MH-25a charger properly (it's impossible
to insert it incorrectly), an orange charge light begins flashing, and remains
flashing until the status lamp glows steadily, indicating that charging is fin-
ished, generally within two to three hours. When the battery is charged, slide
the latch on the bottom of the camera and ease the battery in, as shown in
Figure 1.1.
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1
Insert the battery in
the camera; it only
fits one way.

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  • Page 1: Charging The Battery

    This chapter contains the essential information you need to get your Nikon D7200 prepped and ready to go. You’ll learn how to use a few of the basic controls and features, and how to transfer your photos to your computer. If you want a more complete map of the functions of your camera, skip ahead to Chapter 2.

  • Page 2: Setting The Clock

    David Busch’s Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D7200 Introducing Menus and the Multi Selector You’ll find descriptions of most of the controls used with the Nikon D7200 in Chapter 2, which provides a complete “roadmap” of the camera’s buttons and dials and switches.

  • Page 3: Mounting The Lens

    The options for setting the 24-hour clock will appear on the screen that appears next. Mounting the Lens If your D7200 has no lens attached, you’ll need to mount one before shooting: 1. Select the lens and loosen (but do not remove) the rear lens cap.
  • Page 4 You should only remove the memory card when the camera is switched off, or, at the very least, when the yellow-green card access light (at the lower right of the Lv button on the back of the camera) that indicates the D7200 is writing to the card is not illuminated.

  • Page 5: Selecting An Exposure Mode

    Slot 1 will be selected. If you’d rather format the other card, rotate the main command dial to select that slot. Then press the pair of buttons again, and the D7200 will format your card. To cancel the format, press any other button.
  • Page 6 David Busch’s Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D7200 D7200’s features, because they allow you to specify how the camera chooses its settings when making an exposure, for greater creative control. The auto modes and scene modes take full control of the camera, make all the decisions for you, and don’t allow you to override the D7200’s settings.
  • Page 7 SCENE for access to the other exposure modes. U1 and U2 are positions that activate custom sets of adjustments that you specify, as described later: Auto. In this mode, the D7200 makes all the exposure decisions for you, and will pop up the internal flash if necessary under low-light conditions.
  • Page 8 David Busch’s Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D7200 exposures may be long enough to cause blurring from camera move- ment. The built-in flash will pop up if needed. Night Portrait. Choose this mode when you want to illuminate a sub-...

  • Page 9: Choosing A Release Mode

    Choosing a Release Mode The release mode determines when (and how often) the D7200 makes an exposure. Your D7200 has six release (shooting) modes: Single frame, two continuous shooting options (Low and High), Quiet shutter release, Self-timer, and Mirror Up (Mup).

  • Page 10: Choosing A Focus Mode

    Autofocus mode when the D7200 measures and locks in focus prior to pressing the shutter release down all the way and taking the picture. To specify when the D7200 locks in focus, follow these steps: 1.
  • Page 11 This mode is best when your subject is relatively motionless. As you’ll learn in Chapter 4, you can set your Nikon D7200 using Custom Setting a2 so that the camera will not take a photo unless sharp focus is achieved ( focus-priority), or so that it will go ahead and snap a photo while still adjusting focus (release-priority).

  • Page 12: Choosing An Af-Area Mode

    Figure 1.11, right). 3. Choose AF-area mode. For now, you should set Auto-area AF and allow the D7200 to choose the focus zone for you. They are described briefly next. Single-point. The camera focuses on a point you select, using the multi selector directional buttons, when the AF-point lock lever (located just below the multi selector) is not set to the L (lock) position.
  • Page 13 AF-A and AF-C modes. (In AF-S mode, focus tracking is not used, as focus is locked in when you press the shutter release halfway.) Auto-area AF. The D7200 chooses a focus point. In live view, focus area modes, described in Chapter 6, include: Face-priority AF.
  • Page 14 ISO Auto on or off. Reviewing the Still Images You’ve Taken The Nikon D7200 has a broad range of playback and image review options. (See Figure 1.12.) View image. Press the Playback button (marked with a white right- pointing triangle) at the upper-left corner of the back of the camera to display the most recent image on the LCD monitor.

  • Page 15: Using The Built-In Flash

    In P and A modes. When using P (Program) and A (Aperture-priority) exposure modes, the D7200 will select a shutter speed for you automati- cally from the range 1/250th to 1/60th seconds. You can select an aper-...

  • Page 16: Using The Self-Timer

    The f lash exposure will be calculated automatically. In Auto/Scene modes. The D7200 will choose the appropriate shutter speed automatically. The flash pops up automatically when needed when using some scene modes, as described in Chapter 5.

  • Page 17: Transferring Photos To Computer

    I recommend using a card reader attached to your computer to transfer files, because that process is generally a lot faster and doesn’t drain the D7200’s bat- tery. However, you can also use a cable for direct transfer, which may be your only option when you have the cable and a computer, but no card reader (per- haps you’re using the computer of a friend or colleague, or at an Internet café).

  • Page 18: Resetting

    If you want to change from the factory default values, you might think that it would be a good idea to make sure that the Nikon D7200 is set to the factory defaults in the first place. After all, even a brand-new camera might have had its settings changed at the retailer, or during a demo.

  • Page 19: Two-Button Reset

    1. Find reset buttons. Locate the Thumbnail/Zoom Out/ISO/Reset #2 button on the back left side of the camera, and the EV/Reset #1 button on the top panel of the D7200, just southeast of the shutter release button. Each is marked with a green dot.

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