Nikon D7000 manual Language, Image Comment, Auto Image Rotation, Image Dust Off Ref Photo

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

Language

Choose from 22 languages for menu display, choosing from Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Thai.

Image Comment

The Image Comment is your opportunity to add a copyright notice, personal infor- mation about yourself (including contact info), or even a description of where the image was taken (e.g., Browns Super Bowl 2012), although text entry with the Nikon D7000 is a bit too clumsy for doing a lot of individual annotation of your photos. (But you still might want to change the comment each time, say, you change cities during your trav- els.) The embedded comments can be read by many software programs, including Nikon View NX or Capture NX2.

The standard text entry screen described in Chapter 8 can be used to enter your com- ment, with up to 36 characters available. For the copyright symbol, embed a lowercase “c” within opening and closing parentheses: (c). You can input the comment, turn attachment of the comment On or Off using the Attach Comment entry, and select Done when you’re finished working with comments. If you find typing with a cursor too tedious, you can enter your comment in Nikon Capture NX2 and upload it to the camera through a USB cable.

Auto Image Rotation

Turning this setting On tells the Nikon D7000 to include camera orientation infor- mation in the image file. The orientation can be read by many software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Nikon View NX, and Capture NX2, as well as the Rotate Tall setting in the Playback menu. Turn this feature Off, and none of the software appli- cations or Playback’s Rotate Tall will be able to determine the correct orientation for the image. Nikon notes that only the first image’s orientation is used when shooting con- tinuous bursts; subsequent photos will be assigned the same orientation, even if you rotate the camera during the sequence (which is something I have been known to do myself when shooting sports like basketball).

Image Dust Off Ref Photo

This menu choice lets you “take a picture” of any dust or other particles that may be adhering to your sensor. The D7000 will then append information about the location of this dust to your photos, so that the Image Dust Off option in Capture NX 2 can be used to mask the dust in the NEF image.