New D700 (-:

Ethan

I received my new D700 last night and I'm loving it! Here's my first shot straight out of the camera, no editing with Nikon 50mm. :barb

This is one of my pups.

insanefred

You must have a really bad copy, that is nothing that the camera is capable of. I demand you send it to me at once for servicing

Ethan

insanefred wrote:

You must have a really bad copy, that is nothing that the camera is capable of. I demand you send it to me at once for servicing

Good one! Was shot straight out of the box, no setting changes on the camera. It has a zillion more options than my old camera. I'm looking forward to digging in today.

insanefred

Ethan wrote:

Good one! Was shot straight out of the box, no setting changes on the camera. It has a zillion more options than my old camera. I'm looking forward to digging in today.

What did you have before?

Ethan

insanefred wrote:

What did you have before?

D40x

insanefred

That is one heck of a jump!

Remember to read the manual


Download the D2x modes along with portrait and landscape settings.

get the mb-D10 grip


buy more memory


read the manual again


complain about it over exposing......j/k


Have fun shooting.

rookieshooter

Congrats! I love my D700 too

FWIW, I used Ken Rockwell's user guide and it was well worth the money.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d700.htm

Even now I show people that you can press the little button in the middle of the multi-selector to zoom in on pics and they didn't even know that feature existed.

It's under setup, controls, multi-selector center button, playback, zoom on/off then I use low magnification. Once zoomed in you use the rear dial to go from pic to pic.

ziggy53

Congratulations Ethan.

Ethan

rookieshooter wrote:

Congrats! I love my D700 too

FWIW, I used Ken Rockwell's user guide and it was well worth the money.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d700.htm

Even now I show people that you can press the little button in the middle of the multi-selector to zoom in on pics and they didn't even know that feature existed.

It's under setup, controls, multi-selector center button, playback, zoom on/off then I use low magnification. Once zoomed in you use the rear dial to go from pic to pic.

Thanks for the link! Looks like a great guide for getting up to speed quickly.

Pindy

I also think Thom Hogan's guide is worth every penny. And Thom doesn't use the word "silly" too often.

Congrats!

bloomphotog

So far as overexposing in JPG mode, just enable the Auto D-Lighting. Changes the whole character of the camera, I was impressed.

Ethan

Pindy wrote:

I also think Thom Hogan's guide is worth every penny. And Thom doesn't use the word "silly" too often.

Congrats!

Thanks! I'll take a look at it.

alexf

Congrats! It's a great camera. I recommend Thom Hogan's guide any day.