How can I learn how to use my Digital SLR camera properly?
I’ve just got my first digital SLR camera. It’s a Nikon D40. But I don’t just want to use the ‘auto’ settings. What would be the point of that! I want to learn how to use all the manual settings and all that stuff. I am a total beginner. How can I learn about digital SLR photography? Should I enroll in a course? Get a training DVD?
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Just switch it to manual and go out and take photos. Have a go at changing each setting and take the same photo a few times with different settings – you’ll soon work out how to use all the settings to get the best photos (better than using auto). It’s how I did it – i’m too impatient to read a guide, and a course while studying a degree would be too much. Mine seem to come out ok. Good luck and have fun!
either read a guide or just fiddle with it and try it out on different setting and such. i thikn it’s the best way to learn about something you have. you may learn things that are not in the manual!
Use the manual and also log online to the community / blog of Nikon
go to kenrockwell.com
I am not going to give you hints on using your DSLR…instead, I hope you will buy or read photography books! There is no point in knowing all the settings on your dslr if you do not know what each can do! AND a dslr is no different than a film slr…the priciples are the same, so you need to know about f settings, shutter speed, composition, etc…. and all this is the same, no matter what camera you use. If you do not know the difference in pics with an open lens as opposed to a closed down lens, there is no point in learning to use the camera with aperature priority. IF I were serious about photography, and I knew nothing about it, I might take a course in general photography..it would be fun, would teach me WHY I am doing what I do to achieve the results I am looking for. Consider what I have told you. You need to learn the values of Shutter priority, Aperature priority, ISO, white balance, etc. Once you know these, the settings are easy to learn by reading the quicky manual…then practice, practice, practice. Happy New Year.