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Nikon D700 User's Guide:
Custom Setting Menu: Shooting/display

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d1 - d11 Shooting/display

How to Get Here

Press MENU, go to the left and select up and down to the pencil icon. You'll then see CUSTOM SETTING MENU on the color LCD. Click down to d SHOOTING/DISPLAY and click to the right.

What it Does

This menu is a random jumble. These ideally belong in other menus.

What I Change

I change d1 and leave the rest alone.

I'm sorry that Nikon put a menu called Shooting inside a menu called Custom Setting, since it has nothing to do with the larger Shooting Menu. This is something else that needs to be reorganized. Sorry.


d1 Beep        top

Turn this OFF!!!

This is the idiotic and annoying focus confirmation beep. Turn it off, or forever be branded as a rude amateur.


d2 Viewfinder grid display       top

This activates hairlines in the finder. Set them ON to help keep everything straight and level.


d3 Screen tips       top

If you hit the rear INFO button twice, it turns on the big rear LCD and adds the ability to set the critical menu items which appear along the bottom of the LCD.

These "tips" are additional highlighted explanations of what each setting does. I leave this at its default of on.


d4 Cl mode shooting speed        top

This selects the maximum frame rate of the CL (continuous low) frame advance setting. I leave mine on 3 FPS.


d5 Max continuous release        top

This selects the maximum number of continuous shots you can make in the Cl or Ch continuous release modes.

It defaults at 100, and I have no reason to set it to be less. If I want fewer shots, I take my finger off the shutter release.


d6 File number sequence       top

This ensures your file numbers keep counting up. Leave this at its default of ON.

If you change it to OFF, you'll start from DSC_0001 every time you reformat. Over time you'll have hundreds of photos on your computer all called DSC_0001. It will drive you crazy and it will be too late to do anything about it.

If you ever do want to reset to DSC_0001, use the Reset option.


d7 Shooting info display        top

Auto lets the D700 light up the 3" rear LCD with your shooting data in black on light cyan in daylight, or gray on dark blue at night.

Manual lets you fix it at either kind of display.


d8 LCD illumination       top

At default, the top LCD only lights up when you spin the light button located with the power switch. I leave this setting this way.

If you choose ON, the top LCD lights up even in daylight.


d9 Exposure delay mode       top

This makes the D700 wait 4/10s of a second to release the shutter after you press it.

It flips up the mirror first. Try this if you're using a long lens on a tripod with exposures of between 1/60 and 1/2 second, where mirror shake is the biggest problem.

The Mirror Up mode is better for this.


d10 MB-D10 battery type       top

Forget this if you use the usual EN-EL3e batteries in the grip.

If you use AA batteries, set this and you'll get more accurate battery level readings.

Leave this alone if you're using throw-away AA alkaline batteries or the EN-EL3e. Change it if you're using throw-away AA lithium, Ni-MH AA, or crappy throw-away "heavy duty" AA cells.


d11 Battery order        top

If you change this and you're using the grip, this lets you run down the battery in the camera first, so you have to remove the grip to change it.

Leave this setting alone, so it runs down the battery in the grip first, and only then uses the battery in the camera. This makes much more sense, since it's a lot easier to change the battery in the grip, and when you pull the grip, the battery in the camera is going to have a lot more charge.


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KNOBS and BUTTONS

     FRONT

     TOP PANEL

     BACK

MENUS

     PLAYBACK   

     SHOOTING MENU

     CUSTOM SETTING MENU

          a Autofocus

          b Metering/Exposure

          c Timers/AE&AF Lock

          d Shooting/Display

          e Bracketing/Flash < < NEXT

          f Controls

     SET UP MENU

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