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

306David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

■Flash off. The built-in flash (if elevated) and any external flash attached and pow- ered up will not fire while the Fn button is held down. Handy if you want to tem- porarily disable the flash, say, to take a picture or two by available light, and then return to normal flash operation.

■Bracketing burst. If the Fn button is pressed while exposure or flash bracketing have been activated in Single frame mode, all the shots will be taken, one after another, each time the shutter release is pressed. If Continuous high speed or

Continuous low speed shooting modes (CH or CL) are active (or if white balance bracketing is active), the D7000 will repeat the bracketing bursts for as long as the shutter release button is pressed down.

■Active D-Lighting.Press the Fn button and rotate the main command dial to choose Active D-Lighting.

■+NEF (RAW). If your D7000 is currently set to shoot JPEG only, use this setting so that when you press the Fn button, the next shot will be recorded as a RAW+JPEG set. I use this option when shooting sports or other fast-moving events, then decide to shoot an image, say, along the sidelines, that could benefit from RAW manipulation later.

■Matrix metering. Switch from the current metering mode to Matrix metering while the Fn button is held down. You can use this to switch rapidly, say, from Spot meter- ing to Matrix metering in a single session.

■Center-weighted metering. Switch from the current metering mode to Center- weighted metering while the Fn button is held down.

■Spot metering. Switch from the current metering mode to Spot metering while the Fn button is held down. This is my favorite setting, because I like to switch from Matrix to Spot metering from time to time.

■Framing grid. Hold down the Fn button and rotate the main command dial to turn the framing grid on or off.

■Viewfinder virtual horizon. Press the Fn button to view or hide the Virtual Horizon indicators in the viewfinder. The display shows the degree of tilt of the camera, with the bars to the left and right of center disappearing as the D7000 is leveled. (See Figure 9.12.)

■Access top item in My Menu. Another new option, this one summons the first entry in your My Menu roster. Effectively, you can select any menu item that you access frequently, place it at the top of My Menu (as described in Chapter 10), and jump to that item by pressing the Fn button.