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Nikon D7000 Experience User Manual
Nikon D7000 Experience User Manual

Nikon D7000 Experience User Manual

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  • Page 1 Nikon D7000 Experience...
  • Page 2 Nikon D7000 Experience Nikon D7000 Experience The Still Photographer’s Guide to Operation and Image Creation with the Nikon D7000 Douglas J. Klostermann Full Stop. good writing for better photography...
  • Page 3 Copyright 2011 Douglas J. Klostermann Cover design and photograph by the author. Nikon D7000 Experience The Still Photographer’s Guide to Operation and Image Creation with the Nikon D7000 by: Douglas J. Klostermann ISBN: 978-1-4524-1742-4 Version 3.0 February 2012 Author’s website:...
  • Page 4 Nikon D7000 Experience CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION......................4 2. MENUS and CUSTOM SETTINGS ................9 2.1 Menu Settings - Playback, Shooting ............... 9 2.2 Custom Settings ....................15 2.3 Menu Settings - Setup ................... 23 2.4 My Menu ........................ 27 3. IMAGE FILE FORMATS..................... 28 3.1 JPEG vs.
  • Page 5 Not only is the Nikon D7000 a significant upgrade to the D90, but it also rivals the more expensive semi-professional Nikon D300s in performance, construction, and image quality.
  • Page 6 Nikon D7000 into an image capturing tool that works best for you.
  • Page 7 Nikon D7000 User’s Manual will not be repeated here. Among the official manual’s often brief descriptions and sometimes frustratingly incomplete explanations, there is some very valuable information, as well as the basics for buttons, controls, and how to change all the settings.
  • Page 8 Nikon D7000 Experience memory card. It is best not to use this feature so that you don’t lose track of any of your images. Display Mode This is used to select what information is available to be shown along with your images during playback.
  • Page 9 Nikon D7000 Experience Shooting/Display d1: Beep - This is used to customize the beep volume and sound that the camera makes for various operations. You may prefer to leave this Off if you find the beeps unnecessary or distracting in certain situations.
  • Page 10 Nikon D7000 Experience Figure 3 - Selected AF Point (shown here in yellow and all AF points shown for clarity) positioned over subject’s eye and focus locked with half-press of Shutter-Release Button. Figure 4 - Framing of image recomposed (notice hand at lower right now visible) as...
  • Page 11 Nikon D7000 Experience focus is still locked by holding Shutter-Release Button half pressed. Shutter-Release Button fully pressed to take image. (All AF points shown for clarity.) To see how autofocus point selection works, set the Focus Mode Selector switch, near the base of the lens, to AF.
  • Page 12 Nikon D7000 Experience 5.2 Autofocus Modes The D7000 has three different Autofocus Modes to choose from, typically depending if your subject is still or moving. It also has four different Autofocus Area Modes (or AF- Area Modes, discussed in Section 5.3) to specify how many of the AF points are active and how they follow or track a moving object.
  • Page 13 Nikon D7000 Experience worlds. If you are focusing and then recomposing, as you may often be doing, your movement of the camera may fool it into thinking that the subject is moving and then activate subject tracking AF-C mode, and your resulting focus may not be where you intend it to be or may not be as accurate as it could have been with Single-Servo AF-S mode.
  • Page 14 -Ray M. I found the Nikon manual good for understanding how to set things up but not much on the why - this book really focuses on the WHY. -Benoit A.