Nikon D600 For Dummies

5

Playback Mode: Viewing, Erasing, and Protecting Photos

In This Chapter

• Exploring picture playback functions
• Deciphering the picture information displays
• Understanding histograms
• Deleting and hiding bad pictures and protecting great ones
• Creating an in-camera slide show
• Viewing pictures (and movies) on a television set

Without question, my favorite thing about digital photography is being able to view my pictures the instant after I shoot them. No more guessing whether I captured the image or need to try again, as in the film days; no more wasting money on developing pictures that stink.

Seeing your pictures is just the start of the things you can do when you switch your camera to playback mode, though. You also can review settings you used to take the picture, display graphics that alert you to exposure problems, and add file markers that protect a picture from accidental erasure. This chapter tells you how to use all these playback features and more.

Note: Some information in this chapter applies only to still photographs; if a feature also works for movie files, I spell that out. For help with the basics of movie playback, see the end of Chapter 4.