Get comfortable with your camera controls and settings by quickly learning how to use the essential features that are present in virtually all Nikon DSLR cameras.
Overview
Syllabus
Welcome
- Learn how to use a Nikon DSLR
- Before watching this course
- Download your user manual
- A guided tour: Common buttons and controls
- Getting ready to shoot
- Powering up your camera
- Reducing camera shake
- Taking some shots in Auto mode and reviewing the images
- Shooting in scene modes
- Setting essential camera menu settings
- Touring the viewfinder
- Shooting in Live View
- Using the Information display screen
- Autofocus basics
- Lens controls and zoom functions
- Shooting with an attached flash
- Image review and playback
- Changing image format and size
- What is Programmed Auto mode?
- Changing ISO
- Adjusting exposure compensation
- Using Flexible Program mode
- Understanding focus points and autofocus
- Choosing the autofocus selection mode
- Focusing manually
- Shooting in Continuous (burst) mode
- Silent shooting
- Using the self-timer
- Using a remote
- Understanding and switching between metering modes
- Exposure lock
- Aperture Priority mode
- Shutter Priority mode
- Manual mode
- Long time-exposure (bulb)
- HDR shooting
- Setting a custom white balance
- Using picture controls
- Using picture effects
- Highlight Tone Priority and dynamic range optimizer
- Shooting panoramas
- Adjusting your LCD
- Cleaning your image sensor
- Customizing your camera menus
- Previewing depth of field
- Adjusting movie record settings
- Choosing the right memory card for recording video
- Attaching an external microphone to the camera
- Recording movies
- Playback of movie files
- Connecting to Wi-Fi to share photos
- Viewing photos with a smartphone
- Controlling your camera with a smartphone
- Next steps
Taught by
Richard Harrington
