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What is this strange circular design between shutter and EV compensation button on the Nikon D3300?
On page 1 of theNikon D3300 reference manual the [+/-] button pictured to the lower left in the image included in the question is listed as the:
When shooting in manual exposure mode with Nikon ...
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Photo contrast in early morning
A frequent problem is that your White Balance is set to "Auto". When it is so, the camera adjusts the colors so that the picture looks neutral, and this washes out any natural dominant color....
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What does the "[r #]" value in Nikon viewfinders and displays mean?
It's the number of shots remaining (hence the "r") that you can take and store on your card.
When you half-press the shutter button, the number changes to the number of shots remaining in your memory ...
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Are scene modes on compact camera much useful?
Scene modes are particularly important on small cameras. In fact high end DSLRs do not have any scene modes because they give complete control over the camera.
Scene modes basically abstract the ...
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Photo contrast in early morning
I think the camera did OK with the exposure, it just badly guessed the white balance.
It will try to make the centre of an exposure an even 50% grey, which can sometimes in high contrast lighting push ...
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What does the "[r #]" value in Nikon viewfinders and displays mean?
Could someone please tell me what it does, or at least what it's called, so I can look it up?
Scottbb's answer is correct and you should accept it, but I wanted to follow up with a little more ...
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Are scene modes on compact camera much useful?
Scene modes as they are typically referred to are very useful in basic compact cameras. They allow the user to hint to the camera what type of image settings to use. For example a common scene mode ...
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Photo contrast in early morning
What should I change in the camera settings to achieve a photograph with more contrast?
The basic problem is not the camera settings. It's that three-fourths of the image you told the camera to ...
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Strategy for quickly turing off exposure bracketing on Pentax cameras
There's a third option (although a little bit of a hack), most Pentaxes (including the K-50) allow you to specify which options are retained when the camera is turned off (under "Memory" in the ...
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Why would I use manual camera controls instead of the automatic modes?
One thing that hasn't been pointed out here is the difference between 'incident light' (the light falling on the subject) and 'reflected light' (the light bouncing off the subject). Your camera can ...
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How to enable exposure bracketing on the Pentax K-50 while also selecting the focus point
Just press/long-press the Ok button:
When in menu mode, simply press to switch to focus point selection
When in focus point selection, long-press to switch back to menu mode
When in focus point ...
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Is there a battery grip for the D3200 with a command dial on it?
It's highly doubtful such a grip exists.
Nikon did not design the D3200 to accommodate a grip.
Nikon doesn't offer a grip for the D3200 and other D3xx0 series cameras.
There are no additional ...
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What Nikon DSLR has this colorful user interface on the rear LCD?
What is that camera?
The camera you've pictured appears to be a Nikon D750.
How many cameras these days have it especially Nikon D5300?
Well, pretty much all digital SLR cameras have full color ...
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Photo contrast in early morning
The other answer mentioned white balance, but I think it is also possible that you were simply overexposing.
When there is relatively little light in the scene (like around sunrise or sunset), the ...
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Photo contrast in early morning
I would expect a backlit scene like that to have a very high dynamic range.
It appears to me that your camera has some type of HDR function enabled (D-lighting, Auto Lighting Optimizer, etc). When ...
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Are scene modes on compact camera much useful?
I suspect the "seller"¹ told you what they did to entice you to buy the camera. What the seller told you isn't exactly true and correct.
¹ Which, as it turns out, is not a seller of this camera at ...
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Is there any way to disable pop-up UI animations on the Sony RX1R II?
Open menu:
Tab 2 (Gear icon) > Page 2 > Exposure Set. Guide > Off
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Why do camera bodies and some lenses both have autofocus / manual switches?
Some cameras can use lenses that don't have a built-in autofocus motor like the Nikkor AF series of lenses. Those cameras have an internal motor with an AF-coupling. So you have a switch on the camera,...
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What Nikon DSLR has this colorful user interface on the rear LCD?
It's not the best photo I've ever taken, but this photo of the D5300 menu shows the previews of the six available options for its Info screen:
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Does either the Nikon Z vs Canon R UI offer quick switching for storage folders?
For Nikon Z, the fastest way seems to be:
Add "Storage folder" to "My menu" and move it to the top
Assign "Access top item in MY MENU" to an fn button
You then get the &...
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Fuji X-T4 location download indicator blinking
Found it (rather obvious in hindsight) - Setup, Connection Setting, General Settings, Geotagging > OFF.
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Why does the mode dial on my Canon camera set the wrong mode? (Av is P, M is C2, etc.)
I've experience the same issue while repairing a 5D3, it came out that the issue was caused by the top cover flat cable not properly connecting to the main board of the camera. Solved by cleaning with ...
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My lens doesn't have switches or buttons for focus or VR — does this matter?
I'm guessing that your camera came with the new AF-P kit lenses, which do not have any switches on them. Instead, it is all controlled in the camera menu. If you do not see the options in your camera'...
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How can I display the virtual horizon in the viewfinder of my Nikon D7200?
It's quite easy:
Bring up the Camera Menu and under the CUSTOM SETTINGS MENU go to “f Controls”. Scroll down to “f4 - Assign Fn button”. Press the right arrow button once. You will now see a list of ...
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IS Start? What does it mean and what does it stand for? (Canon 80D)
The image is of a shaking hand — I and S stand for "image stabilization".
This is explained on page 439 of the manual (in English):
IS start
If you press the button assigned to this function ...
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What is Canon RF control ring?
The control ring is a third ring on the lens in addition to the zoom and focus rings (of course primes lack the zoom ring so they have only two rings: focus and control). The control ring typically ...
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How can I fix my Canon 600D's mode dial?
Your photo shows the mode selector knob at "Night Portrait" mode. Is that as far as it can physically move?
If your mode dial selector knob physically will not turn to the "Video" mode, your camera ...
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How do Polaroid cameras determine the shutter speed and how can I manipulate this?
To properly answer your question, I think a course in light metering and exposure would be necessary, but this is beyond the scope of this forum. I will try to keep it short.
Your question is by no ...
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Does either the Nikon Z vs Canon R UI offer quick switching for storage folders?
The Canon 1-Series bodies have a few dedicated buttons and even a small monochrome LCD on the back of the camera for file/folder settings. I'm not aware that you can do that on any other Canon body ...
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Is there any way to disable pop-up UI animations on the Sony RX1R II?
This can be done by changing the available display options in the menu.
On my Sony (A77II) there are 3 preview display options, one including the mentioned scale and a info display option.
The 3 ...
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