Nikon D300 User Manual page 97

shooting. You may want to use different names and settings
in each bank; however, you could learn something from how I
configure each of mine:
▪ Bank A – General Purpose: Bank
purpose bank. I use it when I'm just walking around with
my camera doing general photography. I will often
modify the camera's settings when using bank A. I know
to check before shooting when using this bank. I
generally shoot in RAW mode but might switch to JPEG
as needed. This is a completely variable bank, and the
only one I modify regularly.
▪ Bank B – Best Quality RAW:
This is for when I am shooting commercially, with the
best quality my camera can muster. I use this on any type
of shoot that requires me to post-process the images
in-computer. My critical settings for bank
quality at
to Lossless compressed
14-bit, Image size
Neutral (NL)
RGB, Active D-Lighting
Lo 1 (100 ISO). Once set, I rarely modify this bank.
Note: NEF (RAW) bit depth
camera's frame rate from 7 frames per second to 2.5
frames per second. If you are a max-quality sports or
wildlife shooter, you may want to leave it set to
instead.
▪ Bank C – Best Quality JPEG: This bank is for when I
have no time to post-process the images. I need them as
soon as I shoot them but must have maximum quality.
My critical settings for bank
NEF (RAW), with
set to Large,
Picture Control,
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A
NEF (RAW) recording
and NEF (RAW) bit depth
White balance
Color space
to Off, and ISO sensitivity
set to 14-bit
C are Image quality
is my general
B are Image
set
at
to AUTO,
to Adobe
to
will slow the
12-bit
set to