Backlight Switch; Multi Selector Center Button - Nikon D300 User Manual

3. Choose one of the two types on the list. In
image 3,
selected.
4. Press the
My Recommendation: While this function could be useful
if one uses the
many D300(S) users do not depend on the
display as often as those who own lower-cost Nikons. The
lower-end cameras are more and more
centered since many of their users came over from the
point-and-shoot world and expect that easy, shortcut style of
camera configuration.
Only recently has Nikon added more functionality to the
Information display
a pattern that will only grow in future cameras. How long will
it be before we have touch-screen technology?
In any case, I still mostly use the
turn on the backlight for the
rather simply press the
Information display

Multi Selector Center Button

Custom setting f2 (D300S) and f1 (D300)
(User's Manual – D300S page 291; D300 page 301)
This Custom Setting
center button determines how the
LCD backlight
OK button to lock in the setting.
Information display
on the D300(S)-level cameras, which sets
Info button
on the rear monitor.
called—not
(Control panel
frequently, I suspect that
Information display

Backlight switch

Control panel
when I want access to the
surprisingly—Multi selector
Multi selector center button
384
Figure 4-64,
only) has been
Information
setting to
only. I would