Nikon D300 Advanced Menu Walk Through 1 of 6, Tips, Tricks

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Sorry, except for the 10 minute clips this segment is uncut. It's about an hour total.

I walk through the most frequently used features of the D300, and some less frequently used.

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Playback Menu
Display Mode
Highlights
Focus Points
RGB Histogram
Data
Image Review: Default off, I set to On
Rotate Tall: Default on
Shooting Menu
Shooting Menu Bank
Raw types: 12bit vs 14bit / compressed vs uncompressed
Set Picture Control: Vivid vs normal etc
Active D-Lighting
Long Exposure Noise Reduction
High ISO Noise Reduction
ISO Sensitivity Settings
Live Review: Tripod vs Handeld / Single vs Continious
Multiple Exposure: Merge up to 10 photographs
Interval Timer:
Note that I mean 1.5 hours of finished film at 30 Frames per second is the shutter life.
Custom Settings Menu
Custom Settings Bank
Autofocus Sub Menu
AF-C Priority Selection
AF-S Priority Selection
Dynamic Autofocus Area: 9 point vs 21 vs 51 vs 3d-tracking

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Nikon D300 Advanced Menu Walk Through 1 of 6, Tips, Tricks

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  • I love how much you ...

    I love how much you can do with the Nikon in the menu-system, but it's unnecessarily difficult to get it to do what you want (in my opinion). I prefer the Canon UI, because it's less intimidating, but it doesn't seem to do everything I'd like.

    I'm ready for an SLR with a powerful UI that is also easy to use and understand.

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  • Actually the ...

    Actually the LCD-sleep timer is configurable in most nikons, even the point and shoots. I just didn't bother to change mine.

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  • thats one thing i ...

    thats one thing i hate about NIKON, is when you let your screen go for like 5 seconds because your looking at something then it shuts off! and then you have to go back into it..ahahhah...so annoying..why cant they make options to make it longer! lmao


    im picking one of these up real soon! cant wait

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  • That is after 1.5 ...

    That is after 1.5 hours of finished product, not 1.5 hours of shooting. 1.5 hour movie at 30 frames per second will be near 150,000 frames which is the stated shutter duty cycle. That means if you make a time laps movie that plays at 30 fps, and runs 7 minutes long, you'll have used 5% of your shutter life creating it.

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  • at 6.21 you talk ...

    at 6.21 you talk about that and how you'll need service after just one and a half hours.

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