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Nikon D600 Experience Manual To Operations

Still photography guide to operation and image creation
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  • Page 2 Nikon D600 Experience Nikon D600 Experience The Still Photography Guide to Operation and Image Creation with the Nikon D600 Douglas J. Klostermann Full Stop. good writing for better photography...
  • Page 3 Nikon is a trademark of Nikon Inc. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. The author and the contents of this book are not affiliated with or endorsed by Nikon.
  • Page 4 Nikon D600 Experience CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION......................5 1.1 Take Control of Your Camera ................. 6 1.2 Using This Guide ..................... 7 1.3 Getting Started ...................... 10 2. CAMERA CONTROLS ....................13 3. MENUS and CUSTOM SETTINGS ................27 3.1 Setting Up the D600 ....................27 3.2 Playback Menu ......................
  • Page 5 12. VIDEO - AN INTRODUCTION ................196 13. COMPOSITION....................... 204 14. PHOTOGRAPHY ACCESSORIES................. 212 14.1 Digital SLR Photography Accessories .............. 212 14.2 Nikon D600 Accessories ................... 215 14.3 Digital Photography Books ................216 15. CONCLUSION ......................217 Future Updates to the Text..................217...

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Mode Dial, and DX lens compatibility. All of this has been included in a dSLR body not much larger - and actually lighter - than the D7000. The Nikon D600 is clearly a powerful, advanced tool for digital photography and is fully capable of capturing...

  • Page 7: Take Control Of Your Camera

    Nikon D600 into an image capturing tool that works best for you. Figure 2 - Flower, Cambridge, MA - Autofocus modes, exposure metering mode, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance all considered even in creating this simple image.

  • Page 8: Using This Guide

    Nikon D600 User’s Manual, and other photography books to address questions and problems you encounter. Continue to learn and to photograph often and it should all begin to come together, sometimes slowly and sometimes in rapid bursts of discovery and understanding.

  • Page 9: Camera Controls

    It is also intended to be used in conjunction with and in addition to the camera’s manual, not to completely replace it, so every bit of information in the Nikon D600 User’s Manual will not be repeated here. Among the official manual’s often brief...

  • Page 10: Menus And Custom Settings

    Nikon D600 Experience controls, and displays, as I will use these proper names in this text. Words that are capitalized and bold refer to chapters and sections within this guide, such as Menus and Custom Settings. Turn on the bookmarks or contents navigation panel in your PDF viewer or access the Table of Contents of your e-book reader to quickly navigate to these different sections.

  • Page 11: Shooting Menu

    JPEG, or both combined if you need both types of files. (NEF is the file extension used by Nikon for images in the RAW file format. I will sometimes use just the term “RAW” when discussing the “NEF (RAW)” format.) Remember that this setting can also...
  • Page 12 Nikon D600 Experience Figure 26 - Image Quality and Image Size menus to determine image file settings. Image Size Again, you are putting a lot of effort into taking your images, so set this to Large or L (see Figure 26) - unless you have a specific reason to capture smaller-sized files (both in pixel dimension/ print size and image file size).

  • Page 13: Custom Settings

    Nikon D600 Experience Figure 27 - Simulated D600 Viewfinder view, showing the full size FX image area and the approximate size of the cropped DX image indicated by the inner black line surrounding the AF brackets. Note that the DX image size aligns approximately with the Viewfinder Grid Display lines which can be turned on with Custom Setting d2.

  • Page 14: Autofocusing

    Nikon D600 Experience a3: Focus tracking with lock-on This setting determines how the autofocus system reacts to sudden, dramatic changes in the distance of the subject when you are working in AF-C autofocus mode, or when working in AF-A autofocus mode and Continuous-servo AF is active. (As will be discussed in the Autofocusing chapter, AF-A mode automatically switches between Single-servo AF and Continuous-servo AF based on subject movement, so you don’t...

  • Page 15: Using Autofocus

    Figure 115 - Autofocus controls and other controls of the Nikon D600. The versatile and customizable autofocus system of the D600 is a major part of what makes it such a powerful camera.
  • Page 16 Nikon D600 Experience Modes (such as 9-Point Dynamic-Area AF), and the autofocus related menu and Custom Settings items described at the beginning of this text, which customize how the AF system works. You will select an Autofocus Mode, generally based on whether the...
  • Page 17 Nikon D600 Experience Point AF using the Sub-Command Dial. Have a look at the Control Panel in Figure 115 to see the AF-S indication and the Single-Point AF icon immediately above it. Figure 116 - Additional autofocus controls of the D600.

  • Page 18: Autofocus Af-Area Modes

    Nikon D600 Experience even start to set your AF point as you approach a scene before even bringing your camera to your eye, using your thumb on the Multi Selector. But if you wish, you can start by always using the center point and recomposing before taking the shot. And...
  • Page 19 -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.

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