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Review of the Nikon D80 dSLR - Design and Features (p2)
The mode dial is located on the top left of the camera. It contains 11 modes in all, including six preset modes (portrait, landscape, close up, sports, night landscape, and night portrait), an auto mode, and four manual modes: programmed auto [P], shutter-priority auto [S], aperture-priority auto [A] and fully manual [M]. Two additional dials, located near the top right of the camera, allow for the adjustment of shutter speed and aperture.
The D80's new 2.5-inch 230,000-dot high-resolution LCD display is indeed impressive to look at. It boasts an ultra-wide 170 degree viewing angle, allowing for crisp resolution from nearly all directions. This can certainly be helpful when previewing photos, which can now be magnified up to 25 times using the new dedicated zoom buttons.
Adjustments to the camera's menu interface has made it even easier to navigate. There is now a Simple menu option, which is basically a shortened version of the full menu. It contains a few basic parameters that Nikon has selected as being most important. For those who are not yet terribly familiar with this type of camera, the Simple menu can provide an easy and pain-free way to get started. For those of us with more experience, there is a My Menu option that allows you to choose which menu items are displayed (presumably whichever items you adjust most often).
There is also a new retouch menu that allows you to edit your photos right there on the camera. You can remove red-eye, resize and crop the photo, use filter options, and even switch from color to monochrome.
The D80's new 2.5-inch 230,000-dot high-resolution LCD display is indeed impressive to look at. It boasts an ultra-wide 170 degree viewing angle, allowing for crisp resolution from nearly all directions. This can certainly be helpful when previewing photos, which can now be magnified up to 25 times using the new dedicated zoom buttons.
Adjustments to the camera's menu interface has made it even easier to navigate. There is now a Simple menu option, which is basically a shortened version of the full menu. It contains a few basic parameters that Nikon has selected as being most important. For those who are not yet terribly familiar with this type of camera, the Simple menu can provide an easy and pain-free way to get started. For those of us with more experience, there is a My Menu option that allows you to choose which menu items are displayed (presumably whichever items you adjust most often). There is also a new retouch menu that allows you to edit your photos right there on the camera. You can remove red-eye, resize and crop the photo, use filter options, and even switch from color to monochrome.
