CHEAT CARDS FOR THE Nikon D5200 + Tamron/Sigma All-in-One Lens. $10 Add to Cart. Includes 28 Cheat Cards (in PDF format) for the Nikon D5200 and the Tamron/Sigma All-in-One (18-200mm, 18-250mm, 18-270mm, 16-300mm) lens that can be printed at home or viewed on an iPhone, Android, iPad, Fire or computer. Show Table of Contents. So you have the super-cool Nikon D3100 — how do you make 0 ™! ™ Open the book and find: † A guided tour of your camera’s controls and buttons † Advice on setting flash and picture quality modes † Steps to shooting portraits, landscapes, and sports † The controls that manage aperture, shutter speed, and ISO † Tips for In night portrait mode, the D3100 adjusts the aperture to keep the subject and background well lit while lowering the shutter speed. Slower shutter speeds allow more light to hit the image sensor, effectively brightens the scene and eliminating the “black background” effect when using flash in low light situations. Essential Nikon camera settings: 4. Histogram display. Judging the exposure from the image alone is difficult, so your Nikon has a display mode to help you get it right. These are the D40 settings I like. Pick the ones that work for you. Normal for most uses, Portrait for portraits and vivids for outdoor scenes. A or Fluorescent when indoors under fluorescent light and no flash. CSM/setup Menu. Full (Simple will work fine but will reduce some of your menu options) 200 outside, 400 with flash, 400-800 outdoor Best Camera Setting for Outdoor Portraits: Open up your aperture to anything below an f/4 to blur out the background. Use a variable ND (neutral density) filter on your lens so the photo is not washed out. Use the lowest ISO setting possible, preferably ISO 100. Choose a shutter speed between 200-500. Shoot in RAW settings. Lindsay is a former Sr. Product Manager, Pro DSLR for Nikon. Early in his career Lindsay served as general manager of Nikon House in New York City's Rockefeller Center, where he hosted some of the world's finest photographers as well as photo enthusiasts and photo writers, editors and educators from around the world. The Nikon D3100 produced images of excellent quality during the review period. The out-of-camera JPEGs are soft at the default settings, but switch to raw image capture, and you'll see just how much detail the fourteen-megapixel sensor can record. Along with the increase in the number of pixels came a welcome improvement in high-ISO performance .

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