Nikon D700 High Quality Image Settings |
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This guide (web-pages) describe how to setup the (your) Nikon D700 in such a away that the highest quality images are stored on your Nikon D700 Camera.
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Recommended pre-requisites: I assume that the first pre-requisites have been met and that is a excellent Nikon photo camera, be ité D90, D300, D700, D3s or any other equivalent. Two items are very important
Memory Card - In order to have sufficient storage space for the high quality, high resolution images, the total storage capacity of the memory card is very important. It will allow you to store images using the highest image quality settings (in btoh Raw and jpeg format). On the Nikon D700 a 8GB will allow you to store around 250 images in both Raw and jpeg high quality format, or around 500 images in jpeg. While the 16GB memory card will allow you around 500 images in both raw and jpeg high quality, or ~1200 images using jpeg only.
For a one day of shooting a 16GB card is usually sufficient, is this is not the case you can get additional 8GB or 16GB cards as needed and offload the images to your PC in the evening or any other convenient moment.
The Nikon D700 uses the Compact Flash (Type I only) and supports UDMA. My recommendation is to use cards from brands like SANDISK, Kingston, Sony, Transcend with UDMA and at least 60MBs
Battery/Accu - While the standard supplied Nikon battery
last for sev
eral hundreds shots at normal shooting formats, the usage on the battery will increase for high-quality settings. Therefore a second a genuine Nikon spare battery asap. Always fully recharge the batteries at
the day of your shooting sessions and dont forget to pack the batteries with you. Based on some unpleasant experiences with un-branded batteries in the past, today I will only Nikon batteries in my camera. The battery required for the Nikon D700 is the Lithium-Ion EN-EL3e
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This guide for setting up the Nikon D700 assumes som familiarity with the Nikon's menu and settings and this guide is mainly intended as a quick reference.
Menu Settings |
Value Settings |
| NEF (RAW) Recording Menu-> Type |
Lossless compressed - This will compress the NEF (RAW) images without comprosing image quality |
| NEF (RAW) Recording Menu-> NEF (RAW) Bit Depth |
14-Bit |
| JPEG Compression Menu |
Optimal Quality |
| Image Quality |
NEF (RAW) and JPEG Fine. Saving the photos both in 14-Bit RAW and jpeg allows the images to be available in the highest quality for image editing (NEF RAW) and you can use the JPEG fine for review or already excellent quality. TIF is not recommended because the Nikon only uses TIF 8-bit and does not allow losless TIF compression and therefore generate huge image-files which take some time to download and may stress the performace of your laptop computre |
| Image Size |
L for Large |
| ISO Sensivity |
200 |
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| Custom Settings |
Value Settings |
| a1: AF-C Priority Selection |
Release + Focus |
| a2: AF-S Priority Selection |
FOCUS - Photos can only be taken when the in-Focus indicator is being displayed |
| A6: AF Point Illumination |
On - The selected focus point is always highlighted, regardless of
the brightness of the background. |
| d2: Viewfinder Grid Display |
On |
| d8: LCD Illumination |
On |
| f1: Lamp Switch |
On |
| f5: Assign FUNC Button |
Live View |
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