Shooting (film) menu, Camera icon) – Nikon D200 User Manual
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SHOOTING (FILM) MENU
(camera icon)
How to Get There
Press MENU, click left and then up and down to select the camera (shooting) menu. You'll
then see "SHOOTING MENU" on the top of the screen when you select it.
What it Sets
It sets parameters related to what film used to do. The Shooting Menu sets ISO, grain,
contrast, color and a zillion other critical things that set the look of your images.
The shooting menu would make more sense if it were called the Film menu, since many
other menus also affect shooting.
What I Change
I change a lot here. This is where I make the D200 give me the wild colors I love.
Clarification and Complaints
A more sensible icon would have been a piece of film si
(pencil menu) has more to do with shooting and camera mechanical settings than the
Shooting Menu does.
Don't worry about what is in what menu. It doesn't make complete sense and you'll forget
is the only way I find most of the menus I use,
which is great except that that menu doesn't recall items from every menu!
is great. Its menus ma
structure as the D200.
OK, enough whining. Here's how to use everything and what it does.
I use Nikon's menu names in bold, and then explain them in simple English.
Shooting Menu Bank
Shooting Menu Banks are presets which store combinations of the settings you will set in
the Shooting Menu. These Shooting Menu Banks don't store everything I'd like them to.
They aren't Shooting Settings; they are Film settings. Drive and focus modes aren't
remembered with them.
You have four memory positions: A, B C, and D. Nikon was stupid to use the same names,
A, B, C and D, instead of
confuse me and I have an engineering degree.
You can add a name to each one. I set my A bank for normal operation with the settings I
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