Manual Focusing with Nikon CP5700

Note: Manual focus is not available in User Set A (Auto).

  The following assumes that you know something about the camera. I won’t simply repeat the information in the User’s Guide. If you have questions about some of my references, check the Guide to see if that helps. If it doesn’t, by all means send me an email and I’ll try to get you over the hang-up.

Let’s start with the bad news: it’s complicated!

You’ll get something out of the following only if you pick up your camera and do these things as you read. Believe me. It might help to have someone read the procedure to you as you work the camera.

Basic operation

When you release the MF button, the camera stays in Manual Focus mode, and keeps the focus distance you set—unless you again press the MF button momentarily without rotating the Command Dial. (This turns off the MF display and returns the camera to Auto Focus mode. The last Manual Focus distance setting will be retained in memory, however, and returned when you again engage Manual Focus.) To change the focus setting, press and hold the button, and turn the dial.

Note: If you simply press the MF button, the camera will go to the next focus setting in Auto Focus mode sequence—usually infinity, with the little mountain icon showing in the viewfinder/monitor/control panel.

Ordinary Shooting Conditions

With the Zoom Control at full Wide Angle (default on power up), if the Manual Focus scale appears in red, keep turning the Command Dial CCW until the scale changes to white. The camera will then be focused at .31 m. See the table below to estimate the number of clicks of the Dial that will take you near the focus setting you want.

Where the Camera focuses with the Command Dial