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Monitor Brightness: This option enables you to make the display
brighter or darker. But if you take this step, what you see on the monitor
may not be an accurate rendition of the picture exposure. I recommend
that you keep the brightness at the default setting (0).
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Clean Image Sensor: Your camera is set up at the factory to perform an
internal cleaning routine each time you turn the camera on or off. This
cleaning system is designed to keep the image sensor — that's the part
of the camera that actually captures the image — free of dust and dirt.
By choosing the Clean Image Sensor menu item, you can perform a clean-
ing at any time, however. Just choose the menu item, press OK, select
Clean Now, and press OK again. (Nikon recommends that you set the
camera on a solid surface, base down, when you perform the cleaning.)
Don't try to perform the cleaning several times in a row — if you do, the
camera will temporarily disable the function to protect itself.
The other Clean Image Sensor option, Clean At Startup/Shutdown, enables
you to specify whether you want the camera to change from the default
setting (cleaning at startup and shutdown) to clean only at startup, only
at shutdown, or never. I suggest that you stick with the default.
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Lock Mirror Up for Cleaning: This feature is necessary for cleaning the
camera ' s image sensor. I don't recommend that you tackle this operation
yourself because you can easily damage the camera if you don't know
what you're doing. And if you've previously used mirror lock-up on an
SLR camera to avoid camera shake when shooting long-exposure images,
note that as the menu name implies, this camera ' s mirror lock-up is pro-
vided for cleaning purposes only. You can't take pictures on the D3300
while mirror lock-up is enabled.
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Image Dust Off Ref Photo: This feature records an image that serves
as a point of reference for the automatic dust-removal filter available in
Nikon Capture NX 2. I don't cover this accessory software, which must
be purchased separately, in this book.
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Beep: By default, your camera beeps after certain operations, such as
after it sets focus when you shoot in autofocus mode. You can adjust
the beep volume or disable the beep through this menu option. In the
Information display and default Live View display, a musical note icon
appears when the beep is enabled. Turn off the beep, and the icon
appears in a circle with a slash through it.
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File Number Sequence: This option controls how the camera names your
picture files. When the option is set to Off, as it is by default, the camera
restarts file numbering at 0001 every time you format the memory card
or insert a new memory card. Numbering is also restarted if a new image-
storage folder is created, a topic you can explore in Chapter 12 .
Chapter 1: Getting Up and Running
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