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.
• Destination : Choose the slot to which movies are recorded.
 The 
menu shows the time available on each card; recording ends 
automatically when  no time remains.
Frame size/frame rateMovie qualityMaximum length 
( ★  high quality/Normal)
Frame size (pixels)Frame rate*Maximum bit rate (Mbps)  
( ★  high quality/Normal)
o /1 1920 × 1080 30p
24/1220 min./
29 min. 59 s
p /2 1920 × 1080 25p
q/3 1920 × 1080 24p
r/4 1280 × 720 60p
s/5 1280 × 720 50p
t/6 1280 × 720 30p
12/ 829 min. 59 s/
29 min. 59 s
u /7 1280 × 720 25p
* Listed value. Actual frame rates for 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, and 24p are 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, and 23.976 
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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 
h 
in top right corner of monitor, last frame by  i).
 If playback is 
paused, movie rewinds or advances one frame at a time; keep 
pressed for continuous rewind or advance.
Skip 10 s Rotate the main command dial to skip ahead or back 10 s.
Skip ahead/ back Use sub-command dial to skip to next or previous index, or to 
skip to the last or first frame if the movie contains no indices.
Adjust volume X
 (
T )/ 
W  (S ) Press 
X (
T ) to increase volume,  W (S ) to decrease.
Trim movie c (b ) See page 69 for more information.
Exit /K Exit to full-frame playback.
Return to 
shooting mode Press the shutter-release button halfway to exit to shooting 
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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 
67, pressing  J to start and resume playback 
and  3 to pause and pressing  4 or  2 or 
rotating the main or sub-command dials to 
locate the desired frame ( 067).
 Yo u r  
approximate position in the movie can be 
ascertained from the movie progress bar.
3Display movie edit options.
Press the  c (b ) button to display movie 
edit options.
OptionDescription
9 Choose start/end point Create a copy from which the opening or closing footage has been 
removed.
4 Save selected frame
Save a selected frame as a JPEG still.
K button
Movie progress bar
c (b ) button 
						

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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-
command dial).
 To switch the current selection from start point ( w) to end point 
( x ) or vice versa, press  L (U ).
Once you have selected the start point and/
or end point, press  1.
 All frames before the 
selected start point and after the selected 
end point will be removed from the copy.
6Save the copy.
Highlight one of the following and press  J:
• Save as new file : Save the copy to a new file.
• Overwrite existing file : Replace the original 
movie file with the edited copy.
• Cancel : Return to Step 5.
• Preview : Preview the copy.
Edited copies are indicated by a  9 icon in full-frame playback.
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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 
menu ( 0261). 
						

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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 .
Highlight Save selected frame  and press J.
4Create a still copy.
Press  1 to create a still copy of the current 
frame.
5Save the copy.
Highlight  Ye s and press  J to create a fine-
quality ( 093) JPEG copy of the selected 
frame.
 Movie stills are indicated by a  9 icon 
in full-frame playback.
ASave Selected Frame
JPEG movie stills created with the  Save selected frame option can not be retouched.
 JPEG 
movie stills lack some categories of photo information ( 0179).
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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.
 Selecting any other mode 
disables the shutter release.
ANon-CPU Lenses ( 0285)
Use the lens aperture ring to adjust aperture.
 If the maximum 
aperture of the lens has been specified using the  Non-CPU lens 
data  item in setup menu ( 0172) when a non-CPU lens is attached, 
the current f-number will be displayed in the viewfinder and 
control panel, rounded to the nearest full stop.
 Otherwise the 
aperture displays will show only the number of stops ( F, with 
maximum aperture displayed as  FA) and the f-number must be 
read from 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  (
1/1,600s) Slow shutter speed 
(1/6s) Large aperture (f/5.6) Small aperture (f/22)
(Remember, the higher the f-number, the  smaller the aperture.)
Shutter speed Aperture