that Nikon used the Camera icon for the shooting menu (page20), which really should be called the Film menu. Camera settings, like focus, flash and timers, are set here in the Custom Settings Menu, shown by a pencil. This is Nikon's mistake; don't penalize yourself if it makes little sense.

How to Get Here

Press MENU, go to the left and select up and down to the pencil icon. You'll see CUSTOM SETTING MENU on the top of the color LCD.

What it Does

This menu sets many things related to the camera and taking pictures, like autofocus, exposure, timers, flash and more.

What I Change

I change a lot here, so read on.

[R] Reset

This resets everything in this menu to its defaults. I don't use this, unless my camera was loaned out.

01 Beep

Turn this OFF!!!

This is the idiotic and annoying focus confirmation beep. Turn it off!

The beep annoys others and is very rude. Focus confirmation is indicated by a dot in the lower left of the finder.

02 Focus Mode

This sets the autofocus mode for still or moving subjects.

AF-A, the default I use, magically selects between the next two modes.

AF-Sstands for AF-Single. The D40 focuses once, then locks AF for you to recompose and shoot.

AF-Cstands for AF-Continuous. The D40 keeps focusing as the subject moves. Use this for sports and vehicles in motion, like cars, birds and aircraft.

MF Is manual focus. I'm unsure why'd you'd use this setting, since lenses that autofocus on the D40 (AF-S and AF-I) have these switches on the lenses, and older AF lenses that can't autofocus on the D40 default to manual focus whether you want them to or not.. I suspect this option is here because it isn't anyplace else on the D40, and there probably is, or will be, lenses that need this to revert to manual focus.

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