Mysterious icon on the LCD

BigJim

Senior Member
On my D5300 LCD screen, on the top right corner next to the music note icon for the focus lock sound is a icon of a hand with (( on one side and )) on the other. I was thinking this was for VR with my Nikkor lenses or VC with my Tamron lens. It is on with all my lenses, both Nikkor and Tamron. I turned off the VC and VR when I mount the lenses and the icon still stays on the screen. I read the manual, even looked at the icon legend in the manual for the lcd screen and it does not show this icon or explain this icon anywhere in the manual, nor could I find anything about this on the Nikon site or Google. Any enlightenment as to what this icon means would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
On my D5300 LCD screen, on the top right corner next to the music note icon for the focus lock sound is a icon of a hand with (( on one side and )) on the other. I was thinking this was for VR with my Nikkor lenses or VC with my Tamron lens. It is on with all my lenses, both Nikkor and Tamron. I turned off the VC and VR when I mount the lenses and the icon still stays on the screen. I read the manual, even looked at the icon legend in the manual for the lcd screen and it does not show this icon or explain this icon anywhere in the manual, nor could I find anything about this on the Nikon site or Google. Any enlightenment as to what this icon means would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Is it the icon indicating a wireless connection?
 

BigJim

Senior Member
No, I dont use wireless with the camera nor have wifi turned on or ever used it since new. It goes out when I take a lens off, but returns when one is put on. Here is a pic. IMG_20160227_204813.jpg
 

PapaST

Senior Member
Perhaps with the settings you are using the camera is saying... "you could have some camera shake" happening here. Try to set high ISO with large aperture and fast shutter and see if that hand "shake" goes away.
 

BigJim

Senior Member
I will give that a try in the morning, but if I remember correctly it was still being displayed even sitting on a tripod..Ill report my findings in the morning. Thanks for the replies!
 

PapaST

Senior Member
Your camera probably doesn't know when it's on a tripod or not. It is probably set to give that signal if your shutter speed is slow regardless. Like for instance if you have a 50mm lens attached and the shutter is set at 1/15 of a second.
 

PapaST

Senior Member
What was you shutter speed set to on that screenshot? Just out of curiosity. I mean if it was 1/500th then it kills my theory.
 

BigJim

Senior Member
What was you shutter speed set to on that screenshot? Just out of curiosity. I mean if it was 1/500th then it kills my theory.

Definately was not at 500, I dont remember what it was on when I taken the pic, I dont think it was any higher then 1/125th
 

davey61

New member
The hand indicates that VR is on, if you switch VR off it disappears, the note symbol indicates you have focus lock beep enabled, switch beep off and the note has a line through it.
Hope this helps
 

BigJim

Senior Member
It stays on whether I have VR on or off. It only disappears when the lens is removed from the body. I can flip the VR toggle switch on any lens I have to the off position and the icon still displays. Only time it disappears is when the lens is removed from the body.
 

BigJim

Senior Member
Always in manual mode, all shutter speeds from 125-4000 and every lens i have from nikkors to tamrons and sigma. I spent hours testing setting combinations. Even lenses without vc, it still displays it. As i said before, it only disappears when a lens is off the body. I have about 10k clicks on the body, there is nothing unusual about the operation of the body or lenses, images are sharp as expected. Just the icon annoys me not knowing why it is on. .
 

davey61

New member
That is odd, I only have Nikon lenses at the moment with both VR1 and VR2 it turns off when I switch VR off on the lenses, I wonder if the firmware is corrupted in some way and stuck in the lit mode.
 
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