Assigning the role played by the second SD slot

With the Nikon D7000 you have the ability to have two SD cards in your camera at the same time. The second slot can be assigned to be used for overflow so when the first card get filled it will start placing images in the second card. It can also be assigned as backup so that it will have a duplicate copy of what has been taken on the card in slot one. A third option is to have RAW Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2. I personally choose to use slot #2 for overflow. If you choose the overflow option the remaining photo count that shows on your LCD screen will only show shots remaining on the active card and NOT the total remaining on both cards. To set this up follow the steps below.

Here is how you do it

Go to the SHOOTING MENU which is the second one down on the left and press "OK "
Scroll down to"Roll played by card in slot 2" and press"OK"
Highlight the option you wish to use and press"OK" and you are done

There is a good possibility that you already knew all of this and have it set in your camera. My Tip for this post is to let you know that you have one more option that was not listed and you may not know about that you can do with slot #2. If you like to shoot video and want to increase your chances of not having your video interrupted by running out of memory you have one more option. Take one of the SD cards that you have with the larger memory capacity and place it in slot #2 and go with the additional option that wasn't listed above.

Here is how you do it

Go to the SHOOTING MENU which is the second one down on the left and press "OK"
Scroll down to Movie settings and press "OK"
Next highlight Destination and press"OK" again
Now choose (2) Slot 2 and press "OK" and you are done

By choosing this option, all of your videos will be placed all together on the second card and will make it easier to keep up with. If you noticed it will also show you the amount of recording time that is available on that card. Your movies clips will be of many different lengths of time up to the maximum of 20 minutes and keeping up with how much memory you have used on this card and how much is remaining can be a problem. The answer to this is to just come back to this same location and it will show you just how much recording time is now remaining on this card. Checking the time remaining every once in a while should keep you from running out of memory during an important recording session.

If you take a lot of video and choose this option I would also like to suggest that you add this in your "MY MENU", (covered in Tip #4), so you can easily and quickly check your second card for the remaining record time you have available. I think this is going to be a very helpful tip for those who choose to use it, Jeff