Complete D200 Guide Errata Page The following are the known errata for the initial version of the book, as of 1/29/2008. Errata appear for the latest edition first, oldest edition last.

The supplement mentioned for the WT-3 has not been completed (and there's no ETA on that). When it is, it will be announced on the front of the Web site and made available for free here. No need to email me about it.

Version 1.0.6

p. 99 "into on" should just be "into".

p. 108 "next to the door" comment needs revising; the light isn't next to the door, it's closer to the Direction pad

p. 132 Step 6 lists the Large JPEG size as 2872x2592; it should be 3872x2592).

p. 144 "G = 0.2R..." should be "Y = 0.2R..."

p. 291 The table entry for Portrait settings should use the term Less Contrast, not Medium Low.

p. 311 With AI and AI-S lenses the Shutter-priority and Program exposure modes are unavailable, not the Aperture-priority and Manual exposure modes as listed in the table.

p. 322 The ** footnote should be a little more elaborate. In Single Servo AF the camera does report the AF sensor being used, but not in Continuous Servo.

p. 342 Last bullet point: it appears that current firmware doesn't trigger this problem any more. It may have been fixed.

p. 461 Flash exposure compensation via the button does alter the Commander settings

p. 477 "Nikon film body" should be "Nikon body"

p 494 FP may also appear with SB-600 or SB-R200

p 500 First footnote should be 1, not *

p 504 "it's" should be "its"

p 514 "line-of-site" should be "line-of-sight"

p 514 Note that multiple flashes in one group should be all at the same distance, as they preflash together and are metered together. If they are at different distances, one of them will either underexpose or overexpose

p 516 You have to press the ENTER button to save Commander Mode settings

p 525 + 533 You can control the SB-600 in 1/3 increment steps

p 538 If the standby custom setting is on Auto (the default), the flash turns off with the meter

When Long Exp NR is turned on and you're shooting long exposures, the camera will say JOB NR and be inoperable after the shot for an additional length of time equal to the original exposure (if the exposure time is short; for really long exposures it appears that the D200 uses a different procedure and doesn't need to take an equal length noise measurement).

I've had reports that the D200 2.0 firmware no longer allows AF with third party lens/TC combinations that go beyond f/8 (it did previously, though the AF was sometimes erratic).

One reader reports that the trap focus discussion should mention that CSM#A2 should be set to Focus. My steps assumed the defaults.

Camera Control Pro saves Shooting setting banks, but not Custom setting banks.

TTL BL is cancelled only by setting spot metering, not Manual exposure mode.

TTL FP only works with external flashes that support it, not with the internal flash.

Version 1.0.4

p. 35 "once you've press the shutter" should be "once you've pressed the shutter..."

p. 39 footnote "value; or: the" should probably be "value; or, the"

p. 41 "stops and term EV" should be "stops and the term EV..."

p. 131 "JPEG files can be read by a wide variety of programs, and is" should be "JPEG files can be read by a wide variety of programs, and are..."

p. 138 There's a bad break that make people read "JPEG Fine Basic" and think that's wrong. No, it's right, it's JPEG Fine, Basic Compression..."

p. 179 "from the Tabs are" should be "from the Tabs area" and "you use again use" should be "you again use..."

p. 195 "supports basic four levels" should be "supports four basic levels..."

p. 206 "AH-6" should be "EH-6"

p. 208 "lens strap attachment point" should be "camera strap attachment point..."

p. 220 "the gray blob will placed" should be "the gray blob will be placed"

p. 228 "NEF data stays in 12-bit" should probably be "NEF data stays in the 12-bit..."

p. 243 "remains overridden my that same" should be "remains overridden by that same..."

p. 244 The EV20 entry should read f/16 at 1/4000, not f/16 at 1/2000

p. 247 "but it always is always active" should be "but it is always active..."

p. 264 "works only some" should be "works on only some..."

p. 296 "if think about" should be "if you think about..."

p. 310 The angle of view table has errors in it. The correct table would be:

p. 302 and 565 The Optimize Image settings always require you to select the Done option before they are changed. While not an error in the Guide, I don't emphasize this enough.

p. 311 With AI and AI-S lenses the Shutter-priority and Program exposure modes are unavailable, not the Aperture-priority and Manual exposure modes as listed in the table.

p. 338 Continuous low goes from 1 to 4 fps, not 1 to 5 fps.

In making a change to the flash section, I managed to add an error while taking out an error: AA flash mode is supported by the D200 with a SB-800, but not on the SB-28DX or SB-80DX.

p. 593 "It's a simple as" should be "It's as simple as..."

p. 594 The references to Secure Digital cards should be CompactFlash card references (ah the joys of trying to keep matching sections in multiple books the same)

p. 619 "you want assign the images" should be "you want to assign the images..."

p. 716 The EN-EL3 reference should be EN-EL3e.

p. 717 "and is designed to EN-EL3" should be "and is designed for the EN-EL3..." and "this small device is slides" should be "this small device slides..."

Initial Production Version 1.0.3

In the section on Auto ISO I mention that this function is ignored when flash is active. Actually, it isn't, though the way the camera performs is confusing. Auto ISO still activates with flash, but only if you have hit the range limit for the flash. In other words, if the camera thinks that the flash can give enough light for the subject, the ISO isn't boosted. But if the camera thinks that the flash doesn't have enough power to light the subject, ISO will be boosted if Auto ISO is On. This is easier to see and anticipate with an external flash on the camera that has a Distance Range indicator, as does the SB-800. Once your subject is beyond the maximum distance indicated by the SB-800, Auto ISO kicks in. With the internal flash, you'll need to memorize the table on page 505 in order to be able to anticipate the Auto ISO changes with flash active (yuck).

p. 6: "On to more a more" should be "On to a more..."

p. 25: "than you may be looking" should be "than what you may be looking..."

p. 25: "is a different" should be "is different..."

p. 30: "aligned to image" should be "aligned to the image..."

p. 30: "see the viewfinder" should be "see in the viewfinder..."

p. 36 "once you've press the shutter" should be "once you've pressed the shutter..."

p 38: "The flash goes off" should probably be "The flash fires...". Ditto the second "goes off" reference: should be "fires..."

p. 38: "completed opened" should be "completely open..."

p. 39: "one last at" should be "one last look at..."

p. 40 footnote "value; or: the" should probably be "value; or, the"

p. 40: "either 1/3, 1/2, or 1 stop in between" should be "either 1/3 or 1/2 stop in between..." A better way to say it might be "The D200 allows you to set these (one stop differences) plus in-between values, which can be controlled in 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments."

p. 41: Technically, the line "because we couldn't differentiate the number of light photons getting in with those that were already there" isn't accurate. Photons don't lay around in the sensor's light buckets. Light photons get converted into electrons as the sensor "captures" them. So it is electrons that might already be present that get confused with ones just being made from the light conversion.

p. 41: "data we recorded" should be "data we record..."

p. 42 "stops and term EV" should be "stops and the term EV..."

p. 42: "specific combination of aperture and shutter speed" should be "specific combination of aperture, shutter speed, and sensitivity (ISO)."

p. 46: "all things equal" should be "all other things being equal..."

p. 46: "would be have a" should be "would have a..."

p. 47: "same matrix metering" should be "same matrix metering hardware..." (the software has changed a bit since the D70)

p. 47: "rather consistent UI" probably should be "rather consistent UIs."

p. 48: "at first guess" should probably be simplified to "think."

p. 52: There is some contention about how to maximize inkjet results. More than one reader has taken me to task for my 240 dpi reference. Some believe that 288 dpi is the "magic" printing number for Epson inkjets, probably due to the 5x5 nozzle matrix (1440 / 288 = 5). Personally, on every Epson I've tried to date (which admittedly isn't every model), I'm still comfortable with my remark: 240 dpi seems to be a practical boundary. Below that you begin to see obvious changes to the print, above that it is very difficult to see any differences. It very well may be that 288 dpi is the point of maximized output, but most users will be hard pressed to see any difference between 288 and 240 dpi. Another aspect discussed in the same paragraph perhaps needs better wording, too: the print mechanism moves at 1/720", but intermediary nozzles on the Epson inkjets lay intermediate data (which is how they claim 1440 dpi). On the consumer inkjets, the carriage movement isn't guaranteed (one of the reasons the 4800 and larger models cost more is the factory testing and adjustments, plus the during print monitoring these devices do keeps the carriage movement in tight spec).

p. 62: "EN-EL3a and charger" should be "EN-EL3e and charger..."

p. 67: Missing right paren after "page <80>"

p. 74: "D200 images show more anti-aliasing" should be "D200 images show more aliasing..."

p. 77: Remove right paren after "greyscale chart."

p. 80: "Slightly exaggerating noise" should probably be ", which slightly exaggerates noise..."

p. 84: It's Bjorn Rorslett, not Rosslett.

p. 86: "that in light" should be "that light..." Even then the sentence has a grammatical problem, in that the light doesn't produce the noise, the sensor's response to the light produces the noise.

p. 88: Some style manuals say that the paren-period-paren construct at the end of that first paragraph shouldn't be used. If you follow that practice, put a semicolon between the two parenthetical thoughts and remove the inner parens.

p. 102: The note on this page about which battery is used first is correct only if you put in two fully charged batteries. Amazingly, the camera is smarter than I am: if you put a partially charged battery into one of the slots and a fully charged battery in the other, the camera will start by using the partially charged battery!

p. 103: Someone pointed out that 5 seconds isn't a possible image review time setting. True, but I was trying to say "cut your image review time in half," which you can do by means other than the Monitor Off Custom Setting (e.g., pressing the shutter release partway).

p. 108: To be clear, the MH-19 charges batteries sequentially. In other words, you hook up two batteries and it charges first one, then the other. It is indeed less expensive to simply buy another MH-18 charger, but I find this to be a problem while traveling: not only is it yet another thing to carry, but now you're taking up two AC plugs to charge batteries.

p. 112: "always to see" should be "always easy to see..."

p. 115: "'ole" should probably be "ol'...", or without the pretension but with full cliche: "old..."

p. 124: Awkward construct in the footnote. Can be simplified to "the information being tracked is lost."

p. 147: The first two NEF links are now inactive--the accounts on those servers seem to have been closed recently.

p. 156: The thumbnail is BASIC, not NORMAL in quality.

p. 156: The Qual button is on the top of the camera, not the back.

p. 157: "4288x2848 image size" should be "3872x2592..."

p. 158: Note also that the Shots Remaining counter will sometimes go to 0 and the card indicator show FULL while a Compressed NEF image is being written to a nearly full card. After completing the write to card, the counter will show 0 or 1 (and sometimes 2) and allow you to shoot another image. Seems strange to be able to shoot another shot with the counter on 0, but it is possible under some circumstances with Compressed NEF.

p. 159: The EXIF 2.2 specification is now at http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF.

p. 163: The DCF link has been removed. A possible replacement (but it only describes DCF 1.0) is at http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF.

p. 183: Apparently you can take an image Dust Off Ref Photo with JPEG set on the D200. I haven't yet checked to see whether this can be applied against a NEF image in Capture, however.

p. 200: The +/- notations are backwards. The default position has - at the 12 O'clock position and + at the 6 O'clock position. I may have been standing on my head when I wrote what's in the book.

p. 210 "lens strap attachment point" should be "camera strap attachment point..."

p. 242: "US Southeast" should be "US Southwest..." (It's my native Californian view of the four corners entering into the equation, I guess. I did write that statement when I was West of Southern Utah, at least ;~)

p. 243, footnote: "program is shake" should be "program if shake..."

p. 245: "overridden my the same" should be "overridden by the same..."

p. 261: I probably meant "ISO 400 properly exposed is an obviously better choice than ISO 200 underexposed." But the statement as written in the eBook is also accurate.

p. 263: "and product noise" should be "and produce noise..."

p. 270: Two disconnected thoughts on page 270 managed to confuse at least one reader. In the third paragraph under Exposure Compensation there are two sentences (first begins "As Nikon notes..." while the second begins "Without exposure compensation..."). I did not mean to suggest that these are the same thing (they're actually two different approaches to exposure compensation). At least one person read the second sentence as "use -0.7 in white snow." Nope. Don't try to connect the values from the first sentence to the situation in the second. The first sentence refers to subject brightness relative to background, the second sentence refers to brightness of subject, period. Those are simply two different situations in which you would use exposure compensation.

p. 306: One reader was caught by a statement. The statement in question starts "Indeed, the resulting image on a D200 is not different than if you took a picture with a 35mm body..." This statement is true. But the confusion is that some think that the depth of field might not be the same, since I describe the differences in depth of field elsewhere in the work. Actually, if you cropped the 35mm image to the APS size and then printed both the 35mm image and D200 image, they'd have the same DOF using the Zeiss calculation method I outline. That's because Zeiss' formula uses the diagonal of the "capture" area, and if you're cropping the 35mm version you have to change the capture area value.

p. 313: With AI and AI-S lenses the Shutter-priority and Program exposure modes are unavailable, not the Aperture-priority and Manual exposure modes as listed in the table.

p. 317: "CAM-1100" should be "CAM-1000..."

p. 323: "Group Dynamic AF overrides the Wide Area setting for CSM #A3, if chosen" is a slightly confusing (at least one person wondered what the "if chosen" referred to). Put another way: if you set CSM #A3 to Wide Area and then use Dynamic Area AF with Closest Subject, the camera uses all 11 focus points to figure out where the closest subject is, not seven.

p. 325: One person wrote that they thought that step 5 should read "Pre-focus the lens to a particular distance using the AF-ON button." You certainly can do it that way, but you can also just manually focus the lens, which is why I wrote it the way I did.

p. 348: "360 intervals" should be "3600 intervals..."

p. 429: Both Auto and On are listed as the default setting. Auto is the default.

p. 488: the quote should be moved in the "old background dim" statement. It should read "Thus, the old 'background dim, subject dim' result..."

p. 521/528: Someone caught that I was using different ISO values in the specifications for the SB-600 and SB-800 flashes, which makes the SB-600 look like a more powerful flash than the SB-800. It isn't. The SB-600 GN was given at ISO 200 and the SB-800 was given at ISO 100 in the specs. The correct ISO 100 GN for the SB-600 is 98 ft (30m) versus 125 ft (38m) for the SB-800.

p. 524: There's an extraneous 1/128 in the last note. Remove it.

p. 543: We've got a lot of eagle-eyed readers, but sometimes I don't agree with their changes. One suggests that the AC power adapter shouldn't be listed as part of the cleaning equipment, since the D200 doesn't require it. True, the D200 doesn't require an AC power adapter to clean, but this is a checklist folks--I do indeed bring an AC adapter with me because it gives me more flexibility when cleaning (what happens if all my batteries are exhausted and on the charger and I want to clean my camera before I go to bed). However, my goal in providing these errata pages is to make my works as dead-on accurate and clear as possible, so I've added this as a potential errata. Season the checklist to your own taste.

p. 543: Likewise on the same page, someone suggests that "back LCDs" must be a remnant from a copy and paste from a D2x book. No, it isn't. The full sentence is "top and back LCDs." The grammatical construct is "look...at the...LCDs." If it were singular it would mean "look at the top [of the camera] and the back LCD."

p. 549: "remove the embedded JPEG" should probably be "extract the embedded JPEG..." as it doesn't actually get taken out of the file, only copied.

p.569 and 570: The two references to the special UV lens Nikon made use different orders ("UV Micro Nikkor 105mm" versus "105mm UV Micro-Nikkor..."). The latter is my preferred style.

p. 587: Remove the bullet that begins "What does the dedicated white balance sensor see..." The D200 doesn't have a dedicated white balance sensor as do the D2hs and D2x.

p. 590: Macintosh users should take note that the CompactFlash card in the camera doesn't show up as a drive if the USB function is set to PTP. It does for Windows.

p. 628: "Feedback from uses" should be "feedback from users..."

p. 709: It appears a lot of Web sites have bit the dust in just the short time since I finished this book. Brian Caldwell's site is no longer active. Try http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm for another panorama site that has links to other useful ones. Likewise, the tutorial at the unimelb site is now at: http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tutorials/360/index.html.

Clarification: The book might seem a little schizophrenic about the sharpening setting to use. On pages 332 and 552 I suggest a setting of None, on page page 550 I say High. My wording may not be clear enough for some. Generally I prefer not to sharpen in camera, if possible, thus I suggest None as the usual setting. However, if you're worried about critically evaluating focus in the field, the small LCD on the camera really requires you to crank up the sharpening level in order to see the exact focus point, so for that I recommend you use Medium High or just High. Note, however, that the High setting will tend to produce Highlight blinking earlier than None, which can be slightly misleading (the increase in local contrast at bright/dark edges is what generates the blinking).

The D200 Checklist.doc file refers to the DR-5 right-angle viewfinder; it should be DR-6.

An interesting side note: you can probably see that the primary errors that crept into this first printing are one of three types: (1) a missing word; (2) an additional unnecessary word; or (3) a wrong word (a typo, but a correctly spelled one ;~). I've been keeping pegs on both the pre-publication reviewers and the post-production errata suppliers and how they catch the various types of errors. It seems that the wrong word error is the easiest seen problem (I received a half dozen reports on the "my" instead of "by" in the D200 eBook, for example). Both missing and additional words get reported less often, but are more common problems in the first published draft. Believe it or not, this observation is applicable to photography, as well. It is usually easy to see something that is wrong (like focus) than it is to see omissions or additions in a scene. For example, how often have you taken a pristine landscape shot and not noticed the discarded beer can in the corner? Or how often have you taken a picture of a flower or insect only to later notice in post processing that a petal or leg was missing? Our brains are set to notice and respond to "wrong" but to ignore "not important additional or missing detail." It doesn't matter much if the grizzly that's charging you is missing a claw. It does matter that there's a grizzly where there shouldn't be one.