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Reset Shooting Menu
Don’t feel bad over being confused about what this menu item does. The Nikon D7000
has, in effect, three different kinds of resets. This is one of them.
■ Shooting menu reset. Use this option to reset the values of the currently selected
Shooting menu bank except for image quality, image size, white balance, and ISO sen-
sitivity to their default values. When you select this menu item, your choices are Yes
and No.
■ Custom Settings menu reset. This option is used to reset the four Custom Settings
values. It has no effect on camera settings or Shooting menu banks.
■ Two-button reset. The Nikon D7000’s two-button reset (holding down the
Exposure Value and QUAL buttons simultaneously for more than two seconds) will
not reset your Shooting menu banks or Custom Settings menu banks. This partic-
ular reset is for basic settings, such as focus point, exposure mode, flexible program,
exposure/flash compensation, bracketing, flash mode, flash value lock, and multi-
ple exposure settings.
Table 8.1 shows the default values that are set using the Reset Shooting menu option.
If you don’t know what some of these settings are, I’ll explain them later in this section.
Storage Folder
If you want to store images in a folder other than the one created and selected by the
Nikon D7000, you can switch among available folders on your Secure Digital card, or
create your own folder. Remember that any folders you create will be deleted when you
reformat your memory card.
To change the currently active folder:
1. Choose Storage Folder in the Shooting menu.
2. Scroll down to Select Folder and press the multi selector right button.
3. From among the available folders shown, scroll to the one that you want to become
active for image storage and playback. (Handy when displaying slide shows.)
4. Press the OK button to confirm your choice, or press the multi selector right but-
ton to return to the Shooting menu.
Why create your own folders? Perhaps you’re traveling and have a high-capacity mem-
ory card and want to store the images for each day (or for each city that you visit) in a
separate folder. When I’m shooting images on the same card on consecutive days, I
change the folder number so I can copy only that day’s new pictures to my backup media
back in my hotel room. The photos I shoot on January 25 go in a folder numbered 125;
those shot on January 26 go in 126; and so forth. (Use some other system in October,
November, and December, as folders can have only three-digit prefixes.)
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