Nikon® D300s For Dummies®

Chapter 10. Ten More Ways to Customize Your Camera

In This Chapter

• Creating and saving custom menu banks

• Adding copyright data and hidden text to picture files

• Using your own folder and filenames

• Changing the behavior of some buttons and dials

Have you ever tried to cook dinner in someone else's house or work from another colleague's desk? Why is nothing stored in the right place? The coffee cups, for example, should be stowed in the cabinet above the coffee maker, and yet there they are, way across the kitchen, in the cupboard near the fridge. And everyone knows that the highlighter pens belong in the middle top drawer, not the second one on the left. Yeesh.

In the same way, you may consider a particular aspect of the D300s design illogical or maybe just a tad inconvenient. You may find it more natural to use the command dial on the front of the camera to perform most operations rather than the one on the back, for example — which is the exact opposite of the way things are set up at the factory.

Well, as you've no doubt already deduced, Nikon is more than eager to let you customize almost every aspect of the camera's operation, from limiting the number of autofocus points in use to deciding which picture you want to see next after you delete a photo. In fact, about the only thing you can't customize is the way the battery fits into the battery compartment.

This chapter discusses ten customization ...