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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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tweaked this function so that it more accurately shows
when you will be generating areas that have no usable
highlight detail.
Focus area
Adds an overlay to the information
displayed on the main image page on the
color LCD. The overlay shows the
location of the focus sensor that was
used for focusing highlighted in red.
It may be a little hard to see in this example, as it
is on the top of the red roof just to the right of
center.
You may not want all of these options turned on once you’ve
learned how to use the camera as they increase the number of
key presses needed to cycle through the review pages for an
individual image. However, as you’re learning how your
D300 works, I think it’s important to have all of these options
active and use them to review what the camera is doing.
Over time, you’ll probably want to just select
RGB
histogram
. Remember, with
RGB histogram
active you can
still get the overall highlights display as well as ones for the
individual channels by holding the Thumbnail button (
±
) at
the same time as pressing the
>
key on the Direction pad to
highlight which channel(s) you want highlights for. Note that
the flashing black that represents the blown out area will
always be for the channel indicator that blinks in the lower
left corner of the LCD (the selected channel also has a yellow
border around its histogram). You can scroll through the
highlight setting for each channel as well as the overall image
exposure (there’s also a “none” selection).
