If you’re a user of certain Nikon cameras and want to find a photograph or two from a specific day there is an easy way to do it.

Let’s say you’ve just returned from a photo-filled vacation and want to look for a favorite photo from a specific day of the vacation. You snapped so many photos, however, that previewing all the photos on your camera would not only can take time but battery power as well. One answer is to use the Calendar Playback feature found on certain Nikon cameras such as the D3000 and D5000.

Nikon’s Calendar Playback is a quick way to find a photofrom a specific day.

To start, press the PREVIEW button on the back of your camera. (It’s to the top left of the LCD monitor.) This will display a photo you snapped in the LCD monitor. Then press the THUMBNAIL-PLAYBACK-ZOOM OUT button. (It’s to the left of the LCD monitor next to the big question mark (?) symbol.) Press the button until you see a calendar.

Notice the little thumbnails appearing on the dates you took photos. Press the multi selector to select a specific date on the calendar. Press the THUMBNAIL-PLAYBACK-ZOOM OUT button to display thumbnails of the photos corresponding to that date. These thumbnails will appear on the right side of the LCD monitor (highlighted in yellow in the following photo). Press the up or down multi selector to select the photo you want to preview. Then press the OK button to preview the picture in the LCD monitor.

Thumbnails of the photos corresponding to the date on the calendar

Press the PREVIEW button again if the LCD monitor goes blank.

This is a simple and quick way of finding a photo from a certain date while the memory card is still in the camera.

Written by Scott Slaughter