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

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

Figure 3.6

You can see the controls clustered along the top edge of the back panel in Figure 3.7. The key buttons and components and their functions are as follows:

■Playback button. Press this button to review images you’ve taken, using the con- trols and options I’ll explain in the next section. To remove the displayed image, press the Playback button again, or simply tap the shutter release button.

■Trash/Format #1. Press to erase the image shown on the LCD. A display will pop up on the LCD asking you to press the Trash button once more to delete the photo, or press the Playback button to cancel. Hold down this button and the metering mode button on the top-right surface of the camera (both are marked with red Format labels). “For” will appear in the monochrome status LCD. Choose which memory card you want to erase (rotate the main command dial). Press the buttons again to begin formatting your memory card.

■Viewfinder eyepiece. You can frame your composition by peering into the viewfinder. It’s surrounded by a soft rubber frame that seals out extraneous light when pressing your eye tightly up to the viewfinder, and it also protects your eyeglass lenses (if worn) from scratching. It can be removed and replaced by the DK-5 eyepiece cap when you use the camera on a tripod, to ensure that light com- ing from the back of the camera doesn’t venture inside and possibly affect the expo- sure reading. Shielding the viewfinder with your hand may be more convenient (unless you’re using the self-timer to get in the photo yourself).

■Diopter adjustment wheel. Rotate this to adjust the diopter correction for your eyesight, as described in Chapter 1.