Nikon Quick Ceph Coolpix 5000 User manual

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Doc ID# 1028Nikon_5000_help - Revision 3-26-02
Nikon Coolpix 5000 Help
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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.
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 do n on the Function
key on the top of the camera and rotate the command dial. A indo ill 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.
FINE mode with Anytime
Flash enabled.
Adjust image quality:
Click on the button on
the back of the camera until
the FINE option is displayed.
Recommended Settings for Extraoral Photographs
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We suggest using either a wall mounted lightbox with a built-in slave flash or a bare slave flash
to eliminate shado s on the facial photos. If you are using a bare slave flash, e have found that
it orks best hen placed precisely behind the patient’s head, facing to ard a hite 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 ith 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, ith no tilting or
canting. We suggest that you place a mirror in front of the patient ith a vertical line and have them
align themselves to it. This ill make it easier to align the photos to the x-ray tracings. You should
capture the photo ith the camera lens aligned ith the patient’s Frankfurt Horizontal plane to
ensure the most accuracy.
Yo r Control Panel
sho ld look like this.
Adjust flash settings:
Click on the flash button on the
back of the camera until the flash
displays only the symbol. This
enables the Anytime Flash mode.
eneral settings:
To take intraoral images, the camera must be s itched to the Macro Close-up
mode. To activate this mode, press the AF button until the icon appears in
the Control Panel and the LCD monitor. The Anytime Flash mode should be
turned on as ell.
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For intraoral photographs, e 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 follo ing the steps
described above.
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Adjusting ISO film speed:
The ISO settings define ho quickly the camera
takes the picture. A higher ISO number means the
camera ill 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 do n the flash button
on the back of the camera and rotate the “Command
Dial” located at the top of the camera as sho n:
The letters ISO should appear in the Control Panel.
You should stop rotating the dial hen ISO 400
appears.
3Adjusting Aperture Priority:
For a better depth of field, you should adjust the Aperture settings. Setting the cam-
era on “Aperture Priority” allo s you to adjust the camera so you can take pictures
here the foreground and the background are both sharp. This is crucial for intra-
oral photographs.
To enable “Aperture Priority”, hold do n the “Mode” button and rotate the
“Command Dial” located on the top of the camera until the icon appears:
Next, rotate the “Command Dial” all the ay to the right until the you reach an F-
Stop of about 8.0, hich appears in the control panel screen at the top of the cam-
era. This fully zooms in the lens, and is ideal hen taking intraoral
pictures. You should no hold the camera as close to the subject as
possible before the image goes out of focus.
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Recommended Settings for Intraoral Photographs
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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.
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Shooting Mode

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Doc ID# 1028Nikon_5000_help - Revision 3-26-02
Nikon Coolpix 5000 Help
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Please Note: We only recommend this camera. We do not manufacture it. If you have technical difficulties,
please contact Nikon Support at 1-800-645-6689.
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We recommend pur-
chasing an additional
Nikon EN-EL1
rechargeable Li-ion
battery. The pro-
grammed settings
will be lost if the bat-
teries are taken out
of the camera for
more than 2 hours.
Adjusting the Metering:
Metering allo s the camera to determine ho much light is necessary for
illuminating a certain picture. You should use Center-Weighted Metering
for intraoral pictures, as it allo s you to preserve background detail hile
providing the right amount of light output for the teeth. To select this, click
on the Menu button on the back of the camera and use the Selector button
to navigate to the Metering option, as sho n belo . When Center-
Weighted is highlighted, push on the right arro of the Selector button to
select.
Adjust the Speedlight settings:
To eliminate overexposure for intraoral pictures, you can adjust the flash
output of Nikon’s Speedlight. To do this, click on the Menu button on the
back of the camera. Then, click on the left arro of the Selector Button.
Scroll do n to the “S” option and click to the right. The screen ill sho
“Setup 1” at the top. Scroll do n past the last option on this page to get to
“Speedlight Opt.” Click to the right and select “Variable Po er”.
We recommend using a setting of -1.3 for frontal and buccal intraorals.
Ho ever, you may need to adjust this value to fit the lighting in your
office.
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Selector Button
After all of the settings
have been selected, the
Control Panel at the top of
the camera should resem-
ble the image shown
below.
Manual Mode with:
Macro setting
Anytime Flash
ISO 400 setting
Aperture Priority
Center Weighted Metering
Reduced Flash output
Tips for Taking Intraoral Images
To take intraoral images, zoom-in the lens fully and physically move the camera a ay from the
patient’s mouth until the image comes into focus. This is recommended because the flash is further
from the patient’s mouth, decreasing the possibility of overexposure. Also, this gives you more room
to crop the image, as ell as room to position the rectractors and mirrors. We recommend taking the
frontal and buccal intraoral pictures about 8 to 10 inches from the patient’s mouth. Although this may
seem far, ith the camera’s high resolution, you ill not lose clarity hen cropping the images. When
you are taking the frontal and buccal intraoral pictures, make sure to take the picture at a 90º angle to
the teeth. Also, try to align the horizontal plane of the camera ith the patient’s occlusal plane. This
ill save time, as you ill not have to rotate the image inside Quick Ceph later.
For the occlusal pictures, e recommend taking the images approximately 10 inches a ay from the
patient’s mouth. Due to the height of the flash, taking the image closer ould result in the patient’s
lips obscuring the flash.
Occlusal pictures tend to be darker than the frontal and buccal pictures. We recommend
increasing the aperture of these pictures by one or t o F-stops by rotating the Command
Dial slightly to the left. You can also set the camera to the A-mode and turn on the
Macro feature. For upper occlusal images taken ith a mirror, e recommend flipping
the camera upside do n to eliminate shado ing. Please remember to horizontally flip
the image hen you import it into Quick Ceph. Other ise, the image ill be displayed
horizontaly inverted.
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If the occlusal pic-
tures appear too
dark, you should set
the camera to the A-
mode and turn on
the Macro. This
adds more light to
the occlusal pictures.
Command Dial
Adj sting Images While in QCIPro and QC2000
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Images taken hile the camera is flipped upside do n can be rotated easily in QC2000 and QCIPro.
For information on image editing, please see Chapter 2 in the Quick Ceph Manual (do nloadable
from .quickceph.com).