1.3. Shooting/Display

(User's Manual pages 281–287)

Custom settings d1 to d3

Custom setting d1 Beep

Figure 23 shows the screens used to configure Custom setting d1.

I don't like my camera beeping at me, but you might love it. Either way, we can have our wish. You can set the camera to beep at you with a high-pitched or low-pitched beeping sound. The low-pitched sound is not very loud, while the high-pitched sound is quite audible. In fact, it sets up a harmonic resonance with the bones in my skull and causes my eyeballs to vibrate.

The D300's self-timer Beep function is to let you know when the self-timer is about to fire. It counts down the seconds with a beep or two per second, then at the last moment it doubles the beeping frantically to ...

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