Hello all again.
I purchased D7000 (kit), 70-300 after your advices and I'm loving my first DSLR. I will need to get prime lens, maybe 35 or 50 1.8 (leaning toward 50 because of cheaper price)
I have few newbie questions I would like to ask you. Bit lengthy but hope to get your advices again.
1. I want to learn D7000 so I'm ONLY using "M" mode to shoot all my pictures and have taken several hundred pictures so far. Someone on Youtube suggested I should pay attention to meter (on viewfinder, that - 0 + sign) and adjust my shutter speed, Aperture and ISO accordingly. I've been following this guide and pictures turn out good so far. Should I keep follow this guideline to take picture or try to remember what shutter speed, aperture, ISO I need to use depending on different condition? Ken Rockwell suggested using "P" mode only, no matter what people say.
2. I'm worried about dust getting inside of camera body while I change lenses. What cleaning kit do you suggest? Also, D7000 has cleaning option in menu (Menu>Setup>Clean Image sensor). How often I need to clean it (I'm bit worried it might damage with frequent use)?
3. How do I set Infinite focus on Kit 18-105 lens? my 70-300 has infinite focus sign (
) but kit lens doesn't. ( I want to try BULB mode and want to set to infinite focus on kit lens but...)
4. Sometimes when I focus something that's close to each other but in different depth, I want to adjust focus manually while still in auto focus mode. Doing this will damage lens/camera? While shutter is half-pressed I manually focus by turning focus ring. Or with my 70-300 lens, to speed up focusing, after zooming in I first manually focus then let auto focus to fine focus. Someone said this is good idea while some said it can damage lens and camera so I'm bit confused.
5. Shutter count: D7000 has 150,000 shutter life. Does this mean something needs to be replaced/fixed when its near 150,000 shutter count? At first I didnt know about this and was taking lot of pictures to practice and now this got me little worried. 150,000 is lot of pictures but at my rate, I think I can hit that in 2-3 years.
Thanks for taking time to read my newbie questions and your advices. I'm sure I'll have more newbie questions for you down the road.
I purchased D7000 (kit), 70-300 after your advices and I'm loving my first DSLR. I will need to get prime lens, maybe 35 or 50 1.8 (leaning toward 50 because of cheaper price)
I have few newbie questions I would like to ask you. Bit lengthy but hope to get your advices again.
1. I want to learn D7000 so I'm ONLY using "M" mode to shoot all my pictures and have taken several hundred pictures so far. Someone on Youtube suggested I should pay attention to meter (on viewfinder, that - 0 + sign) and adjust my shutter speed, Aperture and ISO accordingly. I've been following this guide and pictures turn out good so far. Should I keep follow this guideline to take picture or try to remember what shutter speed, aperture, ISO I need to use depending on different condition? Ken Rockwell suggested using "P" mode only, no matter what people say.
2. I'm worried about dust getting inside of camera body while I change lenses. What cleaning kit do you suggest? Also, D7000 has cleaning option in menu (Menu>Setup>Clean Image sensor). How often I need to clean it (I'm bit worried it might damage with frequent use)?
3. How do I set Infinite focus on Kit 18-105 lens? my 70-300 has infinite focus sign (
4. Sometimes when I focus something that's close to each other but in different depth, I want to adjust focus manually while still in auto focus mode. Doing this will damage lens/camera? While shutter is half-pressed I manually focus by turning focus ring. Or with my 70-300 lens, to speed up focusing, after zooming in I first manually focus then let auto focus to fine focus. Someone said this is good idea while some said it can damage lens and camera so I'm bit confused.
5. Shutter count: D7000 has 150,000 shutter life. Does this mean something needs to be replaced/fixed when its near 150,000 shutter count? At first I didnt know about this and was taking lot of pictures to practice and now this got me little worried. 150,000 is lot of pictures but at my rate, I think I can hit that in 2-3 years.
Thanks for taking time to read my newbie questions and your advices. I'm sure I'll have more newbie questions for you down the road.