Custom Setting #D9 One Second Shutter Delay - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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1. Nikon has made a change since the D2: the alternate

setting on the D2 series was triggered by pressing any

button on the camera (shutter release partway, and of the

control buttons), and was of limited duration (6 seconds).

Now, the system simply looks at if the camera is active

(metering) and backlights the LCD during the entire time

the camera is active. For some heavy-handed users (or if

you have #C3 set high), that can be very long periods of

time. The drawback is that battery consumption is

increased by this backlighting, and it is already high when

the camera is active. Thus, I say you should only set this

control for situational conditions (i.e. when you need it).

All other times it should be Off.

2. Most people don't realize it, but this function is also

linked to external Speedlight LCDs, and it works both

ways. If you set backlighting to be On for the SB-800

using its setup options, that setting is applied to the

camera, too! Indeed, since I'm usually shooting with a

flash on the camera at night, I simply leave backlighting

set on my SB-800 and leave the camera's #D8 option set

to Off. Just remember that you've done this.

Custom Setting #D9 One Second Shutter Delay

(Exposure delay mode)

Like the Mirror-up function (M

option is used to reduce vibrations or camera shake caused by

the shutter press. When activated, the camera flips the mirror

up immediately upon shutter release, and then opens the

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frame rate setting), this