{"id":466,"date":"2008-10-30T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-10-30T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:40:37","slug":"major-update-of-nikon-d300-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2008\/10\/30\/major-update-of-nikon-d300-firmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Major update of Nikon D300 firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a bit unusual, but there comes a large update to the firmware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/slr\/nikon-d300\/\">Nikon D300<\/a> SLR camera.<\/p>\n<p>You can go and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.nikontech.com\/cgi-bin\/nikonusa.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=16149&#038;p_created=1225133806&#038;p_sid=qZNmfDhj&#038;p_accessibility=0&#038;p_redirect=&#038;p_lva=&#038;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD04MSw4MSZwX3Byb2RzPTE5LDQ1MyZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PTIuNDUzJnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTE*&#038;p_li=&#038;p_topview=1\">download it from Nikon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>A long list of modifications enabled with upgrade to v.1.10 firmware<\/h4>\n<p><font size=\"-1\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Highlights playback option has been moved from <strong>Display Mode<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Basic photo info<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Highlights<\/strong> in the playback menu to <strong>Display mode<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Detailed photo info<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Highlights.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The size and color of &#8220;Demo&#8221; displayed in the monitor with playback when <strong>No memory card?<\/strong> in the Custom Settings has been set to <strong>Enable Release<\/strong> have been modified.<\/li>\n<li>The range of settings available for <strong>ISO sensitivity settings &gt; ISO sensitivity auto control &gt; Minimum shutter speed<\/strong> in the shooting menu has been increased from 1\/250 &#8211; 1s to 1\/4000 &#8211; 1s.<\/li>\n<li>When shooting in hand-held live view mode and the frame is magnified prior to autofocusing, operation has been modified so that display returns to the magnified display rather then the full frame display.<\/li>\n<li>Images captured with <strong>Rotate tall<\/strong>, in the playback menu, set to <strong>On<\/strong>, are not automatically rotated for display immediately after capture (image review).<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>Copyright information<\/strong> has been added to the setup menu. When <strong>Copyright information<\/strong> is enabled, the copyright symbol ( \u00a9 ) is shown in the shooting info display.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recent settings<\/strong> can now be displayed in the place of <strong>My Menu<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Custom Setting <strong>e3 Flash cntrl for built in flash<\/strong> ( <strong>e3 Optional flash<\/strong> when an optional Speedlight is mounted on the camera) can now be added to My Menu using the <strong>Add items &gt; Custom setting menu &gt; Bracketing\/ flash.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The degree of the <strong>High ISO NR<\/strong> setting can now be confirmed in the shooting info display while the <strong>High ISO NR<\/strong> setting item, in the shooting menu, is being applied.<\/li>\n<li>Ankara, Riyadh, Kuwait, and Manama have been added to the <strong>Time zone<\/strong> options for the <strong>World time<\/strong> item in the setup menu.<\/li>\n<li>When a GPS device is used and no heading information is available, &#8211;.&#8211;\u00b0 is now displayed for the <strong>Position \/ Heading<\/strong> option in the <strong>GPS<\/strong> item in the setup menu.<\/li>\n<li>When shooting in live view mode using Camera Control Pro 2 (ver. 2.2.0 or later) with a PC-E lens, the aperture setting can now be adjusted from the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Focus acquisition performance in dynamic-area AF mode has been improved.<\/li>\n<li>Focus acquisition performance with contrast-detect AF has been improved.<\/li>\n<li>Auto white balance performance has been improved.<\/li>\n<li>The fourth digit in seconds display for GPS latitude and longitude information is now rounded off rather than omitted.<\/li>\n<li>The current <strong>MB-D10 battery type<\/strong> setting can now be confirmed in the shooting menu display when R6\/AA- size batteries are used with the Multi-Power Battery pack MB-D10.<\/li>\n<li>An issue that caused an increase in noise when shooting in [M] exposure mode at a shutter speed setting of <strong>bulb<\/strong> with the shutter held open for less than 8 seconds and <strong>Long exp. NR<\/strong> enabled has been resolved.<\/li>\n<li>An issue that prevented shutter release at the specified shutter speed when no operations were performed for 30 seconds in mirror up mode has been resolved.<\/li>\n<li>An issue that caused abnormal image display when <strong>Image review<\/strong> was set to <strong>On<\/strong> and the playback zoom in button was pressed immediately after shooting at the following settings has been resolved.<\/li>\n<li style=\"LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Image quality: NEF (RAW)&nbsp;+ JPEG<\/li>\n<li>NEF (RAW) recording: Lossless compressed or Compressed<\/li>\n<li>Image size: S or M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When the Speedlight SB-800 was mounted on the camera with flash mode set to distance-priority manual (GN) mode, and the camera recovered from standby mode triggered by the auto meter off function, the distance information in the SB-800 changed. This issue has been resolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a bit unusual, but there comes a large update to the firmware of the Nikon D300 SLR camera. You can go and download it from Nikon. A long list of modifications enabled with upgrade to v.1.10 firmware The Highlights playback option has been moved from Display Mode &gt; Basic photo info &gt; Highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firmwares","category-nikon-d300"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}