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Postby ATJ on Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:12 pm

I've had my D300 now for over 3 years. I really love the 51 focus points and regularly switch to other than the centre one, especially underwater. One problem is I sometimes forget to move it back to the centre (which isn't always obvious underwater as I get a limited view of the viewfinder). While trying to get to sleep the other night I thought that Nikon really need a button to set the focus point back to the centre.

Today I was getting the camera ready for a dive tomorrow. I put it in the housing and while checking that everything works I noticed the focus point was not on the centre. My housing has external buttons that let me interact with the multi selector. There are 4 in a diamond and one in the centre. I pressed the one in the centre and voila the focus point was centred.

So... even after 3 years of regular use, I can still find features that are new to me.
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Postby biggerry on Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:38 pm

thats a nice tip, I wonder if it does the same on teh D7000, thats always a pain when you have moved the focus point, at the airshow I remember it would have been handy to have that one button click to bring back to centre...
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Re: d'oh!

Postby aim54x on Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:14 am

biggerry wrote:thats a nice tip, I wonder if it does the same on teh D7000, thats always a pain when you have moved the focus point, at the airshow I remember it would have been handy to have that one button click to bring back to centre...


From memory it is the same....

ATJ wrote:I've had my D300 now for over 3 years. I really love the 51 focus points and regularly switch to other than the centre one, especially underwater. One problem is I sometimes forget to move it back to the centre (which isn't always obvious underwater as I get a limited view of the viewfinder). While trying to get to sleep the other night I thought that Nikon really need a button to set the focus point back to the centre.

Today I was getting the camera ready for a dive tomorrow. I put it in the housing and while checking that everything works I noticed the focus point was not on the centre. My housing has external buttons that let me interact with the multi selector. There are 4 in a diamond and one in the centre. I pressed the one in the centre and voila the focus point was centred.

So... even after 3 years of regular use, I can still find features that are new to me.

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Postby Remorhaz on Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:54 pm

biggerry wrote:thats a nice tip, I wonder if it does the same on teh D7000, thats always a pain when you have moved the focus point, at the airshow I remember it would have been handy to have that one button click to bring back to centre...


Yep - pretty sure it's the same on D7000.
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Postby ATJ on Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:56 pm

It was very handy on my dive today. Quite a few times I moved the focus point to the left or up. One press when I was done and it was centred. :up:
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Postby glamy on Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:04 pm

Same on D3s... Thanks for the tip :oops: very handy.
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Postby biggerry on Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:09 pm

aim54x wrote:From memory it is the same....

Remorhaz wrote:Yep - pretty sure it's the same on D7000.


correcto, used it today, damn handy feature...
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Re: d'oh!

Postby Matt. K on Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:56 pm

Andrew
The D300 has autofocus!!!!!!!
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