Nikon D80 User Manual

D80 Quick Reference Sheet

(Adapted from Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D80)

Front View

1. Focus Mode Selector switch

2. Lens Release button

3. Infrared receiver

4. Self-Timer, Autofocus Assist, Red-eye
Reduction lamp

5. Depth of Field Preview button

6. FUNC (user-assignable) button

7. Front Command dial(s) (called sub­command dials in Nikon manuals)

8. Shutter release(s)

9. Vertical Shutter Release Lock lever

10. MB-D80 Mounting wheel

11. Lens Alignment mark

12. Lens Strap attachment points

Top View

13. Metering Method button (doubles as
Format button)

14. Exposure Compensation button
(doubles as Reset button)

15. Flash hot shoe (under removable
plastic protector)

16. Power switch (extreme position is LCD
illumination)

17. Top LCD Display panel

1

18. Focal Plane

indicator φ

19. Exposure Mode dial (Mode dial in
Nikon manual)

20. Frame Advance button

21. AF button

1

What’s a focal plane? It’s the point at which the image is focused (i.e. the surface plane of the sensor for a D80 or the surface plane of the film for a 35mm

film camera). In close up (macro) work, it’s sometimes necessary to measure distances from the focal plane, thus the mark.

Back View

22. Delete button (doubles as Format
button)

23. Color LCD display

24. Viewfinder eyepiece

25. Diopter Adjustment knob

26. AE-L/AF-L button(s)

27. Rear Command dial(s) (main command
dial in Nikon manuals)

28. Autofocus Area Direction pad (doubles
as Autofocus Sensor selector and
Direction pad for the menu system)

29. Direction Pad Lock lever

30. Playback button

31. MENU button

32. Thumbnail button (doubles as Zoom
Out and ISO button)

33. Protect button (doubles as Help and
WB button)

34. Zoom In button (doubles as QUAL
button)

35. OK button

36. Secure Digital Card Access lamp

37. MB-D80 Battery Compartment Door
latch

Side View

38. Secure Digital Card Access Door (door
slides towards back of camera—two
green arrows—and then springs to
open position shown)

39. Flash Release button; doubles as Flash
Options button (Flash Sync Mode in
Nikon manual) and Flash Exposure
Compensation button

40. Bracketing button

41. Wired remote connector (under bottom
rubber flap)

42. Video Out connector (under top rubber
flap)

43. DC In connector (under top rubber
flap)

44. USB connector (under top rubber flap)