Archive for November, 2009

AF assist on a Nikon D300

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

This caught me out last night while playing with a slaved flash, I couldn’t get the auto focus assist light to come on my D300

So I did a search this morning, and found http://photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00OikF

“AF-assist illuminatior is only available when both of the following conditions are met:

1. Illuminator is turned on (pg.273)
2. Single-servo AF is selected for focus mode (pg.62).
3. Auto-area AF is chosen for AF-area mode, or single-point or dynamic-area AF is chosen (pg.64).
4. Center focus point is selected. I mean the focus point selection must be in center of viewfinder(pg.66)

I knew about 1,2 and 3. What caught me out was 4

Playing with a slave

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

That would be the flash kind not the wife kind

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