D7000, shutter speed dial, how to lock

 

<p >I wrote this before running a careful search on Photo.Net. Where I believe I read that there is no way to lock the Main Command dial. I would like to confirm that the only solutions is Velcro or gaffer tape. At least I'm glad that I found this out before I shot anything important.</p>

<p >In using a Nikon D7000, I'm having a problem w/ accidentally bumping the shutter speed dial. This is particularly a problem when using flash @ 1/250. </p>

<p >I need a way to lock the shutter speed, but not other settings. </p>

<p >I've looked in the Nikon supplied manual, & “Mastering... D7000” by D Young, Googled & have not found the answer. I've been studing “Mastering... “ & working w/ the camera intently for the last 5 days. I think I saw the answer, but do not remember where I saw it.</p>

<p >If there is not internal way to lock it, I'm going to have to improvise a solution w/ a Velcro strip & tabs. I really don't want to have to resort to this.</p>

<p >This is a serious problem. </p>

<p >Please help, Jay Drew</p>

<p >BTW, this has not been a problem w/ the 2 previous cameras I've used w/ Main Command Dials, a F5, & a Kodak DCS Pro 1n.</p>

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<p>I don't know the answer to your question but I do wonder if your problem has something to do with how you are carrying or holding the camera?</p>

<p>I don't have a D7000 or D7100 because they are too small for me so I can't operate them comfortably. D600/610 is OK though.</p>

<p>I'm assuming Nikon does not let you customize the dials and allow you to assign shutter speed to something else that you're less likely to bump?</p>

<p>I have a D7000 and have never experienced anything like this?? You could reverse the aperture/shutter speed dials in custom settings, but that would probably just having you alter the aperture instead.</p>

<p>I sold my D7000 for precisely this reason. </p>

<p>If you have big hands a battery grip will solve the problem,it will make it easier ti hold without interfering with the wheel.</p>

<p>I've had my D7000 for going on 3 years now, I've NEVER had this problem at all. To me, not accidentally touching the command dial is just like not accidentally touching the front lens element. I know where it is, and I'm careful with it. What Nikon bodies do allow you to lock the command dials?</p>

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<p>Pretty much all the high-end Nikon DSLRs either have a dedicated lock button or a Custom Setting in group F to lock the main and sub-command dials. Unfortunately, the D7000 doesn't make the cut for those high-end cameras.</p>

<p>However, the main command dial on the D7000 is pretty much the same as the main command dial on all Nikon SLRs since the F5 from 1996, and even a few of those that are earlier such as the N8008/F801 and N90/F90 have similar main command dials. At least I have never had any problems with unintentionally changing the shutter speed on any one of those cameras.</p>

<p>This is easy ...take a strip of plastic water bottle 35mm long and 2.5mm wide..feed one end into the left side of the wheel and then the other end into the other side ( sort of U shape it) It will fit over the wheel and stop you knocking it ....you can flick it out with a finger nail if you need to .</p>

 

<p >Thanks to every one for your thoughts on my question.</p>

<p > After reading the replies, I realized that I hold a camera differently than most folks, due to an injured & useless rt. middle finger. With 2 previous cameras (An F5 & a DCS Pro 1n) that have main command dials, I did not have the same problem w/ that dial, due to the cameras considerably different configuration plus the fact that the D7000 is smaller. This is particularly exacerbated w/ an SB 800 flash mounted on the hot shoe</p>

<p >John King, </p>

<p >This is a great idea. I think it will work very well. I'm not able to implement it due to having loaned the D7000, this past weekend, to my grandson to make a film. Although I can try it on the F5 & DCS. Have you used this idea yourself or did U think it up on the spot? In any case, thank you so much, Jay Drew</p>

<p > Thank you all again, Jay Drew</p>

<p>my wifes cameras have all the dials taped up but mine have the two stips of plastic around the wheels and have had no problems. I use the camera on on fixed setting A F8..auto iso 100-6400 and min speed 1/30 and never touch it ...a cheap vertical grip at about $30 ( Neewer etc may help your grip)<br>

If I ever want to change the settings I use the dials on the grip which are inoperative when the grip switch is OFF<br>

<br />Had you noticed that with the above configuration the iso jumps to 400 the instant you turn on the flash ...that is very helpfull. ( 4x the lowest iso you set ..not in handbook)</p>

<p>just found a photo..notice also the white mark on the diopter adjuster ..how many times has that moved and you think the pictures all gone out of focus.....</p><div></div>

<p>The 7100 has a lock button. My D7000 has tape</p>

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<p>The 7100 has a lock button. My D7000 has tape.</p>

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<p>The D7100 has a lock button for the SPAM (+ other functions) dial to the left of the viewfinder. In fact, Nikon put that onto the D600, which has a similar layout to the D7000 and D7100 and was introduced about 6 months prior to the D7100.</p>

<p>At least I am not aware of any lock on the main command dial on the D7100. If there is a lock, please let me know where it is.</p>

<p>John King wrote:<br>

“...I use the camera on on fixed setting A F8..auto iso 100-6400 and min speed 1/30 and never touch it ...a cheap vertical grip at about $30 ( Neewer etc may help your grip)<br />If I ever want to change the settings I use the dials on the grip which are inoperative when the grip switch is OFF”<br />Had you noticed that with the above configuration the iso jumps to 400 the instant you turn on the flash ...that is very helpfull. ( 4x the lowest iso you set ..not in handbook)..."</p>

<p >John</p>

<p >I have yet to be able to set, & get to work, the function you mention where one sets the max ISO & the min. shutter speed. Nor have I been able to get the camera & the SB-800 to work in TTL mode. They come out horribly over exposed. But I'm not worried about it. I can shoot totally manually until I figure it out. Or use the flash in Auto (non TTL). In any case it doesn't matter for the moment, as I have loaned the D7000 to my 'film maker' grandson, who has lost or ruined every camera or I-Phone he has ever gotten. Such as the Gitzo 320 I loaned him, w/ which he clamped lights onto 2 legs, denting them so badly that the other legs won't retract. I need ma heed examined for loaning it to him. I wish I could afford to send him to one of the several art colleges in San Francisco.</p>

<p >The things we do for love, Jay Drew</p>

<p >BTW where can I find out how to put posters quoted posts in the gray box in P.N. I've looked & looked.</p>