Nikon F5 Instruction Manual

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54Shutter-Priority Auto exposure mode (™)Allows you to manually set your desired shutter speed. Tofreeze the action, use a high shutter speed; to create motioneffects, choose a slower shutter speed. The F5’s microcom-puter automatically selects the proper aperture to match themanually set shutter speed to ensure a correct exposure. Seepages 58-59 for Shutter-Priority Auto operation.Note that Shutter-Priority Auto exposure mode operates onlywith Nikon lenses having a built-in CPU (AF Nikkor and AI-PNikkor lenses).Aperture-Priority Auto exposure mode (£)By varying the aperture, you can control the depth of field.Smaller apertures make the background and foregroundsharper (recommended for landscape pictures) while largerapertures tend to blur the background (recommended forportraits).Your selected aperture will determine the shutter speed that isautomatically set by the camera’s microcomputer. When usingsmaller apertures with correspondingly slower shutter speeds,remember that, generally, any speed below 1/(focal length inuse) second, requires the use of a tripod to prevent picture blurdue to camera shake. The higher the corresponding shutterspeed to the aperture you set, the easier it is to stop action.Adjust the selected aperture if the speed is not appropriate forconditions or the specific effect you want.For Aperture-Priority Auto operation, see pages 61-63.Manual exposure mode (¢)Manual exposure control allows you to make both aperture andshutter speed settings. For a technically correct exposure,follow the recommendation of the camera’s light meter, as indi-cated by the LCD readout. To achieve a specific creative effect(e.g., intentional blur, intentional under- or over-exposure), disre-gard the LCD and modify the recommended exposure settings.For Manual exposure operation, see pages 64-67.P400 (E) 02.12.27 6:42 PM Page 54