Shooting Menu - Nikon D600 Experience Manual To Operations

Nikon D600 Experience
Role Played by Card in Slot 2
If you insert memory cards in both available slots, you can configure the second card to
function in a variety of ways (see Figure 25). Overflow will save your images onto the
second card after the first card is full. Backup will simultaneously record copies of all
images onto both card 1 and card 2. Raw Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2 will store NEF (RAW)
images on card 1 and JPEG images on card 2, for example when you are shooting NEF
(RAW)+JPEG in order to capture both file formats at the same time. When the second
or third option is selected, the camera will use the card with the least amount of
remaining memory to determine the displayed amount of exposures remaining. In the
Movie Settings of the Shooting Menu (below) you can also select to save movies on a
specific card.
Figure 25 - Role played by card in Slot 2 menu options.
Image Quality
You are putting a lot of effort into taking your images. You should make sure the files
are of the best possible quality (see Figure 26). I will discuss this in more detail,
including JPEG vs. NEF (RAW) file formats, in Section 4.3 below. Set to either the NEF
(RAW) setting if you shoot RAW, or the highest quality JPEG setting (JPEG Fine) if you
shoot JPEG, or both combined if you need both types of files. (NEF is the file extension
used by Nikon for images in the RAW file format. I will sometimes use just the term
"RAW" when discussing the "NEF (RAW)" format.) Remember that this setting can also
be changed using the QUAL Button and the rear Main Command Dial.
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