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Tutorial—Basic Photography
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.2 Choose single-area AF ( 76)
Rotate the AF-area mode se lec tor until it
clicks into place point ing to
(sin gle-area
AF). At this setting, the user can choose
from eleven focus areas. Pressing the shut-
ter-release button halfway locks focus at
the distance to the subject in the selected
focus area.
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.3 Choose single-servo autofocus ( 72)
Rotate the focus-mode se lec tor until it
clicks into place point ing to S (sin gle-servo
autofocus). At this setting, the cam era
will au to mat i cal ly focus on the sub ject in
the se lect ed focus area when the shut ter-
release but ton is pressed half way. Pic tures
can only be taken when the camera is in
focus.
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.4 Choose matrix me ter ing ( 84)
Press the metering selector lock button
and rotate the me ter ing selector to
(matrix metering). Matrix me ter ing uses
in for ma tion from all ar eas of the frame to
de ter mine ex po sure, en sur ing op ti mal re-
sults for the entire frame. If a type G or D
lens is mounted on the camera, 3D matrix
metering is used for exposure control that
takes into account maximum brightness,
contrast, and the distance to the subject.
When matrix metering is selected, the metering display in the view-
fi nder shows .
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