![]() You'd go into the Custom Setting Menu, the A Autofocus section, and go to AF activation, and turn that off. Now, we will eventually get to these, and talk to these fully as we go through the Menu System, but I know some of you like to jump ahead and make adjustments to your camera right now, so this is how you would do it. I like to let you go in and make these changes as we are walking through the camera. And you're gonna see these shortcuts throughout the class. And in order to do that, you need to go into your Custom Setting Menu. ![]() And if you do want to have that system set up on your camera, there's a couple of changes that you need to make, and the first change is that you need to turn off the Autofocus on the Shutter Release. They would prefer to have a second button, like a back button, activating that focus. Now, some people don't like the fact that it focuses when you press half way down. ![]() You want to take a picture, press all the way down and you will fire a photo, but get very used to that half way position on it. So anytime you want to shoot a photo, just press half way down, and it readies the entire system. It wakes the camera up, if the camera was asleep, and if you were in a different mode, say if you were buried in the menu somewhere, looking up some particular feature, and you just want to shoot a photo, press half way down, it's gonna exit you out of that menu system, get you right into the shooting mode. When we press half way down, it activates the Metering system. We have our Shutter Release for taking photos. First off, let's take a look at the top of the camera. And so it's something that we'll be using quite a bit in the operation of the camera. We'll also use it for selecting different focusing points, as well as a few other things that you'll see as we go through the class. And this is something that we'll use, most likely in the Menu system. In the back of the camera, we have the Multi Selector, a little up/down, left/right mouse navigation device. ![]() Upper-end cameras from Nikon, like this one, will have a Sub-command dial out on the front of the camera, so you have two dials that you can access, you know, pretty much at the same time, and those will be used for changing shutter speeds, apertures, and potentially making other changes throughout the menu or focusing system, and so they're two dials that you're going to be using on a regular basis. And so that's kind of the main go-to dial when you want to make a change on the camer.Ī. The Main Command Dial on a Nikon camera is the thumb dial on the back of the camera. You could always hire a company, or you know, send it off for repair to have it cleaned, but a lot of people can do it themselves. It is possible that you will get dust on the sensor eventually, and if you want to clean it off, I'll have more instructions in the later half of this class about how you can manually do that yourself. Turning the camera on and off, automatically turns on an Image Sensor cleaning device, and so it tries to keep the sensor clean by using a little ultrasonic shake sensor, to keep the dust knocked off. Let's go ahead and get started with some of the basic controls that we're gonna use, wherever we are on the camera, it seems. In here, we are going to be going through all the external controls on the camera, all the buttons and dials, figuring out what they do. ![]()
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