If you’re a stills photographer, you may need by no means pressed the video file button in your digicam. Not ever! But I press this little purple button on my Nikon Z8 lots of of instances each single shoot, as a result of it toggles a really useful perform on / off. Everything!
So, what do I imply by that? Well, whether or not you’re trying by way of your EVF or the rear LCD, you’ll discover a heads-up show with a plethora of data – together with your publicity settings, an publicity meter, battery life and you will have arrange some non-compulsory extras similar to a digital horizon or histogram.
This is all helpful info however, if I discover myself actually refining a composition, it could possibly typically be somewhat bit distracting. That’s the place the nice ol’ file button is available in, as a result of when in images mode, I’ve it set to toggle the HUD on or off.
Turned off, the one factor that’s left on the display screen is your chosen grid and focus-point indicator. Everything else disappears, enabling you to cancel out the visible noise and focus fully in your composition.
As far as I’m conscious, this works on all Z-Series cameras. However, it’s not the one perform you may assign to the file button. That’s proper, in photograph mode, it primarily turns into a sneaky custom-settings button! To set your file button to disable the HUD, do the next…
- Hit your Nikon’s ‘Menu’ button
- Head to the ‘Custom Settings Menu’ (pencil icon)
- Use the D-pad or joystick to scroll right down to ‘Controls’ (‘f’)
- Select ‘Custom controls (capturing)’
- Select the little camcorder icon and hit the ‘OK’ button
- Select ‘Live view information show off’
You’ll discover that there is a swathe of different {custom} settings you may apply to the file button, together with setting the white stability or metering, or toggling AE lock or biking by way of the framing grid shows, and way more.
So, there you will have it. Cut down on visible noise by assigning ‘Live view info display off’ to your Nikon’s record button.