how to say "aperture priority" to Nikon Coolpix 5600?

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Dan Jacobson - 21 Oct 2005 20:39 GMT

Gentlemen, I find the Nikon Coolpix 5600 is firmly committed to not
let one manually override much at all. Old fashioned concepts such as
aperture priority and shutter priority must be translated to the
camera via a selection of its myriad of modes.

Has anyone made a table of how to tell it the few things we used to
tell cameras, via what selection of its myriad of modes, without
having two or three extra effects bundled along too?

Or is there a more exact table of just what each of its myriad of
modes does then just the user friendly one in the manual?

Also is there an English manual online?

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C0mdrData - 21 Oct 2005 22:38 GMT

I am afraid if you are familiar with the terms "aperture priority" and
"shutter priority" you probably have the wrong camera. The best you can do
is learn to use the "scene" modes.
For instance, "action" gives you the fastest possible shutter speed,
"landscape" gives maximum depth, etc.

However, if you actually want to know what the shutter speeds and lens
openings are, you will need to buy a different camera.

My main camera offers all the various manual options, and gives a readout in
the viewer of the settings. I also own an older, automatic only camera,
that does not even have scene modes. The best that I can do with it is to
set the ISO to 400 in an action situation in an effort to get a faster
shutter speed. However it is much smaller than my main camera and takes
really sharp pictures, so I won't give it up. I just stay aware of its
limitations.

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> Gentlemen, I find the Nikon Coolpix 5600 is firmly committed to not
> let one manually override much at all. Old fashioned concepts such as
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> Also is there an English manual online?

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Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!) - 21 Oct 2005 22:55 GMT

>Gentlemen, I find the Nikon Coolpix 5600 is firmly committed to not
>let one manually override much at all. Old fashioned concepts such as
>aperture priority and shutter priority must be translated to the
>camera via a selection of its myriad of modes.

If you want aperture or shutter priority the 5600 is not the camera for
you.
http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin/nikonusa.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_prod
s=1%2C160&p_pv=2.160&p_cats=187&p_cv=1.187

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