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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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Shooting Information Display
One interesting—but not particularly well thought out—
option the D300 provides allows you to display the shooting
information on the color LCD as well as the top LCD.
This facility at first seems to be an option similar to what the
D40 and D40x use (those cameras don’t have a top LCD).
Unfortunately, on the D300 this display is informational only:
you can’t set options from it. Moreover, it can only be seen
when the shutter release is
not
pressed
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.
To activate the display, press the Protect (
}
) button (also
marked
info
). You’ll see something like the following on your
color LCD:
The main portion of this display (default is black characters on
a light blue background) mimics the top LCD and just
provides you a brighter, easier to read rendering of data that is
already available. The bottom line (white characters on black
background) displayed important other information that isn’t
normally available short of looking at values in the menu
system, though.
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I suspect Nikon heard the complaints of many D40 and D40x users that this
display is too bright and distracting when looking through the viewfinder while
shooting, and thus now turns it off on the D300 if the camera thinks that’s the case
(e.g. you partially press the shutter release). Indeed, the new automatic eye-detection
feature on the Nikon D60 indicates that this is the case.
