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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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color LCD coupled with the interpolation the camera is
doing on the thumbnail will make it harder to see the
actual focus point.
• Learn to recognize what triggers moiré.
Any regular
pattern of small detail can trigger the dreaded moiré. This
colored pattern is even more difficult to remove from
images than noise. Changing focal length and camera-to-
subject distance are your only real tools in reducing
moiré. Fortunately, it takes a small, tight pattern to trigger
moiré on the D300, and these don’t occur as often as the
patterns that trigger the problem on the D70.
Which Type of Photographer are You?
Most D300 users will fall into one of two camps of
photographers:
• “I want mostly automatic.”
This type of photographer
wants the quality a DSLR produces, but generally doesn’t
want to have to pay a lot of attention to details. They’re
likely to drop their photos off to a lab to be printed, and
less likely to crack open a software program to “fix” or
adjust their images after the fact.
• “I’m willing to invest time to get it right.”
This type of
photographer wants the very best quality images they can
produce with their D300, and is willing to spend as much
time and energy that it takes to get everything right.
The first of these—the automatic shooters—should probably
have their camera set the following way most of the time
(note that the settings shown with an *, are
not the camera
defaults,
so you’ll have to set them manually once):
Long exp NR
On*
High ISO NR
Off*
Image
Quality Fine
Image
Size Large
JPEG Compression Optimal Quality*
White Balance
Auto
ISO
200 or 400, as appropriate*
