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Nikon D70/D70s User’s Guide
21: Slowest Shutter Speed: This sets the slowest shutter speed the camera will use in low light in
the P and A modes, in normal flash sync. I set this to 1/8 indoors if people hold still. Default is 1/30. I
usually leave it at 1/15. Set this slower to let the ambient light have more effect indoors with flash,
and set it faster to stop your kids from leaving weird blurry ghosts behind them. Use a higher ISO to
get faster speeds and have the backgrounds fill in with ambient light.
22: Monitor Off Time Delay: This sets how long the rear LCD stays lit each time. I leave it at 10
seconds. Set it longer if you want the screen to stay lit longer without having to hit any keys. Luckily
the camera has such great battery life there's no reason not to set it for as long as you like.
23; Meter Off: This sets how long the meter stays on each time you tap the shutter. I leave it at 6
seconds. Set it longer if you like; I've never had any battery life issues with this camera.
24: Self Timer Delay: I leave it at 2 seconds, since I use the self timer to replace a cable release.
Set it to 10 seconds (default) for enough time to run to get into a picture. You can set it to 2, 5, 10 or
20 seconds.
25: Remote: This sets how long the camera stays awake ready to release as controlled by the
remote infra-red shutter release. If you set this too short the camera may go to sleep and ignore the
wonderful little release before you get to pressing it. Set it longer and the battery may run down
faster, but I've never had a problem. I set this to 5 minutes. After 5 minutes I'll have to use the
rectangles button to set the camera back to remote release mode again.
SET UP MENU (wrench icon)
Select the Set Up menu by pressing MENU and selecting the wrench icon.
Folders: You can create, select and rename folders on your memory card. Normal people never use
this menu. The pro cameras have a trick which creates a new folder if you hold the "?" button on
power on, but the D70 has no such automatic feature. It's more of a pain to make new folders than it
is to sort the images later from the same folder, so I don't bother.
Select Folder chooses the folder into which new photos are recorded.
New lets you make a new folder and name it.
Rename and Delete are self explanatory.
File Number Sequence: This lets the camera number your images starting at the last shot you
made, even if you've formatted your card. I leave this to ON. If you turn this feature off you'll start
from 0001.JPG each time, which is stupid. It's stupid because In time you'll have 150 files all called
DSC_0012.JPG on your hard drive. You'll thank me when you try to put together a slide show and
don't have to rename them all! Also it lets you keep track of how many shots you've made, since it
runs up to 9,999 shots before it resets.
Format: this is the hard way to format a card. If I'm in bright enough light to see the dim red
FORMAT buttons I use those instead. Professionals always reformat a card every time it's put back
into a camera to prevent any potential for card errors.
CSM Menu: As I've suggested, set this to Detailed to get the complete Custom Settings Menu.
Otherwise you only get a few custom settings.
DATE sets the time and date.
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