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Nikon D750 USER GUIDE: Balancing the Shadows, Harnessing the 51-Point Focus Grid, and Crafting Rich Full-Frame Textures in Any Light - Softcover

Hennen, Erich A.

 
9798178696484: Nikon D750 USER GUIDE: Balancing the Shadows, Harnessing the 51-Point Focus Grid, and Crafting Rich Full-Frame Textures in Any Light

Synopsis

The D750 manual is thick enough to stop a door, and most new owners read three pages before giving up and leaving the camera on the green auto icon forever. That's not a failure on their part. Nikon built this camera for people who already knew DSLRs, so the important settings sit behind hold-and-turn combinations nobody discovers by accident. The ISO button, for example, does nothing pressed on its own. You hold it and turn the rear dial at the same time. Release the button first and nothing happens.

This book goes through the camera in the order your hands actually need it, starting at the top with the shutter button and the two dials that run the whole exposure system, then back to live view and the info screens, then into the settings that quietly ruin more beginner photos than bad lighting ever does.

Inside, you'll work through:

  • The two dials that control your entire exposure, and which one does what in which mode
  • ISO and image quality settings, including the exact hold-and-turn combination most people never find on their own
  • Drive modes and mirror up, so a moving subject stops coming back blurry
  • Photo menu fundamentals, file naming, RAW recording, and image area, set up once instead of fought with every session
  • White balance and Picture Control, with the difference between flat, neutral, vivid, and standard actually explained
  • Noise reduction handled separately for RAW, JPEG, and video, since each one wants something different
  • Video picture profiles built flat on purpose, so footage holds up when you grade it later
  • Both card slots configured for overflow, backup, or splitting RAW and JPEG across the two

Every chapter ends with a way to confirm the setting actually took, the number or letter you should be seeing on the screen, and if it's not there, the specific reason why and how to fix it.

Read it start to finish or jump straight to whichever chapter matches today's problem. Each one stands on its own.

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