When you are looking at your pictures in playback mode, you can turn on the highlight function to check your exposure. What this will do is take the part of the picture that is too bright and has lost all detail and blink it on and off to highlight it. If a large portion of the image is highlighted in this way, you have overexposed the picture, or the contrast in the frame is far too high.
To turn on the highlights, press down twice in playback mode. The first press will take you to the histogram, and the second to the highlight.
To turn off the highlights in the Nikon D40, press up twice to go back to the normal playback mode.
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January 14, 2012
January 13, 2012
Nikon D40 Self timer
To turn on the self timer on the Nikon D40, go to the Custom Setting Menu (pencil icon). Go to item 4: Shooting mode.
Choose Self Timer to enable the self timer mode.
The wait duration of the Self timer can be set on a separate menu, this is item 16: Self-timer. You can choose between 2, 5, 10 and 20 seconds.
2 seconds is useful when taking photos at night, you can press the shutter and take you hand off to prevent camera shake by pressing the shutter. 10 seconds is the classic time needed to press the shutter and run back to join your friends. 20 seconds is better if you have to run a long distance!
Read about the Nikon ML-L3 Remote Control to see how you can avoid all this running!
Choose Self Timer to enable the self timer mode.
The wait duration of the Self timer can be set on a separate menu, this is item 16: Self-timer. You can choose between 2, 5, 10 and 20 seconds.
2 seconds is useful when taking photos at night, you can press the shutter and take you hand off to prevent camera shake by pressing the shutter. 10 seconds is the classic time needed to press the shutter and run back to join your friends. 20 seconds is better if you have to run a long distance!
Read about the Nikon ML-L3 Remote Control to see how you can avoid all this running!
January 4, 2012
Nikon D40 - How to format the memory card
Formatting the memory card on the D40 is very easy.
Go in to the menu, by pressing the button MENU (obviously). Scroll down until you get to the little spanner icon, which is the SETUP MENU.
Formatting the memory card is the second option on this menu, scroll over to it and click ok to be greeted with the warning:
Confirm to format the memory card.
And then 2 seconds later: Voila!
Empty memory card.
Go in to the menu, by pressing the button MENU (obviously). Scroll down until you get to the little spanner icon, which is the SETUP MENU.
Nikon D40 - Histogram
In playback mode, you can display the histogram for the picture by pressing down on the thumb switch.
This will show a single histogram. To make the histogram go away, press up on the thumb switch.
You can also view a histogram for each color separately. In order to do this, press OK on the thumb switch to call up the Retouch Menu, choose Filter Effects and then choose Color Balance.
Pressing the play button takes you back to normal playback mode.
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