Blinkies on D40

[chawn_crawley]

I can't find it in the manual, and I can't get the highlight warning indicator to be deactivated. Can anyone help? D40. I have no trouble

finding this menu on my D300.

 

Thanks!

[travishoover]

When reviewing the photo on the LCD screen, press up or down on the little 4-way selector pad. this will cycle through the different display options, such as highlights, histogram, shot info. eventually you will get to the one that is just the picture.

[chawn_crawley]

Thanks Travis. You saved a marriage! She's been driving me nuts to get rid of those things :)

[elliot1]

Perhaps you should reconsider leaving the highlight warning on. If you get 'blinkies', it means your shot/highlights are likely overexposed a bit and you should adjust your exposure to compensate

[Peter_in_PA]

BUT... sometimes, I've found just a few blinkies is perfectly okay. I use the histogram to view my photos, I go back and

forth between that and blinkies. I've shot some stuff where gobs of blinkies was okay because I had a dark foreground and

bright background. btw, blinkies is indeed a technical term, don't be afraid to use it in casual conversation. ;-)

 

But... on a side note... I accidently shot a bunch of stuff recently on the green auto program id1ot mode. It all came out

great, some probably with blinkies and some probably without... Maybe the camera IS smarter than me.

[tsuacctnt]

Peter: I hate admitting it but I think my cameras usually ARE smarter than me, I swear every time I try to outsmart matrix metering it never turns out how I expected. Maybe I should revert to center weighted so I can feels marter than the camera again.

[chawn_crawley]

Elliot,

 

I use them on my D300 most of the time. This camera is hers and she just uses it as a point-and-shoot for kid pictures.

She sticks to auto pilot and, for some reason, they "bug" her.