Nikon D7000 manual Copy Images

220David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

■Highlights. When enabled, overexposed highlight areas in your image will blink with a black border during picture review. That’s your cue to consider using expo- sure compensation to reduce exposure, unless a minus-EV setting will cause loss of shadow detail that you want to preserve. You can read more about correcting expo- sure in Chapter 4.

■RGB histogram. Displays both luminance (brightness) and RGB histograms on a screen that can be displayed using the up/down multi selector buttons, as shown in Chapter 2. If you’re viewing this histogram with the Highlights display enabled, you can change the Highlights focus from the luminance histogram to any of the three RGB channels by holding down the Thumbnail button and pressing the multi selector right button until the channel you want is selected. I explain the use of this feature in more detail in Chapter 4.

■Data. Activates the four pages of shooting data shown in Chapter 3. (Flip back to Figures 3.20 through 3.23 if you need a refresher.)

Copy Image(s)

The ability to work with two memory cards simultaneously ranks as my absolutely favorite feature of the Nikon D7000, way ahead of movie making by a long shot. One of the best uses for two cards is to make back-up images while traveling, or at any other time that your computer isn’t easily accessible. Here are some examples of what I do:

■Shoot to two cards simultaneously. This gives you an instant backup in case pic- tures on your primary card become corrupt or are erased. Ideally, your two cards should be equal in size.

■Make a copy. Use this Copy Image(s) facility to make a copy of images you shot on one card to your second card. Instead of shooting on two cards at once (which does slow down the D7000 a bit), use only one card when you take photos, then make a backup onto a second card at the end of the day. You can copy all or only some of the photos you’ve shot.

■Make copies to distribute. I bought a bunch of 2GB SD cards for $4.98 each, and find it’s quick and easy to make multiple copies of photos, not for backup, but for distribution either on the spot, say, to provide models I’ve hired with some raw (not RAW) images, or to send by snail mail to colleagues, friends, or family that I want to share photos with. No computer required!

■Leave your PSD at home. Since I’ve begun using Nikon cameras with dual mem- ory card slots, I leave my hard disk/personal storage device with its built-in reader at home more often. If I am going to be gone for only a day or two, it’s easier to just make copies in the camera, and not bother with another external device.