Nikon 5700 User Manual

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Menu Guide—Using the SHOOTING Menu

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Making Movies and Taking Pictures in a Sequence: Continuous

The Continuous menu sets how many pictures are
taken when the shutter-release button is pressed (and
held down). A movie option is also included for record-
ing short video clips with audio.

Option

Description

* fps = frames per second

Continuous

High

Maximum of three pictures recorded at three fps* when shutter-re-
lease button is held down. Monitor or viewfinder turns off automat-
ically during shooting. Not available at image quality setting of HI.

Single

Camera records one picture each time shutter-release button
is pressed.

Continuous

Low

Pictures recorded at1.5 fps (three frames every two seconds)
when shutter-release button is held down. Not available at im-
age quality setting of HI.

Multi-shot

Sixteen consecutive “thumbnail” images (640

480 pixels) re-

corded at three fps and combined into a collage (2560

1920

pixels). Image size setting must be FULL. Not available at im-
age quality setting of RAW or HI.

Movie

Records QVGA movies (320

240 pixels) at 15 fps, built-in mi-

crophone records sound. Press shutter-release button all the way
down to start movie. Press all the way down again to end mov-
ie. Movie ends automatically after 60 s or when memory card is
full (

77). Movies stored as QuickTime movie files with names

ending in “.MOV”. Digital zoom is limited to a factor of 2x.

Ultra HS

Records up to 100 QVGA (320

240 pixels) images at NOR-

MAL image quality at 30 fps when shutter-release button is
held down.

Image Size and Shutter Speed

At an image size setting of SXGA, XGA or VGA, and shutter speeds slower than

s, we recommend settings of Single or Continuous Low.