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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / June 2006Why does the D200 have a QUAL button?
I've had my D200 for under a week now, and I'm just learning how it works. I can see why you would want ISO and WB buttons in a convenient place because those are things that seem like you would be changing whenever the lighting changes, which could be almost every shot. But, I don't see why QUAL is up there too. I would guess you'd pick a QUAL setting and leave it there for a whole shooting session. Do people really change QUAL settings for each specific shot? I could see leaving it on "L/fine" and probably never touching it again unless I was running out of room on my memory card and didn't have a spare with me. > I've had my D200 for under a week now, and I'm just learning how it works. > I can see why you would want ISO and WB buttons in a convenient place [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > "L/fine" and probably never touching it again unless I was running out of > room on my memory card and didn't have a spare with me. I switch between RAW and jpeg depending on the situation. I think it is very nice to have outside the menu. Tom > I switch between RAW and jpeg depending on the situation. I think it is > very nice to have outside the menu. I'd much prefer it if it allowed you to switch between shooting banks or custom settings banks, perhaps by pressing it and rotating the front or back dial. You could also change quality settings as a special case then. > I've had my D200 for under a week now, and I'm just learning how it works. > I can see why you would want ISO and WB buttons in a convenient place [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > "L/fine" and probably never touching it again unless I was running out of > room on my memory card and didn't have a spare with me. You might want to be firing off rapid multiple exposures and not want to fill the buffer. If you have been shooting raw and quickly want to swich to jpg then you would not want to go into a menu! > You might want to be firing off rapid multiple exposures and not want to > fill the buffer. If you have been shooting raw and quickly want to swich to > jpg then you would not want to go into a menu! This seems a good reason, like for sports or wildlife. The main reason I shoot jpeg is if I want long bursts & I might need that suddenly as a situation presents itself. > But, I don't see why QUAL is up there too. There are dozens of things that button could better have been used for. It makes absolutely no sense to have a dedicated button for that; I have never changed that setting and never will, and yet there are things I must go into the menu for on a regular basis.  SignatureJeremy | jeremy@exit109.com According to Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>: > I've had my D200 for under a week now, and I'm just learning how it works. > I can see why you would want ISO and WB buttons in a convenient place [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > "L/fine" and probably never touching it again unless I was running out of > room on my memory card and didn't have a spare with me. On my D70, I currently keep it set to Large/Fine for most things, but for a subject which might benefit from the extended processing ability of RAW I will switch to RAW mode for that one shot or group of shots. (I used to keep it on Medium/Fine back when all I had was two 1GB CF cards, but now that I have added a 4GB one to the collection, I've switched to the Large/Fine. And -- if I want to take a lot of shots to document some event, but I won't need the extended processing capabilities of RAW images, or the higher detail of "Large", I may drop back to "Medium", though I will usually keep "Fine". I can't picture any sequence where I would drop back to "Basic" -- though if the D70 had the intervalometer that the D200 has, I might some year set up looking out the bathroom window at some trees, to capture the sequence of the buds opening to big fans of leaves. I *think* that 5 minutes between shots should be sufficient, but perhaps I might need to go down to 1 minute between shots. 5 minutes between shots works out to 288 shots in 24 hours, and It would take perhaps a couple of weeks of exposures to cover the whole sequence, so that is 4032 shots. Normal/Medium gets me there on a 4GB CF card -- just barely. So does Large/Basic And while you can select these from the menus, it is a *lot* quicker to make the choices from a single button and both thumbwheels. I would like to have the ability to switch between (pre-created) folders from the buttons and thumbwheels too -- but the top display can't show the names of all the possible folders, so I guess that I am stuck with the menus for that. Enjoy, DoN. SignatureEmail: <dnichols@d-and-d.com> | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- > I would like to have the ability to switch between (pre-created) > folders from the buttons and thumbwheels too -- but the top display > can't show the names of all the possible folders, so I guess that I am > stuck with the menus for that. This already exists, there are 4 "shooting banks" and 4 "custom setting banks" already. Which one is active is constantly displayed on the top LCD (the shooting banks are called A, B, C and D, and so are the custom setting ones...). One could set up shooting bank A for RAW, B for jpeg portraits, C for jpeg landscapes etc. The QUAL button could have allowed selection of a custom setting bank with the front dial and a shooting bank with the rear, say. As a special case, it could do the job it does now if properly set up. I don't understand why it's set up like this. > This already exists, there are 4 "shooting banks" and 4 "custom > setting banks" already. Which one is active is constantly displayed [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I don't understand why it's set up like this. I agree that this would be nice. I primarily shoot RAW so having the button on the outside is a waste. I guess Nikon couldn't think of any other function to put on that button. It doesn't bother me, though, and I never thought about it. Rita >> But, I don't see why QUAL is up there too. I would guess you'd pick a QUAL >> setting and leave it there for a whole shooting session. Do people really [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >processing ability of RAW I will switch to RAW mode for that one shot or >group of shots. Something I've noticed with the D70s that my friend has, is the Large/Fine jpg files do not capture as much detail as the raw files. We've tried adjusting contrast, sharpness, etc., to try to improve detail retention, but the jpg format Nikon implemented just loses too much detail. For snapshots the jpg quality is fine, but if you want to enlarge and retain fine detail, you have to shoot raw. That may not be a bad thing though. For typical family shots, parties, and other social gatherings, jpg files from the D70s are fine. But if you're on a trip to the Grand Canyon or something, then shooting raw will retain finer detail just in case you need it. My Canon on the other hand produces very good jpg files straight out of the camera - they're as good as raw converted to jpg. And for that reason I rarely shoot raw unless I intend to manipulate the images. Roy Smith wrote (in article <roy-2CFF3C.08334806062006@reader2.panix.com>): > I've had my D200 for under a week now, and I'm just learning how it works. > I can see why you would want ISO and WB buttons in a convenient place [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > "L/fine" and probably never touching it again unless I was running out of > room on my memory card and didn't have a spare with me. Just as you wonder that, I wonder why anyone would ever shoot anything other than RAW with a D200. :-) I guess Nikon caters to everyone on their digital bodies nowadays. SignatureRandy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw Whatever anyone does, their damned if they do, and damned if they dont! Just use the tool to do the job and quit nit-picking!! > Roy Smith wrote > (in article <roy-2CFF3C.08334806062006@reader2.panix.com>): [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > I guess Nikon caters to everyone on their digital bodies > nowadays. Nick Beard wrote (in article <e67fas$h1o$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>): > Whatever anyone does, their damned if they do, and damned if they dont! Just > use the tool to do the job and quit nit-picking!! Please don't top-post. Perhaps that is why you fail to fully comprehend the emoticon below. >> Roy Smith wrote >> (in article <roy-2CFF3C.08334806062006@reader2.panix.com>): [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> I guess Nikon caters to everyone on their digital bodies >> nowadays. SignatureRandy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw Whatever Dude!!!! |
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