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Nikon D850 Focus Point Illumination

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BrianPix

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Does anyone know if Nikon is working on a firmware update for the Nikon D850 focus point illumination brightness? I really struggle finding that little faint red square in my viewfinder compared to the very bright red square in my Nikon D4S viewfinder. I don't have a problem when shooting nature images with it but when I use it to do any indoor event photography or outdoors at night, it becomes a big problem.

 

If Nikon isn't working on a firmware update for this, how do we request it? Kind of odd that nobody else has the same problem here on the forum since it's pretty obvious how dim that red focus square is in the D850 compared to the D4S. Seems like an easy fix in a firmware update.



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Is this of any help, Brian?

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Nikon Shooter, thank you for the suggestion but I already have the focus point illumination in the "On" mode. Even though it's always on, the brightness of the red is still too faint for my liking. It's not nearly as bright as my D4S. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to keep this camera mainly for nature photography.







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