When working in the Shooting or CSM menus you are in actual fact changing
the settings of a 'menu bank'. There are four banks for each of the Shooting
and Custom function menus; A to D, each bank can be given a more meaningful label
and the currently selected bank letter is indicated on the top control
panel for quick reference. This is very useful for quickly switching between
a type of shot or situation.
The D300 has the same help feature we first saw on the D2X, a setting with available help is indicated by a circular question mark icon (?) at the bottom left of the screen. Press and hold the protect button to display a context sensitive help page.
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| Option |
Values / Actions |
Notes / Sub options |
| Shooting menu bank |
• A ¹
• B
• C
• D
• Rename
 Text entry |
Four banks of settings can be memorized and quickly switched,
each bank can be labeled (see above). |
| Reset shooting menu |
• Yes
• No |
|
| Active folder |
• New folder number
• Select folder |
- Create new folder. |
| File naming |
• File naming
Text entry |
Change name prefix (default DSC). |
| Image quality |
• NEF (RAW) + JPEG Fine
• NEF (RAW) + JPEG Normal
• NEF (RAW) + JPEG Basic
• NEF (RAW)
• TIFF (RGB)
• JPEG Fine
• JPEG Normal ¹
• JPEG Basic |
Select image quality. |
| Image size |
• Large ¹
• Medium
• Small |
- 4288 x 2848 / 12.2 M
- 3216 x 2136 / 6.9 M
- 2144 x 1424 / 3.1 M |
| JPEG compression |
• Size priority ¹
• Optimal quality |
|
| NEF (RAW) recording |
• Type
 Lossless compressed ¹
Compressed
Uncompressed
• NEF (RAW) bit depth
12-bit ¹
14-bit |
Set the type of compression used in the NEF file as well as the bit-depth recorded. Note that 14-bit NEF files are about 1.3 times larger than 12-bit NEF and that continuous shooting rate drops to 2.5 fps. |
| White balance |
• Auto ¹
• Incandescent
• Fluorescent
• Direct Sunlight
• Flash
• Cloudy
• Shade
• Choose color temp.
• Preset manual |
- A-B, G-M grid to fine tune WB
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- "
- "
- "
- "
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- 2500 K - 10000 K
- Select / program preset WB |
| Set Picture Control |
• Standard
Quick adjust (-2 to +2)
Sharpening (A, 0 to 9)
Contrast (A, -3 to +3)
Brightness (-1 to +1)
Saturation (A, -3 to +3)
Hue (-3 to +3)
• Neutral
Quick adjust (-2 to +2)
Sharpening (A, 0 to 9)
Contrast (A, -3 to +3)
Brightness (-1 to +1)
Saturation (A, -3 to +3)
Hue (-3 to +3)
• Vivid
Quick adjust (-2 to +2)
Sharpening (A, 0 to 9)
Contrast (A, -3 to +3)
Brightness (-1 to +1)
Saturation (A, -3 to +3)
Hue (-3 to +3)
• Monochrome
Sharpening (A, 0 to 9)
Contrast (A, -3 to +3)
Brightness (-1 to +1)
Filter (Off, Y, O, R, G)
Toning (10 options)
• [custom] |
- Default (3, 0, 0, 0, 0)
- Default (2, 0, 0, 0, 0)
- Default (4, 0, 0, 0, 0)
- Default (3, 0, 0, 0, 0) |
| Manage Picture Control |
• Save/edit
• Rename
• Delete
• Load/save |
- Create custom Picture Control sets
- Load / save from card |
| Color Space |
• sRGB ¹
• Adobe RGB |
|
| Active D-Lighting |
• Enhanced
• Normal
• Moderate
• Off ¹ |
|
| Long exp. NR |
• On
• Off ¹ |
Enables dark frame subtraction NR for exposures of 1/2 sec or longer. |
| High ISO NR |
• High
• Normal
• Low
• Off ¹ |
|
| ISO sensitivity settings |
• ISO
LO 1
LO 0.7
LO 0.3
200 ¹
250
320
400
500
640
800
1000
1250
1600
2000
2500
3200
HI 0.3
HI 0.7
HI 1.0
• ISO sensitivity auto control
On / Off ¹
Maximum sensitivity
 400
800
1600
3200
HI 1 ¹
Minimum shutter speed
1/250 - 1 sec |
Available sensitivities depend on
ISO step custom setting (CSM b2). |
| Live view |
• Live view mode
Hand-held
Tripod
• Release mode
Single frame
Continuous low-speed
Continuous high-speed |
- Phase detect AF
- Contrast detect AF |
| Multiple exposure |
• Done
• Number of shots
2 - 10
• Auto gain
On
Off |
Create a new image from between two and ten exposures. |
| Interval timer shooting |
• Start
Now
Start time
• Interval
[hh:mm:ss]
• Select Intvl*Shots
[000] x [0] = 0001
• Start
Off
On |
Time lapse / interval shooting. |
| Non-CPU Lens Data |
• Focal length
N/A
6 - 45 mm
50 - 180 mm
200 - 4000 mm
• Maximum aperture
N/A
F1.2 - F22 |
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