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Posted on Mar 30, 2009

Image flicker when viewing pictures in playback mode

Recently I noticed that when viewing indoor and outdoor pictures on my Nikon D60 in playback mode certain features of the picture flicker (highlighting intermittently in black and white) as though the camera is using infra-red sensors to pick up different light aspects of the picture.

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You have the camera in Highlights mode.. while in playback use the up,down,right,left pad press it up and it will go through different displays like what settings you had the camera in when you took the picture then there is a graph screen... after that one is the highlights display which is what you have it on. Push up one more time to have it on regular playback mode. The manual explains this much better than I just did. If you have the manual you should check it out if my instructions dont help.

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