Nikon csm/setup menu

Connect the card reader to the computer and insert a formatted memory card. Right click the removable disk and select Eject from the menu that appears. Remove the memory card from the card reader. Update the camera firmware. The current firmware version will be displayed. Highlight Version up and press the multi selector to the right. A firmware update dialog will be displayed.

Highlight Yes and press OK to begin the update. Illustration shows dialog displayed when A firmware is updated. Follow the same steps to update B firmware. The update may take anywhere from two to five minutes. Do not perform any operations while the messages shown at right are displayed. Copy the downloaded 'A40X Disconnect the camera from the computer if using an SD card reader then insert the memory card to the camera 8.

Select "Version Up" and follow the camera's on-screen menus. Do not turn the camera off during upgrade. When a message displays that the upgrade is complete, turn the camera off. Re-format the memory card. For detailed instructions on how to install this firmware update click here.

System requirements. Built-in USB port. With firmware Ver 1. You can force each of the three metering systems to add or subtract from the exposure the camera would normally use to expose your subject. This stays in effect until you set the meter back to zero. Fine-tune optimal exposure works like the normal compensation system, but it allows only 1 EV of compensation. As shown in figure 4. Fine-tune optimal exposure applies only to the user setting U1, U2, or non-user setting you are currently working with.

If you are working with U1, then U2 and non-user settings are not changed. Be sure to save the user setting in the Setup Menu if you change it. Select b5 Fine-tune optimal exposure and scroll to the right figure 4. Select the metering system you want to adjust.

Scroll to the right. Press the OK button to lock in the fine-tuning value for the metering system you selected in step 4. Remember, when you have Fine-tune optimal exposure turned on, the camera will not remind you. If needed, adjust the fine-tuning up or down, or turn it off.

You must fine-tune each metering system separately. Settings Recommendation: I have not needed to change the default metering level on my D The three metering systems seem very accurate to me!

Remember that adjusting an exposure is always an experiment. If you choose to fine-tune one of the three metering systems, you should thoroughly test it before you do an important shoot. The c1 Shutter-release button AE-L setting allows you to lock the exposure when you press the Shutter-release button halfway down. This setting allows you to meter one area of the scene and then recompose to another area without losing the meter reading from the first area—as long as you hold the Shutter-release button halfway down.

Highlight c1 Shutter-release button AE-L and scroll to the right figure 4. Settings Recommendation: I use this feature only when I really need it. For people who shoot sunsets or similar scenes where the sun is included in the image, this is a nice function. You can meter from an area of the sky that has the best color and then swing the camera around to include the sun in the shot.

The camera will expose for the originally metered area as long as you hold the Shutter-release button halfway down. The default value is 6 seconds. When the light meter goes off, the various displays—like shutter speed and aperture—in the Control panel and Viewfinder go off, too.

If you want your light meter to stay on longer for whatever reason, such as multiple exposures, you can adjust it to the following settings:.

Choose one of the nine options from the menu. Scroll down on the menu to find the No limit setting. Settings Recommendation: There are times when you want the light meter to stay on for a longer or shorter time than normal.

The longer the meter stays on, the shorter the battery life, so extend the time only if you really need it. The c3 Self-timer setting is used to take pictures remotely or without touching the camera. Hands-off shooting can reduce vibrations so you have sharper pictures. The Self-timer also allows you to set your camera up on a tripod and have time to get into a group picture before the shutter fires. You can even use the Self-timer to shoot multiple shots without touching the camera.

The time delays range from 2 to 20 seconds. You can choose one to nine shots in a row. The delay between shots allows vibrations from the previous shot to settle down. Here is a list of the four available settings:.

Select Self-timer delay from the menu and scroll to the right figure 4. Choose one of the four options from the menu 2 s to 20 s.

You can instruct the camera to take from one to nine pictures each time the Self-timer cycle completes. Select Number of shots from the menu and scroll to the right figure 4. Choose the Number of shots, from 1 to 9, by scrolling up or down with the Multi selector. This is simply the time delay between each shot 0. Here is a list of the four available Interval between shots settings:. Select Interval between shots from the menu and scroll to the right figure 4.

Choose the Interval between shots, from 0. I also use the settings to control how many shots the camera takes each time I use the Self-timer and how long it delays between those shots to allow vibrations to go away. The c4 Monitor off delay setting lets you specify a time-out for the five ways you can use the LCD Monitor on the back of your camera.

The Monitor will stay on until the time-out expires. The D allows you to select individual display time-outs for each of the following five subfunctions:. Select a four-second to minute Monitor off delay. Select a two-second to minute Monitor off delay. Select a five-minute or longer up to No limit Monitor off delay.

There is no need to provide figures and step-by-step instructions for each of the time-out types. If you examine one of them, you will know how to use all of them. As an example, figure 4. Use the following steps for each of the five delay types, with the understanding that the delay values vary, as shown in the previous list:. Choose one of the five display types figure 4. You can set the Monitor off delay for each type, then scroll to the right. I set the Menus time-out to 5 min because I like to scroll around for longer time periods as I configure various settings in the menus.

I leave Live view at the default of 5 min. If you want to conserve battery power, leave the Monitor off delay set to a low value, like 4 s to 20 s. The longer the monitor stays on, the shorter the battery life, so extend the monitor time only if you really need it. The Monitor and Control panel backlights are probably the biggest power drains in the entire camera. For as much image review chimping as I do, I can still usually shoot all day on one full battery charge.

Interestingly, the c5 Remote on duration setting controls how long the camera will wait for you to press the shutter-release button on your Nikon ML-L3 infrared remote.

Recall that Remote control mode gives you three settings to choose from:. If you set Remote control mode to any of these three settings, the camera will stay in a ready state—looking for the remote signal from the ML-L3—for the time delay you set in Remote on duration.

This means the camera stays ready to take a picture and leaves the exposure meter active until Remote on duration times out.

Select c5 Remote on duration from the menu and scroll to the right figure 4. Settings Recommendation: I used to leave my Remote on duration time set to 1 min factory default. However, I have recently been leaving it set to 5 min. I wish there were a two-minute setting because 1 min is not quite enough sometimes, especially for large group portraits, and 5 min is often too long and wastes the battery. The d1 Beep setting allows your camera to make a beeping sound to alert you during the following functions:.

You can set the camera to beep with a high- or low-pitched tone—and you can adjust the volume—or you can turn the Beep sound Off. Choose one of the four options from the list 3—1 or Off. You will hear a sample beep for each volume level as you choose it. The level 1 beep is rather quiet, so you may not hear it unless you hold the camera close to your ear.

You have two pitch levels available: High H and Low L. I compared them to my piano, and the Low L sound is F just above middle C. The High H sound is almost three octaves higher B just before three octaves above middle C.

Of course, with my trusty Radio Shack digital sound level meter, I do have that information. If you really want it, send me an e-mail. Choose one of the two options from the list High or Low. You will hear a sample beep for each pitch as you choose it.

If I am using my camera in a quiet area, why would I want it beeping and disturbing those around me? I want to live, so I turn off Beep. You might want the reassurance of hearing a beep when autofocus has been confirmed or when the Self-timer is counting down.

If so, turn it on. The AF-assist illuminator flashes during Self-timer operations, so I generally use that instead of Beep. This is another function that people either love or hate. You can have it either way, but be careful around big wild animals when Beep is enabled. It also does not sound when you use Movie live view mode.

You can use these lines to make sure the camera is lined up correctly with your subject. With the D, you have not only a Viewfinder grid display, but also Live view Lv gridlines—the best of both worlds! There are only two selections in d2 View-finder grid display: On and Off.

Highlight d2 Viewfinder grid display and scroll to the right figure 4. Many of us tend to tilt the camera one way or another, and gridlines help us keep it straight. Who needs tilted ocean views? When I shoot architecture, the gridlines are invaluable for making sure buildings, walls, and doors are straight.

There are lots of ways to use the Viewfinder grid display. The nice thing is that you can turn the gridlines On and Off at will. This section pertains only to the Viewfinder grid display in the Viewfinder. However, you can also turn on gridlines when the Live view screen is active by pressing the Info button multiple times to scroll through the various display overlays.

One of them is a grid display. Instead of displaying the frame count in the Control panel, where you normally see how many images you have left before the memory card is full, the camera can display the ISO sensitivity. The Viewfinder and Information display Monitor both continue to display the frame count.

There are three settings:. It also adds a way to change the ISO sensitivity while you take pictures. This applies only when you use the P, S, or A modes on the Mode dial. Normally, when you have the camera in P or S modes, you control the aperture P mode or shutter speed S mode with the Main command dial.

The Sub-command dial does nothing. Likewise, when the camera is set to A mode, you normally control the aperture with the Sub-command dial, and the Main command dial does nothing.

For people who need to adjust ISO sensitivity quickly while shooting, this can be very convenient. M mode on the Mode dial is not affected by this setting.

You cannot change the ISO sensitivity with either command dial in M mode, because the command dials control the aperture and shutter speed. The camera functions as normal, with the frame count showing in the Control panel and Viewfinder. Highlight d3 ISO display and adjustment and scroll to the right figure 4. Choose one of the three settings from the menu. My slow and deliberate tripod-based style of nature shooting rarely requires changing ISO sensitivity from its lowest setting.

However, many people need to change ISO sensitivity on the fly and may not trust the Auto ISO sensitivity control, which adjusts ISO sensitivity automatically, within bounds, to get the shot. This feature shows how interested Nikon is in giving us very fine control of our cameras.

You can use automatic methods or control everything manually. ISO display and adjustment basically gives you manual control over a feature that most people would manage with Auto ISO sensitivity control. If you are an action shooter and find yourself in varying light levels where you want to maintain fast manual control over ISO sensitivity, you might want to use this feature. You can access this display by pressing the Info button twice.

Pressing it twice shows a similar screen that allows you to change several settings. Screen 2 appears when you press the Info button twice. Since I have Screen tips enabled on my camera, you can see the tip for changing Active D-Lighting figure 4. If you press the OK button when you have one of the settings highlighted on the Information display edit screen figure 4. Settings Recommendation: This helpful setting gives you tool tips for using the Information display edit screen.

I leave this set to the factory default of On. The CL mode is for those who would like to use a conservative fps rate. With the proper settings, the camera can record 6 fps in Continuous high speed release mode CH on the Release mode dial. However, unless you are shooting race cars going miles per hour and have large memory cards, you may not want a lot of pictures of the same subject a few milliseconds apart. In that case, use the CL mode and select fewer fps than CH mode provides.

You can choose from 1 to 5 fps, as shown in figure 4. The default is 3 fps. Choose one of the five options from the list from 1 fps to 5 fps. Settings Recommendation: I have always left my setting at the default of 3 fps since that is reasonably fast but does not waste card space. Play around with this setting and decide for yourself what speed you like.

This function is for the low speed setting CL found on the Release mode dial. The d6 Max. You can blast away until you have reached the number of exposures specified in figure 4. Although you could reach images in a single burst, it is improbable. Your camera is limited by the size of its buffer and the types of images you are shooting. Plus, during a burst the camera actively writes images from the buffer to one or both memory cards. Unless you are shooting small JPEG basic files, the buffer will fill up before you reach the maximum of shots specified in the Max.

High-speed event shooting may require that you shoot in JPEG mode to keep from running out of buffer space. Using fast memory cards for fast image writing can help, too.

Highlight d6 Max. Use the Multi selector to scroll up or down and set the number of images you want in each burst. Settings Recommendation: I want the buffer to hold as many images as it possibly can when I am blasting away in high-speed shooting modes, so I leave Max.

However, you may want to limit the camera to a maximum burst of 10 or 20 images so the buffer will not fill up and slow the camera down. This also lets you maintain some control over your enthusiastic high-speed shooting. Do you really want dozens and dozens and dozens of pictures of those flying seagulls? The memory buffer allows you to shoot several images in quick succession while the camera writes them, one at a time, to the memory card s. The buffer holds the last few pictures you took in temporary memory until the camera can store them on the more permanent memory of a memory card.

Without an internal memory buffer, it would be nearly impossible for the camera to shoot several images quickly. The d7 File number sequence setting allows your camera to count the file numbers for each picture you take in a running sequence from to After pictures, it rolls back over to , or you can cause it to reset the image number to when you format a memory card or insert a new one.

If the file number exceeds during a shoot, the camera will create a new folder on the same memory card and start writing the new images, starting at , into the new folder. Similarly, if you accumulate images in the current folder, the next image captured will result in the camera creating a new folder, but the file numbering will not be reset to unless that th image has a file number of In other words, no matter what you do with your memory cards, or how many folders you or the camera create, the File number sequence will continue incrementing until images have been taken.

Only then will the File number sequence reset to If you exceed images in a single folder, the camera creates a new folder and starts counting at again. However, it is not a true running total to because the image number is dependent on the folder in use.

The camera simply takes the last number it finds in the current folder and adds 1 to it, up to If you switch to an empty folder or create a new one, the numbering starts over at Since a folder cannot hold more than pictures, you will not exceed as a running sequence in any one folder. Each folder has its own number series and causes the File number sequence to Reset.

Choose one of the three options from the list. Settings Recommendation: I heartily recommend that you set File number sequence to On. Why take a chance on accidentally overwriting the last shooting session when you transfer files to your computer just because they have the same image numbers? I just have to be careful to change 1DY to 2DY when the File number sequence rolls over from to The d8 Information display setting allows your camera to automatically sense how much ambient light is in the area where you are shooting.

If the ambient light is bright, the color of the Information display screen will also be bright so it can overcome the ambient light. To open the Information display screen, press the Info button. The Information display screen shows the current shooting information. Its color and brightness will adjust according to the ambient light the camera senses through the lens.

Try this: With your lens cap off, your camera turned on, and nothing displayed on the Monitor, press the Info button. Now go into a dark area or put your lens cap on and cover the eyepiece with your hand. If you choose Manual, you have two options: B Dark on light light blue screen or W Light on dark dark blue screen figure 4. The camera will choose the light blue or dark blue screen depending on the ambient light level.

If you want to manually select the screen color for the Information display screen, use the following steps:. The next screen shows the B Dark on light and W Light on dark choices. Settings Recommendation: I leave my camera set to Auto because it seems to work very well at automatically selecting the proper screen for the current light conditions. If you prefer one screen over another, you can select it and it will stay that way all the time. The d9 LCD illumination setting gives you a simple way to set how the illumination of the Control panel backlight works.

Here are the two choices and how they work:. If you move the Power switch all the way to the right, the Control panel will light up. If you shoot in the dark a lot and need to refer to the Control panel often, switch this setting to On. You have the LCD illuminator on the ring around the Shutter-release button to manually turn on the Control panel light when needed.

The d10 Exposure delay mode setting introduces a delay of one to three seconds after the Shutter-release button is pressed—and the reflex mirror is raised—before the shutter is actually released. The intention is that during the delay the camera vibrations will die down and the image will be sharper.

This allows the vibrations from the mirror movement to dissipate before the shutter fires. But for slow shooting of static scenes, this is great and keeps you from having to use Mirror-up MUP , which requires two Shutter-release button presses to take a picture. Exposure delay mode has the same effect as MUP but requires only one Shutter-release button press after a delay is selected.

Choose 1 s, 2 s, 3 s, or Off from the menu. Settings Recommendation: Exposure delay mode is very important to me. As a nature shooter, I use it frequently for single shots. If you handhold your camera, shoot mostly static subjects, and want sharper pictures, this setting will help. On a tripod, this is a time saver compared to Mirror-up MUP mode, which requires two Shutter-release button presses or a second time-out delay.

The d11 Flash warning setting enables a blinking lightning bolt warning in the Viewfinder when the camera detects that the ambient light is too low to take a sharp picture. However, in release modes like P, S, A, or M you will see this warning often. For detailed instructions on how to install this firmware update click here.

System requirements. Built-in USB port. Turn the camera on. Turn the camera off. Download the file F-DVM. Double click the F-DVM. The folder titled D40 Update will be created inside the disc image which contains the firmware file AD Copy the downloaded file 'AD For more detailed instructions on how to install this firmware update click here.

Download Center D40 Firmware.