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Part I: Fast Track to Super Snaps
Viewing critical picture settings
Your D3300 gives you the following ways to monitor the most important
picture-taking settings:
Figure 1-15 :
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Some lights may interfere with the Live View display. The operating fre-
quency of some types of lights, including fluorescent and mercury-vapor
lamps, can create electronic interference that causes the monitor display
to flicker or exhibit odd color banding. Changing the Flicker Reduction
option on the Setup menu may resolve this issue. At the default setting,
Auto, the camera gauges the light and chooses the right setting for you.
But you also can choose from two specific frequencies: 50 Hz and 60 Hz.
(In the United States and Canada, the standard frequency is 60 Hz; in
Europe, it's 50 Hz.)
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Information screen (viewfinder photography): The left screen in Figure 1-15
gives you a look at the Information screen available for viewfinder pho-
tography. The screen appears when you first turn on the camera and then
disappears after a few seconds. To redisplay it, take any of these steps:
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Press the Info button. Press once to display the screen; press again
to turn off the monitor.
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Press the shutter button halfway and release it. Pressing and holding the
button halfway down turns off the screen and fires up the autofocus-
ing and exposure metering systems. Because those two systems use
battery power, avoid this technique when the battery is running low.
In this book, I explain the display as it works by default. But you can
modify its behavior via the Setup menu; look for details in Chapter 12 .
Press the Info button to view picture-taking settings on the monitor.
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