My Menu and Recent Settings

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Red Bird Snacking – Courtesy of Dennis H. Miller (dhmiller)

As you have read through this book and experimented with your camera, you’ve surely noticed that the D800 has a large number of menus, screens, functions, and settings. When I took pictures of the camera’s menus and screens for this book, I ended up with hundreds of images. That many screens can be somewhat complex to navigate. We need a shortcut menu for our most-used settings—a place to keep the functions we’re constantly changing.

Nikon has given us two specialty menus in the D800: My Menu and Recent Settings. These are both designed to give us exactly what ...

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