Some Hints and Tips on the Nikon D300

!±8± Some Hints and Tips on the Nikon D300

The new Nikon D300 is a marvelous camera with a lot of extra functions over the D200. The larger viewing screen for one, is a big plus and is really just a mini LCD screen.

BUT like all cameras there are many shortcuts and ways to do things that are not always obvious, unless you read and understand the small novel of an instruction book that comes with the camera. What this article is about is showing a few basic shortcuts that will help make life a bit easier.

THE first simple one is that just by hitting the the info button (the one with the Key symbol) just below the Menu button, you get a display of all the camera information that is in the top info panel, very easy to see especially if your eyesight is not as good as it was.

YOU can make all your normal adjustments and they will change as you alter them. The next thing is a quick way to zoom in on the subject, this is the way to set it up. Push the Menu button, then using the multi-selector button go to the Pencil icon.

Scroll down to "f Controls"

Right click on the multi-selector button which will show, "Multi-Selector Centre Button".

Right click again and go to Playback Mode" Right click and go to "Zoom on/off

Again right click and you will have 3 options, Low, Medium or High, pick which one suits you best. Medium or High for checking focus, Low to get in close to see facial expressions when doing a portrait, you can still use the plus and minus buttons on the left to move in closer or move out as normal. And you can still use the scroll wheel to flick through all your photographs at the same magnification.

ONE other thing that could be of great use is that you can set up the back scroll wheel to flip through the photographs instead of using the Multi selector wheel.

This time go to f 7 "Customize Command Dials" right click and go down to "Menus and Playback" Click that to "ON"

AND one last tip, make sure that the f 9 "No memory card" is set to lock, that way you will not accidentally take photographs without a card in the camera.

Hope these will be of use to you.