Nikon D600 review, part 3: fine-tuning your own shooting modes

Detailed and easy to learn menu of amateur camera, including high class, should be friendly to all users, including inexperienced beginners. With the Nikon D600, all the basic modes can be adjusted fairly quickly. For setting up scene programs, such as “Macro” “Landscape” “Night Scene” and others that amateurs need to know the manual beforehand.

• Quick setting of all capture modes thanks to the user-friendly interface.

• More mode options than the competition. More flexible adjustment of focus modes, exposure metering, continuous shooting speed, and other settings.

• Individual adjustment of focus precision for each lens ensures accurate focusing results.

• More than 50 customizable shooting settings allow you to customize the camera control for every photographer.

• The ability to reprogram the control buttons for the most important functions for the user increases the comfort of taking pictures.

With the 340-page user manual at your fingertips, you can do just about anything with the camera. Let’s take as an example some of these options, which the competitors do not have.

Let’s take a few pictures of yourself. Honestly, I often do that when I travel. No problem – we set the delayed shooting for 20 seconds you can go from 2 to 20 seconds . , set the number of captured frames up to 9 and the time interval between them. Everything, you can go to pose in front of the camera..

It also has flexible focus modes, focus correction for each lens individually, continuous shooting speed of 1 to 5 frames per second. You can assign other functions to the control buttons for your convenience – over 50 settings in total. And all this with the ability to save in camera memory.

You can create three groups of settings for different shooting situations, such as shooting without flash, shooting with flash, and for other options. The main thing is not to forget what we were doing and what options we had. If that’s the case, you can reset all settings in the menu.

To take pictures in unpredictable and quick-changing light conditions e.g. at a rock concert , you can and should set AUTO-ISO mode. This option allows you to adjust the upper limit of sensitivity, such as 3200 ISO, and the fastest shutter speed, such as 1/100 second. And no more thinking about it in the hustle and bustle of reportage.

Naturally, the camera has all the options for adjusting white balance in difficult conditions, from automatic, which uses Nikon’s new technologies, to traditional presets and manual settings.