Nikon Camera D610 Users Manual

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Movie Settings
Use the Movie settings  option in the shooting menu to adjust the following settings.
• Frame size/frame rate, Movie quality : Choose from the following options:
• Microphone : Turn the built-in or optional ME-1 stereo microphones on or off or 
adjust microphone sensitivity.
 Choose  Auto sensitivity  to adjust sensitivity 
automatically,  Microphone off  to turn sound recording off; to select microphone 
sensitivity manually, select  Manual sensitivity and choose a sensitivity.
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1Select Movie settings .
Press the G button to display the menus. 
Highlight  Movie settings  in the shooting 
menu and press  2.
2Choose movie options.
Highlight the desired item and press  2, then 
highlight an option and press  J.
DFrame Size and Rate
Frame size and rate affects the distribution  and amount of noise (randomly-spaced bright 
pixels, fog, or bright spots).
G  button 

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Viewing Movies
Movies are indicated by a 1 icon in full-frame playback ( 0177). Press  J to start 
playback.
The following operations can be performed:
1  icon Length Current position/total length
Movie progress bar Volume Guide
ToUseDescription
Pause Pause playback.
Play JResume playback when movie is paused or during rewind/
advance.
Rewind/
advance Speed increases with each press, from 
2 × to 4 × to 8 × to 16 ×; keep pressed to 
skip to beginning or end of movie (first frame is indicated by 
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AThe p Icon
Movies with indices ( 060) are indicated by a  p icon in full-frame 
playback.
AThe  2 Icon
2  is displayed in full-frame and movie playback if the movie was 
recorded without sound. 

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Editing Movies
Trim footage to create edited copies of movies or save selected frames as JPEG stills.
Tr i m m i n g  M ov i e s
To create trimmed copies of movies:
1Display a movie full frame.
Press the K button to display pictures full 
frame in the monitor and press  4 and  2 to 
scroll through pictures until the movie you 
wish to edit is displayed.
2Choose a starting or end point.
Play the movie back as described on page 
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4Select Choose start/end point .
Highlight Choose start/end point  and press 
J . 
The dialog shown at right will be displayed; 
choose whether the current frame will be 
the starting or end point of the copy and 
press  J.
5Delete frames.
If the desired frame is not currently 
displayed, press  4 or  2 to advance or 
rewind (to skip to 10 s ahead or back, rotate 
the main command dial; to skip to an index,  
or to the first or last frame if the movie 
contains no indices, rotate the sub-
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ATrimming Movies
Movies must be at least two seconds long.
 If a copy can not be created at the current 
playback position, the current position will be displayed in red in Step 5 and no copy will be 
created.
 The copy will not be saved if there is  insufficient space available on the memory 
card.
Copies have the same time and date of creation as the original.
AThe Retouch Menu
Movies can also be edited using the  Edit movie option in the retouch 
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Saving Selected Frames
To save a copy of a selected frame as a JPEG still:
1View the movie and choose a frame.
Play the movie back as described on page 
67; your approximate position in the movie 
can be ascertained from the movie progress 
bar.
 Press  4 or  2 to rewind or advance and 
press  3 to pause the movie at the frame you 
intend to copy.
2Display movie edit options.
Press the  c (b ) button to display movie 
edit options.
3Choose  Save selected frame .
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P, S, A, and M Modes
P,  S,  A , and  M modes offer different degrees of control over shutter 
speed and aperture.
ALens Types
When using a CPU lens equipped with an aperture ring ( 0287), lock the aperture ring at the 
minimum aperture (highest f-number).
 Type G and E lenses are not equipped with an 
aperture ring.
Non-CPU lenses can only be used in modes  A (aperture-priority auto) and  M (manual), when 
aperture can only be adjusted using the lens aperture ring.
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AShutter Speed and Aperture
Two of the chief factors in determining exposure are shutter speed and aperture.
 By slowing 
shutter speed while increasing aperture, or increasing shutter speed while reducing 
aperture, you can achieve different effects while keeping exposure constant.
 Fast shutter 
speeds and large apertures freeze moving objects and soften background details, while slow 
shutter speeds and small apertures blur movi ng objects and bring out background details.
Fast shutter speed  (...