10 Nikon Menu Options that you might not know About !

In this video I go over 10 menu options found in Nikon cameras that not every one knows about. These are common settings that come up in conversations about Nikon cameras and not many people know they exist or are even an option!
1. Focus Point Wrap around
2. Power off Delay
3. Exposure Delay Mode
4. Shutter Speed & Aperture lock
5. Release Button to use Dial
6. Airplane mode
7. My Menu
8. Playback display options
9. The "?"
10. Information display
I talk about each of these camera settings and how they can be useful to real world photography.
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Thank you so much for watching !
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[@RicciTalks]

Hey Everyone ! I hope you find this video useful and it helps you find some menu items you never knew existed ! if you want me to make more videos like this then let me know ! Also what's your favourite Lesser known Menu item ? As always thanks for watching !

[@patrickmolloy6994]

note with the Z6 & Z7 the My Menu settings are not saved when you use Save Settings. Same with U1/2/3, they're not saved either. If enough people tell Nikon, maybe they will fix it.

[@JimboP-Outside]

Best little known menu option for me was the options I could choose to see upon playback. I’m about to change mine now. Thank you! 🙏👍

[@timthompson6109]

I really appreciate these type videos.

[@romanhar4151]

What are you using on my menue?

[@romanhar4151]

I would also like to know what do you assign to the Z 70-200 buttons and rings..

[@vision-gc4hy]

"For those of you that may be struggling." The way you break all of this down for every type of viewer is why you're the best at this.

[@loganhall5580]

Right! Every dollar saved on unnecessary accessories (example here: shutter cable) is another dollar towards new glass :)

[@ChrisWesselman]

Wow, after dozens of sessions with my settings, I learned 3(!) new things: Release button to use dial (very handy for using the front control dial), Info Display (night mode), and what Airplane mode really does (turns off WiFi & Bluetooth which, like you, I never use) for better battery life. Big thanks for this video!

[@vaibhavravichandran]

Another tip related to the exposure delay mode, if you want to really make sure you shake the camera as less as possible then you can use the touch screen release mode to trigger the shutter with a very light tap on the touch screen. I feel this requires you to press down on the camera even less

[@BucNasty32]

As someone who has just switched to Nikon Z6ii I must say your vids have been a real help.

[@sweetscience1988]

Thanks for pointing out the benefits of Exposure Delay Mode I was unaware it existed and always used the timer, this is a game changer for me thank you!

[@gamedoutgamer]

Thank you. There's a setting to disable taking photos when touching the rear LCD which is super useful to avoid accidentally taking pics.

[@bobmorse5896]

Thank you! I learn something every time I watch your videos.

[@NikCan66]

Excellent tips yet again and had forgotten about some of these settings as I work in mostly the action sports area and maybe once every 6 months I would venture into architecture and landscape where I would use these features.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Thanks very much, Ricci! These sorts of reminders are always helpful. So many choices these days, so it's helpful to find new or forgotten ways to improve our workflow. Take care!

[@RicciTalks]

Thanks for watching as always !

[@alan20063]

Not having feeling in my fingers tips, being able to press say the iso button/release; change the dial and then press ISO button to fix the setting is pure magic. Thank you

[@jpdj2715]

Your AF explanations well received indeed (keep doing these, please), I have tried to construct a table, with the different parameters to adjust how AF works, and the effect in the cells between the parameters. This illustrates the scatteredness of these parameters in the UI. I started that with a decision graph, first, but the table is more simple and can be glanced over in the blink of an eye.

[@schwab21121]

Thank you for the information. I really found useful the "My Menu" setup. I am going to set this up on my d750.

[@romanhar4151]

Thank you very much. (It doesn't matter how much you know there is allways something to learn!! ) MY MENUE: AND assign it to the Movie-record button (f2: custom control assign) I use it for: ISO-settings, Image controll, choose of FX/DX area, a3: AF-Lock-on, a4:face-recog, Format-Card. The best remote was on the D70 - a simpl cheep small remote (ML-L3) for D7200, D750, D5500, D3300, D5300, D610, D7100, D5200, D600, D7000, D3200, D90, D3000, D5100, D60, D5000, D50, D70, D70s, D40X, D40, D80.

[@dah7772]

Yes would love to see more videos like this

[@zujosuchanek]

Some useful tidbits in there. Thanks for making this video, and for making all of the others as well. Very helpful.

[@GreenTekHaus]

Thanks! Great info, even though I knew about half of them, but still learned something that I hadn't thought about before, like the Airplane Mode and how it could save battery life! Thank you!

[@AnOpticalView]

Excellent info Ricci, thanks.

[@michelgilson1644]

Simply perfect ! Thanks 😋

[@Altitude2011]

Hi Ricci, one more great video! Thank you. This kind of video is really helpful. Out of the ten settings you talked about, there were three that I did not know about.

[@RicciTalks]

Thanks alot ! Great to hear some of them are new to you !

[@RT-rt9rt]

Ricci, Thanks for sharing this. Even though I knew most of them but to get your perspective on the feature was helpful. Once again thanks...

[@bruceallan8035]

Thanks Ricci this was very helpful for me....

[@mchjubjub6915]

Brilliant. Thanks Ricci. A couple of options I didnt know about and might start using👍

[@grumbirky]

On my D700’s I had the Fn button set to go to the top item on My Menu. Here I had the AF option, so I could quickly turn the focussing on on the shutter. Was very convenient when a friend wanted to take a picture.

[@mikecessford9450]

More video's like this to help get the best out of my gear would be great.

[@johnmccaffery5186]

Awesome video! I really needed this.

[@DietrichLasa]

Thank you very much for these handy ideas. I particularly needed the exposure delay mode allocated to a button (and also did the airplane mode after watching your video).

[@gaperklake]

Excellent stuff, as always. Thank you,

[@paulthomas8986]

Great information for a new Nikon z6 owner. Thank you.

[@stevenj2380]

Thank you, The question mark is most important one for me to remember, I know of all the settings, but the description of button customization particularly are a very confusing shorthand so I have not set them up for my best access and not dwelling in them. Just a 'hobby'. Using D7200, D7500 and a D750.

[@petersymes8467]

Thank you, excellent clear simple instructions.

[@vinayhaalgaar]

Very Useful. Thank you.

[@minus1db]

Super useful thank you so much

[@blanc087]

Good video as always thank you

[@einmanaulfur]

Wow, really cool infos! Thanks! Another great thing about exposure delay is that the setting is saved to customer user settings 1, 2, 3. I was a bit shocked that the "motoring modes" (don't know the real name in English, single frame, burst and self-timer) are not saved in the user settings. Exposure delay is a nice workaround.

[@stevenally8015]

Very helpful. I have a D800 and D500 and while I had implemented some of those tips I learned some new ones. Thanks!

[@stefanhammerl]

Thanks for your video and your helpful information about our Nikon cameras!

[@markturriff994]

Brilliant Ricci - thanks

[@dainiusbankauskas2444]

Thank you , it is very useful

[@jimwlouavl]

Great tips. Thanks.

[@terrynewmanphotography]

Really useful video thank you Ricci. Don’t use My Menu but I should do. Exposure Delay Mode useful as I’ve found the cable plug in to camera fiddly as its not obvious which way round it goes in I had put a small tippex mark on the side of the cable to denote that’s backward facing. I can ditch that cable now...

[@jerrygrossman3140]

Another great video as always

[@mireillex7249]

Thank you so much😊👍

[@26BloodKiller]

Never know about my menu. It has always been recently settings. Thanks for that I set up all menu items that I use alot. 👍🏻

[@harryburnett7086]

Love your videos

[@hopeforthefuturesg]

Like your videos! I just got the z7 with kit lens and 85 1.8..man the 85mm is soo nice.really like the z7 coming from a d850..now I got the best of both worlds. But I can see me transitioning to mirrorless faster than I thought

[@HJN67]

Again, a good video explaining how to setup and use your camera. Thanks You do know you are a Nikon nerd when you already have changed all those settings. :-) Regarding nr. 5 - Release button to use dial. You don't have to hit the button the second time to accept the change. As soon as you have made the change via the dial, you can hit the shutter-button, and start shooting with the new setting. Making it much quicker to use. Also, you didn't mention the asterisk * symbol in the menu. If you in the Custom Setting Menu go into one of the submenus, A, B - G you will see a long list of options with names like example; c1, c2, c3 etc. If there is an * over the letter c, it means you have changed that setting to something else than the cameras standard setting. That is always nice to know.

[@scottweaverphotovideo]

VERY helpful vid. Thank you! I used my z7 on a commercial assignment yesterday. Nothing beats working with new equipment under pressure if you want to see how it performs. My #1 gripe was the z7 "turning off" constantly. The delay was driving me crazy. Now I understand how to correct this... and consequently I've just ordered another battery! Another help would be turning off image review right after a shot in the EVF. I began immediately tapping the shutter release to clear it because I needed to see the live action before me and keep shooting. I'm guessing there's an option to control that, just need to find it. Thanks very much, Ricci!

[@RicciTalks]

Menu Playback menu Image review Off

[@rishabhyadav-ql5wl]

Thank you for making this video Sir, A very informative video .

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Very helpful!

[@katasiapa]

Thank you

[@jimbolic0809]

Super useful tips!

[@Cedness]

Very useful ! Thank you !

[@MrSandeepmukherjee]

Very very useful tips... Thanks

[@cditfurth]

Very useful. Please continue that.

[@gravitymediapro]

New sub and thumbs up. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they’re very good and helpful.

[@KarenVaisman1]

Very helpful. I would enjoy more videos like this !

[@lynelljansen8057]

Great info, most I knew but years of fiddling with my camera to learn them. Great menu tips as well.

[@kerrygrim7934]

Just bout a Z 7 II. This video is very helpful.

[@LeandroOliveira-hs6su]

Thanks for this very informative video. It was quite helpful.

[@mehmet5206]

Very informative..cheers.

[@tallaganda83]

Got a Z7 love it but there are a few things I’d improve via firmware or in the next model, 1. Longer than 30 second exposures similar to how Fuji does it including displaying the time as it ticks down, I would be happy with say 3 minutes. 2. Focus stacking added to the i menu 3. Slightly better implementation of focus stacking where you could touch a few pre selected points to focus on and also AE bracket each step.

[@stevetqp9152]

Great points! I'm strongly considering selling my Fuji kit for the Z7, since I frequently print large (24" x 36" and up), and while I get excellent, sharp results from my X-T3 system, I feel that I would see a nice improvement in sharpness and detail retention at these larger print sizes, with the Z7 and the stellar sharp Nikkor S lenses!

[@richardwood6121]

Thanks for the video, reminded me of some really useful overlooked stuff. More like this please, will keep me occupied while patiently waiting for the Z 70-200 f2.8 to hit the market.

[@flickrchannyuk4396]

Thanks Ricci, useful video. Never considered item 4 and never heard of item 5 or 10 before. Would love to be able to have a clean screen on the back LCD while shooting, but haven't found a way of setting that.

[@ScriptureToday]

One feature I’d love to see implemented is automatic (or manual) screen rotation, as with a smartphone. When I mount a body to a copy stand and flip up the screen, the menu is upside down. It would seem a simple fix since the cameras already have virtual horizon. Thanks for the great videos…looking forward to those Z9 reviews in the future.

[@patrick.771]

Thanks for the video! I never used a remote since they stopped to equip their cameras with infrared ... Hate cable releases. And now I will start to use exposure delay insted of self timer :) The only thing that annoys me a bit is that you can't assign a specified time (e.g. 1 second) to one button - you always have to rotate the wheel to select the time.

[@stallebrass]

Sticking exposure delay on the fn+dial is a great idea.

[@adolfousiermarketstars6765]

awesome 👏🏻

[@aetibaar]

excellent video

[@jscook54]

So helpful. Thanks

[@RicciTalks]

Great to hear ! Thanks for watching !

[@dsp1412]

Excellent and very informative video. 👏

[@billmoyer3254]

Thank you!!

[@carljarvinen1189]

Thanks for this video, very helpful. Similar additional videos would be appreciated.

[@youtube1sm]

simple video but very very helpful content.

[@RicciTalks]

Thanks for watching!

[@JoshHarrisPhotography]

If you're shooting landscapes on a tripod, I highly recommend using Electronic Front Curtain Shutter mode. This will give you the most vibration-free image possible (as well as prolong the life of your shutter). It's good up to 1/2000s frame rate, so you can pretty much leave it in that mode full-time, or you can add it to a user-control preset.

[@RaymondParkerPhoto]

Good tips -- some of which I was unfamiliar with. Thanks.

[@SigvaldtM]

Nice Video. This was pretty helpful, thank you :)

[@ankitbasu1677]

Great insights….

[@patricklindahl868]

I often used U-settings on my DSLRs but not on my Z6, mainly because all temporary changes are going back to saved settings as soon as the camera is turned off. On my D7x00-cameras temporary changes stayed there until I selected another mode. I found this very useful as a basic setting for different types of photos, U1 for indoor flash, U2 for outdoor photographing. I selected a U-mode, made some changes depending on the situation, and when I have finished my session (or screwed everything up :) I just dial on the mode switch and everything resets to saved settings. Do you ever use U-settings? What menu settings cannot be saved to Ux?

[@tdalton854]

Learned more good stuff. thanks

[@Amen20]

Very usefull, got one that will help me out a lot :) Would love a video how to set up U1,U2 options on a wheel. I think i know how to do it but there might still be something I'm missing

[@judilecompte9377]

Hi Ricci. Thanks for the video! Will you please explain the difference between exposure delay and the self timer in the z6/z7?

[@robertvarner9519]

A good review.

[@alihancaglar74]

Very useful as always 🤛😁

[@RicciTalks]

Thanks for watching !

[@stevejarvis186]

Re my previous post, I've yet to check my D500 to see if I can set up wrap around on that

[@ronboe6325]

I wish the aperture lock and shutter speed lock was on my radar earlier; that is one I can make use of. Thank you!

[@beardog6569]

Why not shoot manual?

[@ronboe6325]

@@beardog6569 Shooting agility dogs, I see the speed to 1200 (or higher if there are a lot of Border Collies) and at least f/7. Then I let ISO float. That way I can freeze the action and with a deep enough depth of field to give me some buffer on the faster dogs. But between runs sometimes I'd accidently end up changing either one while moving around. So, yes, shooting manual is the way to go; and the way I go.

[@jpdj2715]

Very practical and welcome, these brief explanations. My general comment on written user guides and reference manuals is that they do not rise above the level of: a feature in a picture is labeled number x - legend: x is [name], text: the [name] thing is to adjust [name].

[@RicciTalks]

Iv always believed in learning practically rather than reading a manual

[@jpdj2715]

@@RicciTalks - between teachers, there is a discipline called didactic. It gives us models and jargon that facilitate to talk about the profession of teaching, and speed up learning it. We all know there are different learning types with either visual (a), auditory (b) or kinesthetic (c) learning preferences. It is funny to note how "visual" people are able to talk for hours about "visual" things that auditory people can listen to but cannot visualize. KZbin is full of it. More essential is another classification of learners. You are revealing here you are the "messing about" type (1) (experimentation or trial and error). Another category is the "thinker"(2) (building a cognitive model in the brain). You will also note that some learners are "bookworms" (3) and want to know the "definition" of everything - these write user guides and understand nothing (sick comment, sorry, but that's how those come across). Finally there is a group of "lazy bones" (4) who want a "shopping list" (tell me what I need) and "recipe" (tell me the steps how to do it) and don't dare to go deeper (no definitions, no experimentation, no thinking). My experience in teaching is that some learners move between these types, depending on the learning phase, subject and/or context. So your videos combine showing and explaining and touch on a, b, 4 and a bit of 2 - don't feel offended, you are doing well. (the feel/smell/touch people of c generally already know the limitations to them of video). Long story short, you can see why and where the market is, for F2F tutoring.

[@stevejarvis186]

Thank you for doing this video, I`ve set up my D7200 and D500 for some of these, although not all available on both cameras. With regard to the ? this appears on both my cameras but as soon as I try to select it, the ? goes off my screen, and it does that on both cameras.

[@snehasispal833]

Very useful tips. Now please tell me whether there's any shortcut to quickly change image quality, i.e. from (Raw + JPEG fine) to JPEG fine and vice versa.

[@tedk2814]

Thanks, I really enjoyed this video. I shoot sports with a D5 and D500 usually set Manual 1/1000 min, 2.8 with auto iso and was frustrated when shutter changed and I wasn't aware of it for several sequences. Apparently I changed the setting without knowing so I set up My Menu with shutter and Aperture lock, problem solved. I wonder if you might address an issue I'm noticing with my new Z6. During my first two portrait sessions with it , it would pop out of flash mode, the red flash icon lower right hand corner of lcd. I use godox AD200s with R2PRO II controller. Seems as every time I would show the shots to my subject on the LCD, it would revert to no flash. I would turn off the controller then back on, good to go. . New batteries, firm tightening on hot shoe didn't seem to help. worked just fine on my D810. anyhow love your channel and my new Z6, 24-70 f4 kit lens so sharp......

[@dakotabrownphotography]

I Ricci, just in regards to you using exposure delay mode. I do exactly the same setup for my long exposures, but what I like to do is activate the touch shutter, so when it comes to stopping the exposure longer then 30 seconds, you only need to lightly touch the back screen and it stops the exposure. For me it is far less risky then trying to press in a physical shutter button.

[@aussie8114]

On a long exposure the slight movement from a shutter press forms a very tiny percentage of the shot so it doesn’t effect the image at all, not unless you’re extremely clumsy. For the same reason mirror lock up has no noticeable advantage on a longer shutter speed shot. The speed range mirror up has benefits for depends on your focal length. But generally it’s about 1 second to 1/25, anything longer or shorter and mirror up has no visible benefits.

[@dakotabrownphotography]

LAZY DOG it does depend on the subject that your shooting. If there is a bright light source in the scene then the small movement of the camera from pushing the shutter could have an impact. For example a star trail photo at a longer focal length, the bump could possibly make the end of the star trail slightly misaligned. I think that the fact that the touch shutter is a button on the screen already, there is no harm in completely eliminating the risk by enabling such a small thing. I still use exposure delay but it’s finishing the exposure is where the risk is

[@quiver99]

Thanks Ricci. When are you going to upload your Z 24-200 review? That would be very helpful.

[@andyvan5692]

one question from this video, does the airplane mode disable the wr-r10 function for RADIO flash control and remote release?, or does this not occur, as they use the remote or 10-pin sockets?

[@RicciTalks]

Wr-r10 can still be used when in airplane mode. Airplane mode only refers to wifi and Bluetooth The wr-r10 only emits when being used so really you wouldn’t be using it on a plane so doesn’t need to be covered by the “airplane” mode protocol

[@tristanbane4873]

Also be aware that if increasing the standby delay on the Z series cameras VR will be enabled on adapted F lenses until it goes into standby. I reduced the standby timer on my Z6 once I figured this out. Reduces battery life and likely not great for the VR system

[@tallaganda83]

I cant believe I didn't know about the shutter delay. What a game changer. I setup my U1 as a landscape mode with it set like that. One thing I would like to know is can set minimum shutter speed in auto ISO in the i menu?

[@andyvan5692]

great video, covers most of the obscure ones; but you forgot non-cpu lens data and the exposure simulation features (in z6/z7 which allow the shot to show, for flash exposures, without showing a black screen, or to show the changes in exposure in the "live view").

[@RicciTalks]

There’s a lot of other settings I could of including but didn’t want to make the video too long ! I could cover another 10 settings like Non-cpu Af fine tune Apply settings to live view Time lapse Ect

[@saopaulosoul8714]

wow I never felt this daft before. the question mark button thing just changed it for me. I mean I know my camera inside and outside right now, but bloody hell would that have been useful to know like 1 year ago. I kept going through the online manual or goggling the terms. and come to think of it I always even wondered what the hell the question mark was for but this never occurred to me! 🤦‍♂️ 😆

[@jpdj2715]

#4 I have asked Nikon via regular channels to give me and my Z 7 an EV lock. I have to say that the requirement for "Manual" has become slightly less with "metering for the highlights", but I still have the requirement. Under an overcast sky, you can shoot panoramas on some Auto and your shots will stitch without any problem, metering for the highlights. When the sky/light varies between pictures, you need to go full Manual (including ISO and white-balance). In panos you have time to set manual properly, generally. The most important use case, for me, for locked EV, is event photography in mixed light environments where one picture has bright outside as background and another has not. Auto gives very different exposures. Here, I meter (measure light in the space) and set that exposure, to stick with it. All shots align relative to the people in them. Now allow me to a) have EV lock and b) adjust shutter/aperture with e.g. the lens's ring. In EV lock, the shutter/aperture combination is coupled inversely: if you change the exposure by 1 stop faster, the aperture opens up one stop at the same time. This gives constant exposure and allows you to take one shot with background blur and another one with everybody in the shot being sharp. Or adapt to motion. It also limits your adjustment to the aperture range of your lens, so if you need to go beyond that, you need to adjust ISO. I would want to see that and distance+DoF on a lens with display built in. Call it old Hasselblad-Zeiss-lens nostalgia (whatever), but it worked extremely well way back and still would today. I think that natural light, wedding and event photographers would all love it. By the way, the Nikon sphinx and oracle answered, thank you for the idea, we put it on our list, we are very busy and may have other priorities. A couple firmware updates later, I tend to think this means, go figure and don't call us, we call you.

thanks Ricci for the tips! I'm wondeing why not all the functions are allowed to set in the "i" menu. For inxtance, Enable/Disable grid, or the DOF preview for instance... i was not able to find them to add them to the "i" menu. If you know how, can you help me? thanks and cheers from Argentina.

[@emanuelschimpfossl5919]

Does the stabilisation turn of in the nikon z6 when on a tripod? Or can I use different custom modes? With my old dslr I could have custom settings for different types of photography (for the delay exposure with night photography). I hate to always turn the delay function on again, everytime the camera goes into standby-mode.