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Silhouette. Exposes for bright backgrounds, turning foreground
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objects into underexposed silhouettes.
High Key. Exposes for bright scenes with lots of highlight areas.
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Low Key. Tailors exposure for darker scenes, retaining murky shadows
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while allowing highlights to remain.
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). Set any of these by pressing the release mode lock but-
ton southwest of the large mode dial on the top-left edge of the camera, and
rotating the outer release mode dial to the mode you want. (See Figure 1.8.) I'll
explain what each of these modes does in Chapter 2.
Single frame
Continuous
Low
Continuous
High
Choosing a Metering Mode
The metering mode you select determines how the D7200 calculates exposure.
To change metering modes, press the metering mode button, just southwest of
the shutter release, and rotate the main command dial to select from among
the choices that follow. (See Figure 1.9.)
Matrix metering. The standard metering mode; the D7200 attempts to
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intelligently classify your image and choose the best exposure based on
readings from a 2,016-point color CCD sensor that interprets light reach-
ing the viewfinder using a database of hundreds of thousands of
patterns.
Chapter 1
Quick Setup Guide
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Figure 1.8
Choose any of the
six release modes.
Mirror Up
Self-timer
Quiet shutter release
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