Nikon® D5000 Digital Field Guide

Chapter 3. Exploring the D5000 Menus

In This Chapter

• Playback menu

• Shooting menu

• Custom Setting menu

• Setup menu

• Retouch menu

• My Menu

• Quick Settings Display

The first few sections of this book covered how to change the main settings of your D5000. In this chapter, I delve a little more in depth into the menu options. Here you can customize the D5000 options to fit your shooting style, to help refine your workflow, or to make adjustments to refine the camera settings to fit different shooting scenarios.

The D5000 has quite a few customizable features that make taking pictures much easier for you. You can assign a number of buttons to different functions that you use often. Using the My Menu feature, you can create your own personal list of menu options so that you don't have to scroll through all of the menu options for settings that you need to access often.

You can access the menus by pressing the Menu button on the back of the camera. Use the multi selector to scroll through the toolbar on the right side of the LCD. When the desired menu is highlighted in yellow, press the OK button or press the multi selector right to enter the menu. Pressing the Menu button again or tapping the Shutter Release button exits the Menu mode screen and readies the camera for shooting.

Note

When using advanced scene modes, not all menu options are available.

Playback Menu

The Playback menu is where you manage the images stored on your flash card. The Playback menu is also where you control how the images are displayed ...