Hi All,
I am beginner photographer. I bought a Nikon D7200 to start photography as a hobby. I was playing with the settings from watching YT tutorials and videos. I noticed that when I change the some settings in the custom settings menu, a * symbol comes up. For examp., when I tried to change the autofocus settings in AFC priority selection (a1) from Release to Focus the a1 changed from a1* along with changing some other settings to * as well. I just want to know if this addition of * means and if the changed settings will come into effect even if there is *. Can anyone please help me with this? Thanks in addition.
Hi,
as far as I know, in your case, a star only means that a setting has been changed and is different from default/original factory values. Nothing else. It's meant to only be an information. It has no effect on the fact that a setting comes into effect or not. If you change back a setting to its initial value, the star will disappear.
It can also happen that some changes have impacts on several settings and then this put a star on those impacted settings too. I have no example to show it though.
@prg-lagarde Thanks for the clarification. It was really helpful.
I'm sitting here, as it happens, with my wife's D7200, and note that changing AFC to focus priority does not appear to change any other settings by itself, so I'm guessing that if other settings are starred they have been changed independently. The stars are a handy way to know when a setting is not the default, especially if you've been experimenting but forget what you might have changed.
I would be hesitant to set AFC to focus priority if you are using AFC for wildlife, as a momentary loss of focus will prevent the shutter from firing, and might miss something. AF uses the lens's widest aperture, so it's often possible that the camera will consider focus to be lost when the subject is within the lens's working depth of field.
It may make little difference in most cases, but I'd rather risk a blurry shot using shutter priority than risk missing a good one using focus priority, and would leave it on shutter priority. Focus priority makes more sense for the static situations when you'd use AFS.
You probably already know this, but if your copy of the D7200 came without its manual, you can get the full PDF one from the Nikon site.
@formerly-bruto Thank you. I hadn't known most of what you pointed out. Thanks for the help.