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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emoxley" data-source="post: 36711" data-attributes="member: 8006">Hey Claudia. Welcome. I'm fairly new to this forum too.I have to agree with Axeman. Shoot in Auto mode to start with, and pay attention to the settings the camera uses for the pics that you like how they turned out. Read all you can also, especially the camera's manual. If your local community college has a digital photography course at night, take it. I did, and it helped a lot. I knew a good bit about 35mm photography, back in the 70s, but had been away from it for a very long time. Digital is a whole new world, and I felt like I was starting from scratch again. I've had my D7000 for a year now, and love it! I haven't used the Auto mode in 7-8 months. I mostly use Aperture Priority mode. I think most people do too. Learning to use the aperture is one of the most important things to learn and understand, because it can be very confusing. You set this depending on the kind of depth of field (DOF) you want (what's going to be out of focus and in focus). This is where the class will help a lot, and reading books. The basic rules are the same for aperture, whether using digital or film, so even reading an older book will help. I say this because our public library doesn't have many books on digital photography, and your's may not either.The D7000 is one of the best with low light situations, which is where the higher ISO comes into play. If you shoot a picture inside at ISO 6400, without using a flash, the picture should come out very usable. As mentioned, the picture quality may suffer a little, but not that much. The picture should come out better than the same picture taken with other cameras, using the same settings.The higher fps is really most important when photographing sports or moving objects. I keep my camera set on 4 fps about 98% of the time. You can still take just one frame at a time with that setting, once you get the feel of the shutter button. I use the 4 fps even when doing a portrait shot. Then you're more likely to get a good shot, with the person's eyes open.Even though someone called the D300s a Pro camera, it's still a crop sensor camera. I think most pros use full frame cameras (D700, D3, D3s, D3x). Then, you're getting into the really expensive DSLRs. A lot of pros use a D300s as a backup camera, in case something happens to their main camera during a shoot.In case you're not familiar with full frame and crop sensor......A full frame camera has a sensor the same size as a 35mm film's frame.A crop sensor camera has a 1.5 crop factor sensor (smaller than FF). In other words, if you put a 50mm lens on a crop sensor camera, it's not really 50mm. It's equivalent to a 75mm lens. A 100mm lens is equivalent to a 150mm lens. You need to take this into account when buying lenses. On a full frame camera, a 50mm lens is a 50mm lens. A 100mm lens is a 100mm lens.I hope I've helped a little bit. There's a lot to grasp and remember. It will eventually "click", and you'll be busy taking a lot of "good" pictures. If you go with the D7000, this digitutor will help to learn the camera itself. I had to watch it over and over and over, until the info began to stick with me.<a href="http://www.nikondigitutor.com/eng/d7000/index.html" target="_blank">Nikon | Imaging Products | Digitutor | D7000</a>Move your cursor over the list on the left side, and there's videos to watch. It's a lot of help. Good luck with whatever you decide on. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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