Camera Settings

Jeff_J

Senior Member
I heard that you can save your camera settings to the SD card. Is that an option on the D5200 or only the higher end cameras? This sounds really handy, but wasn't able to find anything about it in my manual. If it does have the ability to do it, do you know where it might in the manual or what setting in the camera I need to do to accomplish this?
 

Jeff_J

Senior Member
Well a couple of reasons. First, if anything bad can happen it will happen to me. And I heard of this way to backup your settings. Second, my memory is pretty short. So it would be nice to have a way to restore the settings for when I screw them up. Hope that answers the question. Although it looks like I can not do it with this model.
 
Well a couple of reasons. First, if anything bad can happen it will happen to me. And I heard of this way to backup your settings. Second, my memory is pretty short. So it would be nice to have a way to restore the settings for when I screw them up. Hope that answers the question. Although it looks like I can not do it with this model.


most of the settings are pretty basic. Just make a list on paper of what you have changed. For the most part the ones you have to remember are if you shoot RAW or JPEG. If JPEG then you need to be shooting FINE and LARGE. ISO is something you need to either be changing all the time but if you don't then you need to be setting it on AUTO ISO with a minimum of 100 and the MAX you will need to decide but I would not want it too high. Some of the D5200 shooters can answer that better. As you set up your camera just make a note of what you change and what you changed it to. Then if you ever just get things so screwed up you can so a reset and follow your list to get it back in place.
 

escape

New member
then you need to be setting it on AUTO ISO with a minimum of 100 and the MAX you will need to decide but I would not want it too high. Some of the D5200 shooters can answer that better.
Personally, I don't go above ISO 1600 with this camera, but even 1600 can look ugly if you end up having to boost exposure in post processing. But I guess it all depends on what you're going to be doing with the photos. If you're just going to resize them down to post on facebook or email to friends/family, then even higher ISO values should work.
 

Whiskeyman

Senior Member
... but even 1600 can look ugly if you end up having to boost exposure in post processing.


This is the case for nearly any underexposed image, at any ISO and with any camera. Proper exposure will really help reduce noise in the final image. There are cases where you just can't get away with not underexposing the image, but where you can, proper exposure, even at high ISO, is paramount.

WM
 
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