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Here are some of the changes I recommend you make to the defaults that Nikon sets
up for you. (I have no changes to recommend for the Playback, Setup, and My Menu
settings, which are fine the way they are for most people, nor for the Retouch menu,
which doesn’t have parameters that can be stored.) You’ll find other settings recom-
mendations at the end of Chapter 7:
Shooting Menu
Make these changes to the Shooting menu entries listed:
■ Image Quality. Change from JPEG Normal to JPEG Fine, to produce better image
quality.
■ High ISO NR. Change from default Normal to Off, until you’ve had a chance to
evaluate whether the D7000 performs to your liking at high sensitivity settings. Off
produces the least amount of noise reduction, but also doesn’t degrade the amount
of detail as much as any of the On settings.
Custom Settings Menu
Make these changes to the Custom Settings menu entries listed:
■ CSM #a7: Built-in AF-assist illumination. Change from the default On to Off.
This feature doesn’t work well, except at close distances and when the lamp isn’t
blocked by your fingers, and is annoying at other times.
■ CSM #c2: Auto meter-off delay. If you shoot sports or other events where you
don’t want the camera going to sleep and delaying your ability to snap off a shot
now, change from the default 6 seconds to 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 10
minutes. You’ll use more power, but won’t lose a shot from a split-second delay while
the camera wakes up.
■ CSM #d1: Beep. Choose the Volume setting and turn to OFF to quiet the cam-
era during self-timer countdowns and single-servo autofocus confirmation. If you
decide you need this reminder, you can always turn it back on, but most of the time
it’s annoying and calls attention to your shooting.
■ CSM #f8: Slot empty release lock. This controls what happens when you press
the shutter release while no memory card is loaded in the camera. Change from the
default OK: Enable Release to LOCK: Release Locked. Why would you want to be
able to take pictures with no memory card in the camera, other than to demon-
strate the camera or a few other reasons? Even though a DEMO label appears on
the LCD when you “take” pictures with no memory card inserted, it’s easy to over-
look. Turn this capability to LOCK.
David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography46