66NFocus Point SelectionThe D300 offers a choice of 51focus points that together cover awide area of the frame. The focuspoint can be selected manually,allowing photographs to becomposed with the main subjectpositioned almost anywhere in theframe (single-point and dynamic-area AF), or automatically (auto-area AF; note that manual focuspoint detection is not available when auto-area AF is selected). Toselect the focus point manually:1 Rotate the focus selectorlock to ●.This allows the multi selector tobe used to select the focuspoint.2 Select the focus point.Use the multi selector to selectthe focus point. At defaultsettings, the center focus pointcan be selected by pressing thecenter of the multi selector.The focus selector lock can berotated to the locked (L)position following selection toprevent the selected focuspoint from changing when the multi selector is pressed.AF-area mode selectorFocus selector lock
