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Table of contents

  • Before you begin
    • When your first photo can’t wait
    • Content by Nikon to enjoy photos
    • Package contents
    • About this document
    • For your safety
    • Notices
  • Parts of the camera
    • Camera body
    • The monitor
    • Touch controls
    • Fn1/Fn2/Fn3 buttons
  • Using the menus
    • Selecting settings from menus
    • Selecting settings from the i menu
  • First steps
    • Attaching the strap
    • Inserting the battery and memory cards
    • Charging the battery
    • Attaching a lens
    • Opening the monitor
    • Camera setup
  • Basic photography and playback
    • Recording videos (b auto)
    • Taking photographs (b auto)
    • Playback
  • Shooting settings
    • Image recording options (image area, quality, and size)
    • Focus
    • Exposure
    • Release mode
    • ISO sensitivity
    • White balance
    • Picture Controls
  • Video recording
    • Video file types
    • Video frame size and rate options
    • Video recording: Shooting mode
    • Video image area options
    • Points to note when filming videos
    • RAW video
    • Recording HLG video
    • Recording N-Log video
    • Hi-Res Zoom
    • Product review mode
    • Video self-timer
    • Live streaming (USB streaming (UVC/UAC))
  • Viewing pictures
    • Viewing pictures
    • Photo information
    • i menu (during playback)
    • Playback zoom
    • Protecting pictures from deletion
    • Rating pictures
    • Selecting pictures for upload
    • Filtered playback
    • Viewing slide shows
    • Viewing looped videos
    • Deleting pictures
  • Retouching photographs
    • Retouching photographs
    • RAW processing
    • Trim
    • Resize
    • D-Lighting
    • Straighten
    • Distortion control
    • Perspective control
    • Monochrome
    • Dehaze
    • Overlay (add)
    • [Lighten] and [Darken]
    • Motion blend
  • Editing videos
    • Editing videos
    • Trimming videos
    • Saving the current frame as a JPEG still
    • Creating stills from a selected length of footage
  • Voice memos
    • Recording voice memos
    • Playing voice memos
  • Connecting to HDMI TVs and recorders
    • Connecting to HDMI devices
    • TVs
    • Recorders
  • Connecting to smart devices
    • The SnapBridge app
    • Wireless connections
  • Connecting to computers or FTP servers
    • Making the connection
    • Computers: Connecting via USB
    • Computers: Connecting via wireless LAN
    • FTP servers: Connecting via wireless LAN
    • What you can do when the camera is connected to a computer or FTP server
    • Troubleshooting wireless LAN connection
  • Connecting to Nikon Imaging Cloud
    • About Nikon Imaging Cloud
    • Connecting the camera to Nikon Imaging Cloud
    • Error codes
  • Connecting to other cameras
    • What inter-camera connections can do for you
    • Synchronized release
    • Synchronizing camera clocks
  • Nikon cloud service, software, and applications
    • Cloud service
    • Computer software
    • Smartphone (tablet) apps
  • Flash photography
    • “On-camera” versus “remote”
    • Using an on-camera flash
    • Flash control mode
    • Flash modes
    • Flash compensation
    • FV lock
  • Remote flash photography
    • What is remote flash photography?
    • Controlling remote flash units
  • Menu guide
    • The photo shooting menu
      • Reset photo shooting menu
      • Storage folder
      • File naming
      • Primary slot selection
      • Secondary slot function
      • Shooting mode options
      • Image area
      • Tone mode
      • Image quality
      • Image size settings
      • RAW recording
      • ISO sensitivity settings
      • White balance
      • Set Picture Control
      • Manage Picture Control
      • Set Picture Control (HLG)
      • Color space
      • Active D-Lighting
      • High ISO NR
      • Vignette control
      • Diffraction compensation
      • Auto distortion control
      • Skin softening
      • Portrait impression balance
      • High-frequency flicker reduction
      • Metering
      • Flash control
      • Flash mode
      • Flash compensation
      • Release mode
      • Focus mode
      • AF-area mode
      • AF/MF subject detection options
      • MF subject detection area
      • Vibration reduction
      • Link VR to focus point
      • Auto bracketing
      • Multiple exposure
      • HDR overlay
      • Dehaze
      • Interval timer shooting
      • Time-lapse video
      • Focus shift shooting
      • Pixel shift shooting
    • The video recording menu
      • Reset video recording menu
      • Storage folder
      • File naming
      • Destination
      • Shooting mode options
      • Video file type
      • Frame size/frame rate
      • Video quality (N-RAW)
      • Image area
      • ISO sensitivity settings
      • White balance
      • Set Picture Control
      • Manage Picture Control
      • HLG quality
      • Active D-Lighting
      • High ISO NR
      • Vignette control
      • Diffraction compensation
      • Auto distortion control
      • Breathing compensation
      • Skin softening
      • Portrait impression balance
      • Video flicker reduction
      • High-frequency flicker reduction
      • Metering
      • Focus mode
      • AF-area mode
      • AF/MF subject detection options
      • Product review mode
      • MF subject detection area
      • Video self-timer
      • Vibration reduction
      • Electronic VR
      • 32-bit float audio recording
      • Built-in microphone options
      • Audio input selection
      • Audio input sensitivity
      • Attenuator
      • Frequency response
      • Wind noise reduction
      • Mic jack plug-in power
      • Headphone volume
      • Timecode
      • External rec. cntrl (HDMI)
      • Hi-Res Zoom
    • The Custom Settings menu
      • Reset custom settings
      • a: Focus
        • a1: AF-C priority selection
        • a2: AF-S priority selection
        • a3: Focus tracking with lock-on
        • a4: Focus points used
        • a5: Store points by orientation
        • a6: Half-press AF activation
        • a7: Focus point persistence
        • a8: Limit AF-area mode selection
        • a9: Focus point wrap-around
        • a10: Focus point display
        • a11: Focus peaking
        • a12: Focus point selection speed
        • a13: Manual focus ring in AF mode
      • b: Metering/exposure
        • b1: ISO sensitivity step value
        • b2: EV steps for exposure cntrl
        • b3: Easy exposure compensation
        • b4: Matrix metering face detection
        • b5: Center-weighted area
        • b6: Fine-tune optimal exposure
      • c: Timers/AE lock
        • c1: Shutter-release button AE-L
        • c2: Self-timer
        • c3: Power off delay
      • d: Shooting/display
        • d1: CL mode shooting speed
        • d2: Maximum shots per burst
        • d3: Pre-Release Capture options
        • d4: Sync. release mode options
        • d5: Exposure delay mode
        • d6: Extended shutter speeds (M)
        • d7: Limit selectable image area
        • d8: File number sequence
        • d9: View mode (photo Lv)
        • d10: Starlight view (photo Lv)
        • d11: Warm display colors
        • d12: Display on during burst
        • d13: Release timing indicator
        • d14: Image frame
        • d15: Grid type
        • d16: Virtual horizon type
        • d17: Half-press to cancel zoom (MF)
        • d18: Custom monitor shooting display
      • e: Bracketing/flash
        • e1: Flash shutter speed
        • e2: Exposure comp. for flash
        • e3: Auto c ISO sensitivity control
        • e4: Modeling flash
        • e5: Auto bracketing (mode M)
        • e6: Bracketing order
        • e7: Flash burst priority
      • f: Controls
        • f1: Customize i menu
        • f2: Custom controls (shooting)
        • f3: Custom controls (playback)
        • f4: Customize touch controls
        • f5: Control lock
        • f6: Reverse dial rotation
        • f7: Release button to use dial
        • f8: Reverse indicators
        • f9: Reverse ring for focus
        • f10: Focus ring rotation range
        • f11: Zoom ring control (PZ lens)
        • f12: Assign power zoom
        • f13: Control ring response
        • f14: Switch focus/control ring roles
        • f15: Full-frame playback flicks
      • g: Video
        • g1: Customize i menu
        • g2: Custom controls
        • g3: Customize touch controls
        • g4: Control lock
        • g5: Limit AF-area mode selection
        • g6: AF speed
        • g7: AF tracking sensitivity
        • g8: Hi-Res Zoom speed
        • g9: Assign power zoom
        • g10: Power/Hi-Res Zoom collab
        • g11: Fine ISO control (mode M)
        • g12: Extended shutter speeds (S/M)
        • g13: Shutter mode
        • g14: View assist
        • g15: 3D LUT
        • g16: Zebra pattern
        • g17: Limit zebra pattern tone range
        • g18: Grid type
        • g19: Brightness information display
        • g20: Half-press to cancel zoom (MF)
        • g21: Custom monitor shooting display
        • g22: Red REC frame indicator
    • The playback menu
      • Delete
      • Playback folder
      • Playback display options
      • Delete pictures from both slots
      • Dual-format recording PB slot
      • Filtered playback criteria
      • Series playback
      • Picture review
      • After delete
      • After burst, show
      • Record camera orientation
      • Auto-rotate pictures
      • Copy image(s)
    • The setup menu
      • Format memory card
      • Manage user settings
      • Language
      • Time zone and date
      • Monitor brightness
      • Monitor color balance
      • Monitor display size (Lv)
      • Auto rotate info display
      • REC lamp brightness
      • AF fine-tuning options
      • Non-CPU lens data
      • Distance units
      • Save focus position
      • Save zoom position (PZ lenses)
      • Auto temperature cutout
      • Image Dust Off ref photo
      • Pixel mapping
      • Image comment
      • Copyright information
      • IPTC
      • I connector function (headphone/remote cord connector function)
      • Voice memo options
      • Camera sounds
      • Silent mode
      • Touch controls
      • Self-portrait mode
      • HDMI
      • USB connection priority
      • Conformity marking
      • Battery info
      • USB power delivery
      • Energy saving (photo mode)
      • Slot empty release lock
      • Save/load menu settings
      • Reset all settings
      • Firmware version
    • The network menu
      • Airplane mode
      • Nikon Imaging Cloud
      • Connect to smart device
      • Wireless remote (ML-L7) options
      • Bluetooth remote cntrl options
      • Connect to computer
      • Connect to FTP server
      • Connect to other cameras
      • ATOMOS AirGlu BT options
      • USB
      • Router frequency band
      • MAC address
    • My Menu/Recent settings
  • Troubleshooting
    • Before contacting customer support
    • Problems and solutions
    • Alerts and error messages
  • Technical notes
    • Compatible lenses and accessories
    • The monitor display
    • Compatible flash units
    • Other compatible accessories
    • Caring for the camera
    • Caring for the camera and battery: Cautions
    • Specifications
    • Approved memory cards
    • Memory card capacity
    • Memory card capacity (videos)
    • Battery endurance
    • Trademarks and licenses
    • Compliance information
  • ZR Reference Guide
  • Menu guide
  • The photo shooting menu
  • Focus mode

Focus mode

  1. A button (press and hold)
  2. C photo shooting menu

Control how the camera focuses. For more information, see “Focus mode” (Focus mode), part of the section on “Focus” in the “Shooting settings” chapter.

The photo shooting menu

  • Reset photo shooting menu
  • Storage folder
  • File naming
  • Primary slot selection
  • Secondary slot function
  • Shooting mode options
  • Image area
  • Tone mode
  • Image quality
  • Image size settings
  • RAW recording
  • ISO sensitivity settings
  • White balance
  • Set Picture Control
  • Manage Picture Control
  • Set Picture Control (HLG)
  • Color space
  • Active D-Lighting
  • High ISO NR
  • Vignette control
  • Diffraction compensation
  • Auto distortion control
  • Skin softening
  • Portrait impression balance
  • High-frequency flicker reduction
  • Metering
  • Flash control
  • Flash mode
  • Flash compensation
  • Release mode
  • Focus mode
  • AF-area mode
  • AF/MF subject detection options
  • MF subject detection area
  • Vibration reduction
  • Link VR to focus point
  • Auto bracketing
  • Multiple exposure
  • HDR overlay
  • Dehaze
  • Interval timer shooting
  • Time-lapse video
  • Focus shift shooting
  • Pixel shift shooting

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