Nikon Quick Ceph Coolpix 5000 Quick Start Manual

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Nikon Coolpix 5000 Help

The camera settings shown below offer a starting point for taking pictures with the Nikon Coolpix 5000 digital camera.

Nikon also includes with each camera a help manual entitled, "The Nikon Guide to Digital Photography with the

Coolpix 5000 Digital Camera". We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the settings and usage of this camera.

Recommended Settings for Extraoral Photographs

Initial Steps:

Turn the camera on by rotating

the top dial to "On". The menu

button on the back of the camera

should be set to the Shooting

mode.

The Nikon 5000 camera has 3 user-defineable settings and one automatic setting. We recommend the automatic setting for extraoral

photographs, although you can easily create custom settings for your extraoral photos. To change settings, hold down on the Function

key

on the top of the camera and rotate the command dial. A window will appear in the upper left corner of the large rear LCD

indicating the current user setting. For the automatic mode, make sure no numbers are present in the left corner of the screen.

We suggest using either a wall mounted lightbox with a built-in slave flash or a bare slave flash

to eliminate shadows on the facial photos. If you are using a bare slave flash, we have found that

it works best when placed precisely behind the patient's head, facing toward a white background.

You may need to adjust the brightness on the background lighting that you use in order to generate

accurate soft tissue hues. Overhead fluorescent lighting may also affect the color of the images.

You can replace the fluorescent bulbs with halogen lighting to produce better color images.

Professional photographers spend time setting up their studios for just the right picture. We also

have to invest time in setting up our offices for the right lighting for digital images.

Tips for Taking Extraoral Images

When you are taking the lateral head image, make sure the patient's head is level, with no tilting or

canting. We suggest that you place a mirror in front of the patient with a vertical line and have them

align themselves to it. This will make it easier to align the photos to the x-ray tracings. You should

capture the photo with the camera lens aligned with the patient's Frankfurt Horizontal plane to

ensure the most accuracy.

Recommended Settings for Intraoral Photographs

For intraoral photographs, we recommend adjusting the camera settings using one of the 3 user-defineable settings. This

gives you greater control over the exposure and depth of field of the images, resulting in higher quality pictures than in the

auto mode. The settings for each user setting only needs to be created once, as the camera "memorizes" them.

Changing User Settings:

You should change the user settings to one of the

3 user-defined settings by following the steps

described above.

Adjusting ISO film speed:

The ISO settings define how quickly the camera

takes the picture. A higher ISO number means the

camera will take the picture quickly, so there's less

chance of blurry pictures. This is especially useful

for intraoral pictures.

To set the ISO settings, hold down the flash button

on the back of the camera and rotate the "Command

Dial" located at the top of the camera as shown:

The letters ISO should appear in the Control Panel.

You should stop rotating the dial when ISO 400

appears.

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Adjust image quality:

Click on the

the back of the camera until

the FINE option is displayed.

Shooting Mode

General settings:

To take intraoral images, the camera must be switched to the Macro Close-up

mode. To activate this mode, press the AF button

the Control Panel and the LCD monitor. The Anytime Flash mode should be

turned on as well.

Adjusting Aperture Priority:

For a better depth of field, you should adjust the Aperture settings. Setting the cam-

era on "Aperture Priority" allows you to adjust the camera so you can take pictures

where the foreground and the background are both sharp. This is crucial for intra-

oral photographs.

To enable "Aperture Priority", hold down the "Mode" button and rotate the

"Command Dial" located on the top of the camera until the

Next, rotate the "Command Dial" all the way to the right until the you reach an F-

Stop of about 8.0, which appears in the control panel screen at the top of the cam-

era. This fully zooms in the lens, and is ideal when taking intraoral

pictures. You should now hold the camera as close to the subject as

possible before the image goes out of focus.

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Adjust flash settings:

Click on the flash button

button on

back of the camera until the flash

displays only the

enables the Anytime Flash mode.

FINE mode with Anytime

until the

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Flash enabled.

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