Nikon^® D5200™ Digital Field Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Quick Tour

Getting Started

Mounting the Lens

Setting the Shooting Mode

Focusing

Viewing Your Images

Chapter 1: Exploring the Nikon D5200

Key Components of the D5200

The top of the camera

The back of the camera

The front of the camera

The left side of the camera

The right side of the camera

The Viewfinder Display

The Information Display

Chapter 2: Nikon D5200 Essentials

Exposure Modes

Automatic modes

Programmed auto mode

Aperture-priority auto mode

Shutter-priority auto mode

Manual mode

Scene Modes

Special Effects Modes

Night Vision mode

Color Sketch mode

Miniature Effect mode

Selective Color mode

Silhouette mode

High Key

Low Key

Metering Modes

Matrix metering mode

Center-weighted metering mode

Spot metering mode

Autofocus

Phase detection

Contrast detection

Focus Modes

Auto Servo AF mode

Continuous Servo AF mode

Single Servo AF mode

Manual focus mode

Autofocus Area Modes

Auto area AF mode

Single-point AF mode

Dynamic-area AF mode

Release Modes

ISO Sensitivity

Auto ISO

Noise reduction

White Balance

The Kelvin scale

White balance settings

Picture Controls

File Formats, Size, and Compression

NEF (RAW)

JPEG

Image size

Image quality

Chapter 3: Setting up the Nikon D5200

The Playback Menu

Delete

Playback folder

Playback display options

Image review

Rotate tall

Slide show

DPOF print order

The Shooting Menu

Reset shooting menu

Storage folder

Image quality

Image size

White balance

Set Picture Control

Manage Picture Control ...