The Nikon D3

Nature and wildlife photographer Laurie Excell walks through the key features, functions, and menu options of the Nikon D3. She also shares her recommendations for camera settings and lens selection to capture wildlife in action. <br> <br> This class is perfect for someone who needs to set up their camera or compare features to another camera.

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Laurie Excell

Release Date: 2008-07-18

Lessons

Introduction

<p>The Nikon D3 is Nikon&#039;s newest camera and first with a full frame (FX) sensor</p>

Duration: 4 mins 40 seconds

Display Panel

<p>The display panel is the window to your basic camera settings. You can view your exposure mode, metering mode, aperture and shutter speed, frame count and much more.</p>

Duration: 2 mins 15 seconds

Exposure Mode

<p>Making a choice between Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual exposure modes</p>

Duration: 2 mins 44 seconds

Buttons and Dials

<p>The D3 offers a lot of control over how the camera takes the image. Laurie goes through the buttons and dials for settings like exposure compensation, diopter correction, metering selector, bracketing, and more</p>

Duration: 9 mins 10 seconds

Back of the Camera

<p>Don&#039;t let the crowd of buttons and dials intimidate you. Laurie goes through the functions found at the back of the camera one by one</p>

Duration: 7 mins 28 seconds

Front Controls

<p>Making our way around to the front of the camera &#8211; the shutter release button, subcommand dial, assign function button, and others</p>

Duration: 2 mins 37 seconds

Setup Menu

<p>Basic camera settings such as date and time, image rotation, firmware version, virtual horizon and more&amp;amp;amp;acirc;&amp;amp;amp;brvbar;</p>

Duration: 11 mins 53 seconds

Playback Menu

<p>The Playback menu contains the options for adjusting playback settings and managing photos</p>

Duration: 7 mins 41 seconds

Shooting Menu

<p>The Shooting Menu covers folder selection and naming, image quality, White Balance, Color Space, Picture Control, etc&#8230;</p>

Duration: 22 mins 52 seconds

Custom Setting Menu

<p>Custom settings allow you to personalize your camera to your own shooting style. This lesson focuses mainly on the autofocus settings</p>

Duration: 10 mins 45 seconds

Custom Setting Menu Continued

<p>Further exploring the custom settings menu for setting options in focus, exposure, ISO and much more</p>

Duration: 16 mins 18 seconds

Custom Setting Menu Conclusion

<p>Controlling your flash and programming buttons for custom control</p>

Duration: 14 mins 23 seconds

Basic Camera Settings

<p>Laurie explains her basic settings and why she chooses them as well as covering lens selection</p>

Duration: 13 mins 13 seconds

Course Conclusion

<p>Hope you learned a lot. Be sure to learn more from Laurie Excell at her site and Kelby Media sites</p>

Duration: 0 mins 56 seconds