Nikon D300 - Customize Command Dials

My Recommendation: There are so many available
functions here that I’m loathe to recommend anything. People
shoot in so many different ways, and there are so many
choices in this list that it’s hard to pin it down to just a few.
However, I will tell you what I set mine on, and you can then
experiment and see if that suits your style too. If not, you’ve
got a lot of choices!
My favorites:
▪ Assign Fn (FUNC.) button press – Spot metering (My
normal meter is Matrix).
▪ Assign Fn (FUNC.) button + dials – Auto bracketing.
▪ Assign preview button press – Preview (depth of field
preview).
▪ Assign preview button + command dials – None (I don’t
use this).
▪ Assign AE-L/AF-L button press – AE lock only.
▪ Assign AE-L/AF-L button + command dials – Choose
non-CPU lens number.
I hope you’ll experiment with each of these settings and see if
you like others better. Nikon has given us amazing
configurability for our assignable buttons, so why not test
each one?
Customize Command Dials
Custom setting f8 (D300S) and f7 (D300)
(User’s Manual – D300S page 297; D300 page 308)
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