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I thought I saw this one before?
When you have taken a picture, the Nikon want to show you where in the picture it captured to much light. These parts are "overblown".
You only see parts without detail. So not lighter or darker parts when you shoot in JPG. Only when you are shooting RAW (NEF for Nikon) you could get some detail in these places, when using Photoshop RAW, DxO or any other editing program that can handle RAW files.

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