What Is The Rangefinder Button On A Nikon D5500? – Overview

Do you want to know where the rangefinder button is on Nikon D5500?

Let’s find out.

What is the Rangefinder Button on a Nikon D5500?

Step 1: Click the Menu Button

Step 2: Select the Custom Menu.

Step 3: To check if the camera is correctly focused, turn on the exposure indicator.

When using the Exposure Compensation button, note that this function is not available in Shutter Mode M (when the exposure indicator instead shows if the image is correctly exposed).

Nikon D5500

The Nikon D5500 is a new DX-format DSLR camera with no optical low-pass filter (OLPF).

Features

It offers

• A wide ISO range from 100-25,600.
• A 5 fps burst shooting speed
• EXPEED 4 image processor
• A 39-point autofocusing system with nine cross-type sensors
• A 2,016-pixels RGB metering
• HDR mode
• Active D-Lighting

Other Features

Touch Operation

With its new Touch AF feature, the D5500 allows the photographer to select the subject they want to shoot by touching the screen, checking the focusing distance, and pressing the button to take the shot.

With a new Fn button, you can now easily access important features like brightness, volume, and screen rotation without having to press any buttons at all.

• AF point selection
• Aperture
• ISO sensitivity
• AF area mode

Image Quality

The Nikon D5500 produced images of excellent image qualities during the review period.

The D5500 shoots noise-free JPEGs from ISO 100-3200.

ISO 6400 only has a little bit of graininess, whereas the highest speed settings of ISO 12800 (and up) are quite noisy and lose some details and saturation, but they’re still perfectly usable for printing out small photos and for web use.

Sharpening Setting

The photos were slightly soft straight out of the camera at the factory settings and needed some additional sharpening in an image editing program like Photoshop.

Night Photograph

The night photograph was excellent, with the minimum shutter speed of 1/30 second and flash mode allowing you to capture lots of natural lighting.

With the built-in flash turned off, red eyes were not a common occurrence, and when they did happen, they were usually mild and easy to cure by turning the flash to red-reduction mode.

D-lighting

Dynamic-light-optimization (D-Light) is Nikon’s tool for squeezing the full dynamic-light-reproduction (DR) potential out of their sensors.

There are five available settings: off, low, medium, high, extra high, and auto.

Noise

On the Nikon D5500, there are nine ISO settings available, and the ISO can be adjusted by one-third (1/3) of an exposure value (EV).

The Nikon D55000 also has an ISO Sensitivity Auto Control function which allows the camera to automatically adjust the ISO setting when appropriate. If the camera is unable to achieve correct exposure using the selected ISO setting, the camera will automatically increase the ISO setting.

You can set a maximum sensitivity for the image sensor.

File Quality

On the D5500, there are three different file quality settings for JPEG images: Basic, Normal, and High. You can also save your RAW files in Nikon’s proprietary NEF (RAW) image file type.

Sharpening

Out-of-the-cameras photos look good enough without any additional sharpening. However, they could use some extra sharpening if you’re using an image editing software like Adobe Photoshop.

You can also adjust the in-cam sharpening level to match your taste by adjusting the Picture Style settings.

Flash

There are several settings for the pop-up flashes on the D5500 camera including Auto, Fill-In, Red-Eye Reduction, Slow Sync, Red-Eye Reduction with Slow Sync, Reverse Curtaining, and Off. These shots of a white wall were shot at a distance of 1 meter.

HDR

The Nikon D55000 has an HDR mode with 4 levels of manual exposure and auto settings. It only combines 2 shots, one underexposed and one overexposed to create the final image, and is only available when taking pictures in jpeg format.

Picture Controls

Nikon’s Picture Controls are akin to Canon’s Picture Styles in being preset combinations of sharpening, contrast, brightness, saturation, and hue.

There are five different color options for backgrounds: Standard, Neutral, Vibrant, Monochrome, and Portrait.

Effects

Shooting modes provide 10 different creative filters for both still images and videos.

Competitors

Below are some of the competitors of the Nikon D5500.

Canon EOS 700D

The Canon EOS 700D Mark II (called the Canon Eos Rebel T6i in North America) has an improved sensor, which means better photos and video. It also features a touch-sensitive LCD display for easy operation.

Features

Other key features of this camera include

• Burst shooting at 5 frames per second (FPS)
• A vari-angle 3-in. LCD screen with 1,037k dots per inch (dpi)
• ISO range of 100-25,600
• 14-bit image
• Canon’s Digic 5 processor.

Fujifilm X-E2

The new Fujifilm X‑E2 is a faster and more feature-rich version of last year’s X‑E1 compact system camera. It promises improved image quality too.

Olympus E-P5

It’s an old-fashioned compact system camera that’s also incredibly modern, with a beautiful vintage look that harkens back to the 1950s but incorporates some of the most advanced digital technology available today.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7

The Panasonic Lumix GX7 is a new compact digital camera designed for keen photographers.

Features

• Built-in tilting electronic viewfinder
• 16-megapixel sensor
• A 3-inch touch screen
• Pop-up flash
• 60/50p high-definition video,
• Integrated wi-fi and NFC connectivity
• Both lenses and in-body stabilizers
• Stylish Design

Panasonic Lumix GF7

It’s a new entry-level digital camera designed for people who want to take selfies.

Features

The tiny GF7 camera has

• Range of selfie modes
• 180-degree tilting LCD screen
• Integrated Wi-Fi connection and Near Field Communication
• 16-megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor,
• 1080p HD video resolution
• Touchscreen interface

Pentax K-S1

The Pentax K S1 is a new low-cost DSLR camera that comes in 12 different colors.

Features

The 20-megapixels K-S1

• 5.4 fps continuous shooting
• 11-point autofocus system
• 3-inch LCD screen
• Optical viewfinders with 100 percent frame coverage.
• ISO range of 100-51200

Samsung NX3000

It’s a well-equipped new entry-level compact camera.

Features

• 20-megapixel APS-C sensor
• Full HD video
• ISO 100-25,600
• 3 flip-up screen
• 5 fps continuous shots and Wi-Fi/NFC connectivity

Sony A5100

The Sony A5100 is a new mid-range compact digital camera.

Features

The Sony A5100 features

• 24-megapixel APS-C sensor
• A fast hybrid autofocus (AF) system
• 1080p HD movies recorded using XAVC S format
• A 3-inch touchscreen display
• 6 fps burst shooting
• Built-in wif-fi/NFC connectivity
• Pop-up flash

Sony A6000

The Sony A6000 has the fastest autofocus system in the world. It’s small enough to fit into any pocket.

Features

• A 24.3-megapixel camera has an APS HD CMOS Sensor
• 1080p HD movies
• A high-resolution 3-inch OLED display
• Built-in flashes

Conclusion

The Nikon D5500 is a full-frame DSLR camera introduced by Nikon on September 13th, 2015. It replaces the Nikon D5100.

The D5500 has a 24.2MP CMOS sensor with an expanded ISO range from 100 to 25600 (expandable to 50dB) for better low light performance, 1080p HD video recording, built-in Wi‑Fi and NFC connectivity, a 3.2 inch 921k dots LCD monitor, and a new ergonomic design.

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