Shooting Information Display; Color Lcd - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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Shooting Information Display

One interesting—but not particularly well thought out—

option the D300 provides allows you to display the shooting

information on the color LCD as well as the top LCD.

This facility at first seems to be an option similar to what the

D40 and D40x use (those cameras don't have a top LCD).

Unfortunately, on the D300 this display is informational only:

you can't set options from it. Moreover, it can only be seen

when the shutter release is not pressed

To activate the display, press the Protect (}) button (also

). You'll see something like the following on your

The main portion of this display (default is black characters on

a light blue background) mimics the top LCD and just

provides you a brighter, easier to read rendering of data that is

already available. The bottom line (white characters on black

background) displayed important other information that isn't

normally available short of looking at values in the menu

system, though.

I suspect Nikon heard the complaints of many D40 and D40x users that this

display is too bright and distracting when looking through the viewfinder while

shooting, and thus now turns it off on the D300 if the camera thinks that's the case

(e.g. you partially press the shutter release). Indeed, the new automatic eye-detection

feature on the Nikon D60 indicates that this is the case.

Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D300