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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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Recommendations:
1. If you need more battery conservation, change the camera
to a 4-second timeout. You’ll get slightly more exposures
per battery charge (assuming you work quickly and setting
the timeout lower doesn’t force you to trigger the meter
more often).
2. Avoid the 30-second and longer delays, and the
No limit
settings unless you have extra batteries.
3. If you use an external power source, you don’t need to
worry about this setting, as the camera sets a value of
No
limit
as long as power is plugged into the
DC In
socket.
4. Sports photographers tend to like
No limit
(indeed, they
were the ones that asked for it in the first place). Why?
Because they don’t want any lags in their camera, as it
might make the difference between getting “the moment”
and not. If the camera’s metering and focusing system
goes inactive, there’s a very short, but still real delay
before they come up again. Sports photographers love to
just follow action through the viewfinder and be able to
punch the shutter release at any time without worrying
about whether the camera is active or not.
Custom Setting #C3 Self Timer Delay Setting
(Self-timer delay)
The D300 allows you to set four different delay times for the
self timer (the delay time is the time between pressing the
shutter release and the shutter actually being opened for
exposure):
2s
Two
second
delay
5s
Five
second
delay
10s
Ten second delay [default]
20s
Twenty
second
delay
