Menu Settings - Nikon D5100 Experience Manual

Nikon D5100 Experience
Place your Mode Dial on A before you go through these settings because they may not all appear
in the Menus if your camera is set on one of the Auto or Scene Modes. Some of these items are
self-explanatory or are discussed later in the text, and thus I won't go into detail about them here.

Menu Settings

Figure 4 – Playback Menu
Playback Menu
Delete
Use this to delete a single image, a selected group of images, all images taken on a specific date,
or all images in the current folder. However, if you are deleting all the images on a card, it is
better to use Format Memory Card (see Setup Menu below).
Playback Folder
This sets which images will be visible during Playback. Leave on the default setting Current and
all the images taken with this camera will be visible, unless you create additional folders (see
Shooting Menu). If you are sharing memory cards between different cameras (which is not at all
recommended), or creating additional folders then you can select All.
Playback Display Options
This is used to select what information can be viewed with your image during playback. You
can view the image without any superimposed data, you can view the image with data and/ or
histograms, and other options (see Figure 5). I recommend that you select most of these options,
and then you can click through these various views when reviewing your images on the rear
Monitor (see Figure 5). The option None will show just the image without any additional
information. Highlights will show if you have overexposed the highlights (a situation that you
typically want to avoid and thus want to be alerted to) by having those areas of the image blink
during playback. RGB Histogram will also help show if an image's exposure is correct, or if you
have overexposed or underexposed it, through the use of graphs. Unless you make use of RGB
histograms, this view option is not absolutely necessary. Shooting Data will display detailed
data of the camera's settings used for each image. This view too may be optional since essential
information is shown in the Overview view, but try it out to see if you need this information.
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