Nikon D5200 menu settings. This is the
third video in my Nikon D5200 settings
series, the second installment of the
Shooting Menu. I did another installment
about the Shooting Menu last week, that
video is linked up in the cards up there
right now, so go and look at that first if
you haven't seen it. There will also be a
third instalment about the shooting menu
coming next week, so don't go away
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So to get to your Shooting Menu, you just
press the Menu button up here on the
left hand side, and that will bring up
this - it will light up one of these icons.
Or it may be like that, it may have some
some of these options over here selected.
It depends where you've been the last
time you were in there. But if you
haven't been using it, it will light up
one of these icons over here. And so you
just scroll up or down with your Multi
Selector. We want the little camera icon.
And then you can either press OK or the
right side of the multi selector to take
you across, and choose whichever option
you want within the shooting menu. In the
previous video we looked at Set Picture
Control, and I mentioned Manage Picture
Control briefly, so this is where we'll
kick things off in this video. So if I go
across here, you can see this is where
you save, edit, rename, delete, or load (or
save), picture control presets basically,
these are your favorites. You can change
the settings in each of these picture
control options here and save them as a
preset. So let's say I wanted to edit the
Vivid there. I can either press ok, or I
can go across with
the right side of the selector switch,
and I can adjust all these values in
here.
So what I'll do actually is I'll just go
back for starters because I wanted to
mention why Rename and Delete are greyed-
out here. They are greyed-out because I
actually haven't saved any presets yet.
So if you have some saved, rename and
delete will be lit up and you'll see
that in a minute once we create one. So
we'll go down to Vivid and we'll edit
that one. If I click OK, you can see that
we have one to nine unused spots where
we can store our own little preset here.
So we'll go across and choose to edit
slot one. So you've got this menu here
with all these letters and numbers and
if you scroll down with your
multi-selecter, you've got symbols also. So
you can change this, to rename it to
whatever you like. Now to move the cursor
down here, use your command dial up there -
back and forth. To delete any number,
letter, or symbol down here, simply press
the trash can down there. And then scroll
back and we'll click trashcan again. And
I'll just, for the sake of saving time
here, I'll just name is Vivid-me. So we'll
go up and across, and you just click OK to
select whatever letter you want. To
select that and say "yes, that's what I
want...what I want to call it", just press
the zoom button. And that will take you
out, and now we have, as you can see
Rename and Delete are lit up. And we can go
across and we can now edit our
Vivid-ME, which is down the bottom. So
I'll click OK on that....
And you can see it's at the top of the
list there. We will go back. And we will
go in, and we will edit it by pressing
across to the right with our multi
selector. So I can change any value in
here that I want. Let's say I want to
turn the sharpening up...there. I can do
that. I can scroll down and drop the
contrast. I can, we'll leave the brightness. We'll
put the saturation up there. And the hue, we'll
go up one on that too, and we press ok to
save that. And that is stored in there as
a preset. So if I get back out of that, we
can then select that there, you press ok..
If I go out of this here you will see... If
I press the information button, we can go
down to our Picture Controls down here,
and our first one will be in there. So
that's our Vivid-ME, we can select that
and use that. So that is Manage Picture
Control, that is what you do with that
setting. I'll just delete this by going
across, click ok. It'll say it's in use,
but I wanna delete it anyway.
"Yes please," and we're done and then I'll
set it back.....to what it was at before, to
Standard, that's fine. All good.
Auto Distortion Control when switched on,
will reduce the barrel distortion
created by wide-angle lenses, and the
pincushion distortion in photos
taken with long lenses. This is easy, you
just choose On or Off in here, so if we
click on, that is on. I have never used
this as of course, you can do this in
Lightroom or Photoshop. But if you don't
have either of those editing softwares
or anything like them, you probably would
want to switch that on. Moving down we
have Color Space.
This is where you choose the range of
colors the camera will use to reproduce
your photos. And inside of here, you can
see we have sRGB, or Adobe RGB. The RGB in
both of these stands for red, green, and
blue. Your camera will use combinations
of these colors to capture your images.
So sRGB is a widely used color space,
so it's okay to leave it at that.
Adobe RGB is more for publishing and
commercial printing. So I normally leave
mine set at sRGB. Active D-Lighting is
next. This preserves details in your
highlights and shadows, so it gives you a
more natural contrast in your photos. So
if we click across into there you can
see, you've got the option of Auto, Extra
High, High, Normal, Low, or Off. So this is
kind of like having a flash when you
don't have one. It sort of gives you the
effect...same effect that a flash would
give. You can also set these from your
information screen here. So if you click
the i button, and you go across and up to
ADL - that's your active d-lighting, and
all those settings are in there. Next we
have High Dynamic Range. This will
combine two images to produce a picture
that has a wide range of tones from
shadows to highlights. In other words, if
you take a landscape shot for example
with a bright sky and a dark foreground,
the camera will combine two images that
expose for both of those areas
separately. So one image will be exposed
for your highlights, one will be exposed
for the shadows. And it will combine both
of those into an image that looks a lot
better. Now this will be greyed-out if
you have not...if you have, sorry RAW
selected up here. We'll select RAW in the
Image Quality Options there, and if I
scroll back down, you can see high
dynamic range is greyed-out. So it's not
available when you're shooting RAW. So
you need to have some sort of JPEG
selected there.
So you can see that I can now
select that, and if I go across, we have
all these options in here. We have Auto,
Extra High, High, Normal, Low, or Off. Now
keep in mind that this will only work
with Matrix Metering. So on your
information screen here, down the bottom
in the middle there you have your
metering. So you want to make sure that
is set to matrix, not center-weighted or
spot......as this will work best with matrix
metering. Also make sure that you have
your camera on a tripod as I do here,
because you don't want any movement
during the shooting of a HDR image. Now
another couple of things to note here is
that depending on the scene that you are
photographing, the HDR settings may not
work. So they may not be noticeable. It
can also produce shadows around light
objects, or halos around dark objects.
I've never actually used it, as I'm not
really a fan of HDR done in this way. So
I can't really tell you how well it does
or doesn't work. Our final option in the
shooting menu for this video is Long
Exposure NR. The NR here stands for
noise reduction. If this is turned on, any
exposure longer than one second will
have noise reduction applied in-camera.
Now this obviously increases the time it
takes for the camera to process the
image, and if you turn the camera off
while it's processing it; then the noise
reduction will not be applied to the
photo. That concludes this installment
about the Shooting Menu. Part 4 of my
Nikon D5200 settings video series
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