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First, in Figure 3.29:
■ Shutter speed/additional functions (magenta). Here you’ll find the shutter speed,
exposure compensation values, color temperature, and other useful data.
■ Aperture/additional functions (magenta). The selected f/stop appears here, along
with a lot of other alternate information, as shown in the label in the figure.
■ Flexible program indicator (dark blue). Appears when you’ve adjusted the cam-
era’s Program mode exposure by spinning the main command dial to change to a
different setting that produces the same exposure, but with a different combination
of shutter speed and aperture.
■ Electronic flash mode (green). The current mode for the D7000’s built-in elec-
tronic flash unit is shown here.
■ Flash compensation active (black). Reminds you that you’ve tweaked the D7000’s
electronic flash exposure system with more or less exposure requested.
■ Exposure compensation active (black). Appears when you’ve dialed in exposure
compensation. Monitor this indicator, as it’s easy to forget that you’ve told the
Nikon D7000 to use more or less exposure than what its (reasonably intelligent)
metering system would otherwise select.
■ Clock not set (black). This indicator is displayed when your clock needs to be
reset. You’ll see it when your camera is activated for the first time, any time that the
internal clock battery runs down (say, when you’ve removed the main battery for a
few days), and when your internal clock battery wears out and will no longer hold
a charge.
■ Metering Mode (yellow). Shows whether you’ve selected Matrix, Center-weighted,
or Spot metering.
■ Active D-Lighting/Exposure/Flash/White balance bracketing indicator (tan).
Shows that ADL, exposure, flash, or white balance bracketing is underway.
Underneath this display is an indicator that shows the progress of the bracketing
currently underway. There are three symbols, a square flanked by left and right point-
ing triangles as well as plus or minus signs (depending on what type of bracketing
you are doing); after each shot in the bracket set, one of the symbols disappears.
■ Number of exposures/additional functions (orange). This indicator shows the
number of exposures remaining on your memory card, as well as other functions,
such as the number of shots remaining until your memory buffer fills.
■ White balance setting (light blue). One of the white balance settings will appear
here, depending on the selection you’ve made.
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