Nikon D40X Review: Digital Photography Review

Menus (contd.)

Single / multiple image selection

Several options in the Play and Retouch menus require you to select images (for printing, deletion etc.), this is carried out using a six image thumbnail selector. There are two types of selector; one which allows single image selection and the other which allows multiple selections (it has the 'Set' option) before executing the task.

Playback Menu


Option	Values / Actions	Notes
Delete	• Selected Thumbnail select (multi) • All
Playback folder	• Current • All
Rotate tall	• Off • On	When enabled portrait shots appear vertically orientated
Slide show	• Start • Frame interval 2 s 3 s 5 s 10 s
Print Set (DPOF)	• Select / set Thumbnail select (multi) • Deselect all?

Retouch Menu

The ability to 'retouch' your images in-camera is new feature which was introduced with the D80. Nikon has provided a fairly good range of retouching options such as their 'digital fill flash' D-lighting, Red-eye correction and even color filter effects. Note that retouching always results in a new image (the original is never altered), retouching can be applied to JPEG or RAW images but always results in a JPEG.


Option	Values / Actions	Notes
D-lighting	• Thumbnail select (single) Normal Moderate Enhanced Cancel / Zoom / Save
Red-eye correction	• Thumbnail select (single) Zoom / Save	Only available for images where the flash was used
Trim	• Thumbnail select (single) Size 2560 x 1920 1920 x 1440 1280 x 960 920 x 720 640 x 480 Pan trim area Cancel / Save	Oddly only allows trimming to 4:3 aspect ratio sizes.
Monochrome	• Black-and-white Thumbnail select (single) Save • Sepia Thumbnail select (single) Lighter / Darker Save • Cyanotype Thumbnail select (single) Lighter / Darker Save
Filter effects	• Sky light Thumbnail select (single) Save • Warm filter Thumbnail select (single) Save • Color balance Thumbnail select (single) Red to Blue Green to Magenta Cancel / Done
Small picture	• Select picture Thumbnail select (multi) Set / Zoom / Done • Choose size 640 x 480 320 x 240 160 x 120
Image overlay	• Image 1 Image Thumbnail sel. (single) Gain (x0.1 - x2.0) • Image 2 Image Thumbnail sel. (single) Gain (x0.1 - x2.0) • Save	Image overlay can combine two RAW images together to produce a combined image, the gain for each image can be adjusted from x0.1 to x2.0 in 0.1 steps.