Rear controls – Nikon D200 User Manual
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REAR CONTROLS
BKT: Bracketing.
I don't use bracketing. Hold it and spin the two control rings on the
right of the camera while looking at the top LCD to choose how many shots and the
exposure increments. Nikon always has designed their cameras defectively here: you
have to make as many exposures as the bracket sequence is expecting. If you count
wrong, your next shot will be at some weird exposure offset from the last shot. Canon had
this down years ago: you held down the shutter and made as many auto bracketed
exposures as you wanted. When you stopped, so did the bracketing sequence.
Trash (doubles as one of the two
FORMAT
buttons):
With an image on the
LCD, press once. You'll get an "Are you sure?" message. Press again and the shot's gone.
The D200 ignores this button if it's not playing back.
Hold this along with its brother (the MODE button) to format a memory card.
Play [>] Button:
Press it to see your pictures. Press again to turn them off.
There are a lot of trick play modes. My favori
.
MENU:
This gets you inside your D200.
I'll cover what you can screw up with this in the 11 long pages that follow.
Checkerboard Button:
Hold it and turn the rear dial to selector one, four or nine shots
up at once.
TRICK: Hold the checkerboard and spin the front knob to flip quickly between these
pages of images!
? / Key:
Playback: It protects (locks) the image from erasure. Warning 1.): it marks the file so well
that it won't empty out of my trash on my computer unless I go in and remark the file on my
computer first. Warning 2.): these images are erased from your memory card when you
format anyway. Now you see why I don't use the lock feature.
Menus: Press for more information about whatever you're setting.
TRICK: Hold the "?" as you turn on the power and the D200 creates a new folder and
saves the new images you make to it. This is extremely handy because when you
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