Question for Nikonians re: Highlights

[annnewjerz]

So I was fiddling around with my D60 today and somehow, I made the settings so highlights in my pictures automatically blink in black on my LCD screen after I take them.

I hope this makes sense. When I take a picture (for example, when we were driving, with sky and clouds in the picture) it pops up to view on my LCD screen and the clouds or other light/overexposed portions of the picture blink on and off in black. I know I shouldn't have pressed buttons without knowing exactly what I was doing...but I was on a long car ride and I was bored, can you blame me???

It is annoying me, but I can't figure out what it is that I pressed.

Any ideas???

 

[sdzman]

On my D40 you can get rid of this by hitting the up (or down) arrow located to the right side of the LCD screen. Pressing it will put up the histogram display and a couple of other displays on or over your pic, just keep pressing it until you get it back to normal. Hope this helps.

 

[thomas998]

on the back of the camera the big round button with ok in the middle of it... call it the scroll button or toggle button what ever you want to call it.. when you have a picture that you are viewing in the LCD press on the lower portion of the button like you want to scroll down it will cycle through the various viewer option, whether hightlight blink, histogram, data1, data2, or picture only.

 

[Chikabowa]

Everyone is correct. Just hit the up/down button of your toggle and you can switch between viewing the picture, the exif data, highlights, and histogram. It's helpful to view your blinkies because when you know what pixels you blew, you can either adjust and make corrections in your exposure, or you can say - that piece of sky doesn't matter - and move on from there.

 

[annnewjerz]

Thank you all! That is what I was doing...viewing the histogram for some pix that I took yesterday (like I said, I was bored) and I guess I hit the button one too many times.

Disaster averted, I thought I majorly broke something

 

[JonetteA]

I know on my D300 you can turn that option off. It is in the playback menu under display mode.

 

[GrillMouster]

"The blinkies" as I call them, can be annoying if you're just looking at the pictures for pleasure. However, I like to turn the blinkies on when I shoot in tough lighting situations, like really high contrast scenes, to help me avoid blowing out detail in important areas of the image. The histogram is useful, but it's so small that sometimes it looks fine and you don't notice the one tall line butted right up against the right edge of the histogram; it looks like part of the frame.

 

[Suburbanmom]

Glad your problem is fixed. Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. The first time I did that, I was sure I had ruined my camera.

 

[senecabeach]

Thanks for asking, Ann.
I've been wondering the same thing for 4 months on my D80. Now I can get rid of it!!