Selector. The D300 has no microphone volume control,
so pressing the Playback button when in Live View
mode simply gives you the Monitor brightness bar (F).
Once the frame surrounding the vertical bar turns
yellow, it is selected. You can now move the little
yellow square up or down by holding down the Playback
button and pressing up or down on the Multi Selector.
Each increment (+/- 3) on the bar increases or decreases
the Monitor’s brightness—up for bright, down for dark.
This does not change the brightness level of the image or
video, just the Monitor’s. In other words, this setting
does not change the exposure.
G – This symbol lets you autofocus the camera and is
different in the Hand-held and Tripod modes. In
Hand-held mode, the AF point will be smaller than
shown in Figure 8-6, which shows Tripod mode’s
contrast-detect autofocus symbol. You can move the
contrast-detect autofocus square to any point on the
screen, and even zoom in for extremely accurate
autofocus with the Playback zoom in button. In
Hand-held mode you can move the smaller AF point
among the 51-points in the normal phase-detection
autofocus grid.
▪ H – This line of symbols varies according to whether
you are using a D300S or D300. In the D300S (shown in
Figure 8-6) the symbols are a somewhat confusing
description of how to execute D (mic volume) and F
(monitor brightness) in our list. At the end of the line of
symbols in the D300S is a reminder that you can press
the Multi selector center button to record a video. In the
D300, the first symbols represent the monitor brightness
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