target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_8a565779-66fb-5bf1-86f0-1c4452cdc75a">FIGURE 1-10: You can connect a variety of devices, including a microphone, to the camera.
Using the Touchscreen
If you've used a smartphone or tablet or another touchscreen device, working with the camera's touchscreen will feel familiar. Just as with those devices, you communicate with the camera by tapping the screen or by dragging one or two fingers across the screen. For example, you can tap a menu option to select it. And during picture playback, you can magnify a photo by placing your thumb and forefinger in the center of the screen and then dragging outward — a maneuver Nikon refers to as a stretch. Dragging inward from the edges of the screen — pinching — reduces the image magnification.
During shooting, you can tap the screen to set focus and take a picture. You also can tell the camera to set focus only or to disable both tap-to-focus and tap-to-shoot. For details on this feature, see the section “Using the Touch Shutter (or Not),” later in this chapter.
By default, the touchscreen is enabled. But if you often inadvertently tap the screen, resulting in an adjustment you didn’t intend, you can disable the touchscreen or use it just for playback. The following steps walk you through the process of adjusting this option and give you some practice in using the touchscreen:
1 Press the Menu button to display the camera menus.Sadly, no touchscreen control takes you to the menus.
2 Tap the Setup menu icon, labeled on the left in Figure 1-11.The options on that menu appear to the right of the icons.FIGURE 1-11: Enable or disable the touchscreen via this Setup menu option.
3 Drag your finger up or down the screen to scroll the menu to the page that contains the Touch Controls option.The scroll bar, labeled in Figure 1-11, indicates how far you scrolled from the top or bottom of the menu.
4 Tap Touch Controls to display the screen shown on the right in Figure 1-11.
5 Tap Enable/Disable Touch Controls to let the camera know when you want to be able to use the touchscreen.You have three options: Playback Only enables the touchscreen for (surprise!) playback only. Disable turns off all touchscreen functions. The default setting, Enable, turns on all touchscreen functions. Tap your choice to return to the first Touch Controls screen. Or, to exit without making any changes, tap the exit arrow in the upper right corner of the screen, labeled on the right in Figure 1-11. If you select Playback Only or Disable, you can’t use the touchscreen to switch back to Enable. You have to use the Multi Selector and OK button to change the menu setting, as outlined in the next section.
6 On the screen shown on the right in Figure 1-11, tap Full-Frame Playback Flicks to set the playback frame-advance direction.At the default setting, shown in the figure, a right-to-left flick scrolls from photo 1 to photo 2, and a flick in the other direction takes you back to picture 1. Choose left-to-right to reverse things. Again, tap your choice or tap the exit arrow to return to the main Touch Controls screen.
7 Tap the exit arrow on the Touch Controls screen to return to the Setup menu.To exit menus and return to shooting, press the shutter button halfway and release it. You also can press the Menu button twice.
Navigating Menus
Here's how to work your way through the menu maze:
Select a different menu. Your fastest option is to tap the menu's icon. But you also can press the Multi Selector left to activate the icon strip, press up or down to select the icon that represents the menu you want to view, and then press right to access that menu’s options.TABLE 1-1 Z fc MenusSymbolOpen This Menu …… to Access These FunctionsPlaybackViewing, deleting, and protecting picturesPhoto ShootingBasic photography settingsVideo RecordingOptions related to shooting videosCustom SettingsAdvanced photography, recording, and camera customization optionsSetupAdditional basic camera operationsRetouchPhoto and video editing options My Menu/Recent SettingsYour custom menu or a menu listing the 20 most recently used menu options
Select and adjust a menu option. Again, you can take advantage of the touchscreen or use the Multi Selector. The preceding section walks you through the touchscreen process. If using the Multi Selector, press up or down to scroll the menu until the option you want to change is highlighted. Press the OK button to display the available settings. Repeat the old up-and-down scroll routine until the choice you prefer is highlighted. Then press OK. A right-pointing triangle next to a menu item means to tap the triangle or press the Multi Selector right to display a submenu.Menu items that are dimmed aren't available. For example, when you set the Shooting mode to Auto, you can’t access some advanced options.
Select items from the Custom Settings menu. Displaying this menu, represented by the Pencil icon, takes you to a screen that contains submenus that carry the labels a through g, as shown on the left in Figure 1-12. Each submenu holds clusters of options related to a specific aspect of camera operation. To reach those options, tap the submenu or highlight it with the Multi Selector and press OK. The right side of Figure 1-12 shows options included in the a submenu, for example.In the Nikon manual, instructions reference Custom Settings menu items by a letter and number. For example, Custom Setting a1 refers to the first option on the a submenu. I try to be more specific, so I use the actual setting names.FIGURE 1-12: The Custom Settings menu contains seven submenus of advanced options. After you jump to the first submenu, you can simply scroll up and down the list to view options from other submenus. You don't have to go back to the initial Custom Settings screen and select a submenu.
Create a custom menu or view your 20 most recently adjusted menu items: The seventh menu is actually two menus that share an apartment: My Menu and Recent Settings, both shown in Figure 1-13. Each menu contains a Choose Tab option as the last item on the menu; select this option to shift between the two menus.When My Menu is displayed, you can create a custom menu that contains your favorite options, saving you the trouble of jumping to different menus to access them. Chapter 10 details the steps. The Recent Settings menu lists the 20 menu items you ordered most recently. Again, the idea is to save you the time of wading through menus to find these options. To remove an item from the Recent Settings menu, use the Multi Selector to highlight the item and then press the Delete button. Press Delete again to confirm your decision.
