Nikon D7000 manual Adjusting Diopter Correction, Inserting a Secure Digital Memory Card

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

Adjusting Diopter Correction

Those of us with less than perfect eyesight can often benefit from a little optical cor- rection in the viewfinder. Your contact lenses or glasses may provide all the correction you need, but if you are a glasses wearer and want to use the D7000 without your glasses, you can take advantage of the camera’s built-in diopter adjustment, which can be var- ied from –3 to +1 correction. Press the shutter release halfway to illuminate the indica- tors in the viewfinder, then rotate the diopter adjustment dial next to the viewfinder (see Figure 1.7) while looking through the viewfinder until the indicators appear sharp.

Diopter correction wheel

If more than one person uses your D7000, and each requires a different diopter setting on the camera itself, you can save a little time by noting the number of clicks and direc- tion (clockwise to increase the diopter power; counterclockwise to decrease the diopter value) required to change from one user to the other. Should the available correction be insufficient, Nikon offers nine different Diopter-Adjustment Viewfinder Correction lenses for the viewfinder window, ranging from –5 to +3, at a cost of $15-$20 each.

Inserting a Secure Digital Memory Card

You’ve probably set up your D7000 so you can’t take photos without a memory card inserted. (There is a No Memory Card? entry, Custom Settings menu CSM #f8 that enables/disables shutter release functions when a memory card is absent—learn about that in Chapter 9.) So, your final step will be to insert a memory card. Slide the door on the back right edge of the body towards the back of the camera to release the cover, and then open it. (You should only remove a memory card when the camera is switched off, or, at the very least, the yellow-green memory access light that indicates the camera is writing to the card is not illuminated.)

Figure 1.7

Viewfinder diopter correc- tion from –3 to +1 can be dialed in.