rascal64 Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 <p>I am very perplexed by an ongoing problem I have with my D300. When I am shooting in manual mode at 250th of a second for studio strobe, I sometimes find that the 250 has climbed to 1000 (or more!). I have checked the FN button and it is at"0"frames. I am sure that this is user error, but I don't know why it is happening. Any thoughts?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acbeddoe Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 <p>The rear command dial controls shutter speed; I find it is easy to inadvertently nudge it and change the setting.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal64 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 <p>Charles...honestly, I am not hitting the dial. It happens when I am doing rapid fire and I am not near the dial.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 <p>Do you have bracketing turned on, by any chance? Meaning, are you actually seeing the setting change and <em>stay</em> that way ... or are you seeing the changed exposure in the EXIF results after the fact?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal64 Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 <p>Matt, it is when I look at the camera after a flurry of shots and the speed has changed. I don't look at the EXIF data. But, I can also see the black edges on the playback images from the unsynched (is that a word?) shutter speed. It is bracketing...but I don't know why or how to stop it.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_star1 Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 <p>I will be interested to the responses you receive. I also have a 8 month old D300 with same problem. Good luck. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CvhKaar Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 <p>Mayby have a look at page 116 / 117 in your manual ..<br> Here you find the custom setting e5 for type of bracketing choise<br> There is more on this at page 297 , and 304 -307 explaining how to set your Fn button for auto-bracketing..</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamish_gray Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 <p>Tiffany, Provided you haven't changed the function of your Fn button you should be able to deactivate bracketing by holding the Fn button in and rotating the rear comand dial until it shows "0F" on the top display.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal64 Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 <p>CPM...I don't think I missed anything in the manual...adding to my puzzlement. I do use bracketing in some instances, but Hamish...I make sure that the FN button is at zero when I do not want bracketing. Plus, my bracketing option is part of one of my preset shooting menu options (which I only use for HDR attempts and such). Gary, based on your response, I am wondering if it is the camera. I have tried firing a bunch of blanks, to see if it does it. No, it does it when I am not looking and after I have been shooting awhile. I think I bought my camera about 8 months ago too..hmmmm, a bad month for Nikon?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CvhKaar Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 <p> Tiffany, did you also check your f6 (ae-l/af-l ) settings ( including the combination with command-dails).<br> I ask this because I prefer to use this one to set ,and control, bracketting when depressed in command-dial combo (because it prevents accidentel bracketing activation because it is awkward to use when not on a tripod...).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal64 Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 <p>CPM...wow...I didn't know about the f6 option. Mine is currently off and I am a bit confused by it. I will read more about it in the manual and hopefully see if that will help the problem. Thank you!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CvhKaar Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 <p>Hi Tiffany, please let us know if this helps in any way ?</p> <p> Oh, and when you're at it experimenting with this bracketting stuff, maybe also have a look at e6 for manual exposure bracketting<br> ( i think that is what you were doing by presetting your exp. time to 1/250th ? ), if you set it to "Flash Only", you should never have a varying exposure time while "Flash Bracketting , even if your on bracketting by accident.. . ( same goes for the e5 setting ==> flash only stops varying exposure times when bracketting.).</p> <p>I know, its complicated, and I got dizzy first time when experimenting with this stuff because of the seemingly endless possibilities ( I have thrown in an MC-36 remote to get time-interval with bracketting bursts too, to complicate things a bit more ... :-) ) .</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rascal64 Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 <p>CPM...I was at the trusted camera store today and their feeling was that I would probably have to take it up with Nikon...ugh! Not looking forward to that one. I have been set to "flash only" btw. The FN button works pretty well for me when I am bracketing...like I said earlier, I find the preset shooting menus really good for that. It seems to be the easiest for me to get through that menu quickly. I will get aquainted with "E6" though and put off contacting Nikon just a wee bit longer...thanks for your help...it is very appreciated!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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