Some rather old news, but some Nikon D300 users may have missed it – a firmware update 1.10 was made available a couple of weeks ago and is worth applying. Separate Windows and Mac links are provide and you can read full details of the improvements on either page, along with the detailed instructions about applying both parts of the upgrade. It took me about 5 minutes to download and upgrade and there are for me few significant changes but some useful minor bug fixes;
So it isn’t earth-shattering to find:
The range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings > ISO sensitivity auto control > Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250 1 s to 1/4000 1 s.
Although there might be situations where this will be useful. But if you have a speed set when you carry out the upgrade be warned that it will need to be set to the original value again afterwards – mine was changed to something very silly.
One thing that must be applauded is the addition of a copyright messsage facility, especially when thinking about the inevitable ‘orphan’ rights legislation:
A Copyright information item has been added to the setup menu. When Copyright information is enabled, the copyright symbol (©) is shown in the shooting info display.
I wasn’t sure what to put in the two fields provided.
The ARTIST field allows 36 characters and ends up in the IPTC Contact/Creator field (as named in Lightroom) while the COPYRIGHT field allows 54 characters and fills the IPTC Copyright/Copyright Field, but there is no © symbol available (though you could use (C)) and the Copyright Status is left as unknown.
Of course you could add other information – for example a phone number or e-mail address or domain name into either or both fields as space allows, to make sure that every image you make is suitably baptised at birth, although both phone numbers and e-mail addresses often change relatively soon. But it’s a start.