Nikon D5000 User manual

Camera Cheat Sheet – Nikon D5000

Last updated: 20 August 2020

CAMERA FUNCTIONS

Mode Dial

On the mode dial

Manual Mode (M)

should always be selected.

Shutter Speed

Adjustments are made by rotating the

‘Command Dial’.

Scroll right for faster and left for slower.

Default setting 1/125.

Aperture

Adjustments are made by pressing & holding down the

‘+/-‘

button and rotating the

‘Command Dial’

(left for larger f/number and right for smaller)

Default setting between f7.1 & f9.

ISO Sensitivity

Press the

“I”

button, use the multi-selector to

highlight the ISO on the LCD display and press OK.

Then select the ISO required.

Default setting ISO 200

Shutter Release

[+/]

Aperture

Adjustment

Mode Dial

Multi - Selector

Command Dial

[i] Button

Menu Button

FOCUSING – THE FOCUS AREA

Due to the conditions we photograph in while on location in the

shopping centres the best focus area mode is

Auto-area AF.

This mode

is where the camera automatically detects subjects and selects the

focus point(s). Follow the steps below to select the correct (Auto

Focus) AF-area mode.

1.

If the shooting information is not displayed on the monitor

display press the “info” button.

2.

Press the

“i”

button, then highlight the current AF-area

mode on the screen display and press

OK

.

3.

Highlight the

Auto-area AF

symbol and click

OK

.

PRESET MANUAL WHITE BALANCE PROCEDURE

1. Press the

Menu

button

2. Using the keypad multi-selector, select the (camera

icon) Shooting Menu - Tab 2. Select

White Balance

3. If the option is selected

on PRE Pre-set manual,

then

press

OK

.

If not use the right arrow to navigate to the

PRE

option, then press

OK.

4. The camera will ask you if you would like to

measure or use photo.

Select

measure

as we are measuring the white

balance for our on-location lighting set up and

everyday can be different.

5. Take a photo of your white balance sheet.

Hold the white sheet where the customers being

photographed will be standing/seated. Zoom in using

the lens to make the white sheet fill the camera

frame.

6. Overwrite existing data – select

YES!

The camera should say

“Data Acquired

”.

If the Camera comes up with the error “

Data Not

Acquired”

repeat the steps again.

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