Menus
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Unsurprisingly the D90's menus have been updated to match the other cameras in Nikon's current range. Although you don't get the almost limitless customization offered by the professional cameras you do get a lot more than the D60. The attractively designed menus make full use of the high resolution screen and are navigated using the multi-way controller and OK button. You can also configure the command dials to provide menu navigation.
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Help pages
In common with all current Nikon DLSRs the D90 has the useful help feature we first saw on the D2X - there are now help pages for virtually every function and menu on the camera - just press the Lock/? button to view.
Playback menu
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Option |
Values / Actions |
Notes |
Delete |
Selected
Select Date
All |
- Thumbnail selection |
Playback folder |
NCD90
All Current |
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Hide image |
Select / set
Select Date
Deselect all? |
- Thumbnail selection |
Display mode |
Done
Highlights
RGB Histogram
Data |
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Image review |
Off
On |
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After delete |
Show next
Show previous
Continue as before |
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Rotate tall |
On
Off
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When enabled portrait shots appear vertically orientated. |
Pictmotion |
• Start
• Select Pictures
Selected
Select Date
All
• Background Music
1. High Speed
2. Emotional
3. Natural
4. Up-tempo
5. Relaxed
• Effects
1. Zoom Bounce
2. Zoom in/out
3. Blend
4. Wipe
5. Zoom out fade
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Advanced slideshows with music and transition effects |
Slide show |
Start
Frame interval
2 sec
3 sec
5 sec
10 sec |
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Print set (DPOF) |
Select / set
Deselect all? |
- Thumbnail selection |
Shooting menu
A green superscript
one (¹) indicates the default
setting.
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Option |
Values / Actions |
Notes / Sub options |
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
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)
Portrait
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)
Landscape
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)
[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 |
Image quality |
NEF (RAW) + JPEG Fine
NEF (RAW) + JPEG Normal
NEF (RAW) + JPEG Basic
NEF (RAW)
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 |
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
- "
- "
- "
- "
- "
- "
- 2500 K - 10000 K
- Select / program preset WB |
ISO sensitivity settings |
ISO sensitivity
Auto
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
ISO sensitivity auto control
On / Off ¹
Maximum sensitivity
 400
 800
 1600
 3200 ¹
 HI 1
Minimum shutter speed
 1/2000 - 1 sec |
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Active D-Lighting |
Auto ¹
Extra High
High
Normal
Low
Off |
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Color Space |
sRGB ¹
Adobe RGB |
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Long exp. NR |
On
Off ¹ |
Enables dark frame subtraction NR for exposures of 1/2 sec or longer. |
High ISO NR |
High
Normal¹
Low
Off |
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Active folder |
Select Folder
New
Rename
• Delete |
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Multiple exposure |
Done
Number of shots
2 or 3
Auto gain
On
Off |
Create a new image from two or three exposures. |
Movie Settings |
• Quality
1280 x 720 (16:9)
640 x 424 (3:2)
320 x 216 (3:2)
Sound
On
Off
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