Nikon D7200 Quick Setup Manual

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Chapter 1 n Quick Setup Guide 9n Silhouette. Exposes for bright backgrounds, turning foregroundobjects into underexposed silhouettes.n High Key. Exposes for bright scenes with lots of highlight areas.n Low Key. Tailors exposure for darker scenes, retaining murky shadowswhile allowing highlights to remain.Choosing a Release ModeThe release mode determines when (and how often) the D7200 makes anexposure. Your D7200 has six release (shooting) modes: Single frame, twocontinuous 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, androtating the outer release mode dial to the mode you want. (See Figure 1.8.) I’llexplain what each of these modes does in Chapter 2.Choosing a Metering ModeThe metering mode you select determines how the D7200 calculates exposure.To change metering modes, press the metering mode button, just southwest ofthe shutter release, and rotate the main command dial to select from amongthe choices that follow. (See Figure 1.9.)n Matrix metering. The standard metering mode; the D7200 attempts tointelligently classify your image and choose the best exposure based onreadings from a 2,016-point color CCD sensor that interprets light reach-ing the viewfinder using a database of hundreds of thousands ofpatterns.Figure 1.8Choose any of thesix release modes.Mirror UpSelf-timerQuiet shutter releaseSingle frameContinuousLowContinuousHigh