Just got my 1st DSLR Need help!

[Dylan96]

So my parents got me a d7000 for christmas, I need some help understanding the ISO and other things. Please help!

 

[gw2424]

That is a VERY nice camera to start with. Anyways, I learned by playing around on my dslr; however, that is how I prefer to learn. I would recommend to look up people such as Jared Polin (froknowsphoto) and Matt Granger (ThatNikonGuy). They both have very helpful Youtube pages to learn off of.

Good Luck,
Gabe W

 

[pic_chick]

gw is right those two guys have a lot of great stuff on youtube i also like digtalrev it is more fun but teaches good deal less.

 

[Light Guru]

That is a VERY nice camera to start with. Anyways, I learned by playing around on my dslr; however, that is how I prefer to learn. I would recommend to look up people such as Jared Polin (froknowsphoto) and Matt Granger (ThatNikonGuy). They both have very helpful Youtube pages to learn off of.

Good Luck,
Gabe W

Yup Jared Polin shares a lot of great information about frotography I mean photography.

 

[gw2424]

DigitalRev is great too. Between Kai, Lok, and Alamby they are hard to beat!

 

[SCraig]

Your parents picked one of the finest consumer-grade cameras on the market. In my opinion some of the best tutorials on the internet can be found Here. The second one covers ISO, aperture, and shutter speed.

 

[Bram]

So my parents got me a d7000 for christmas, I need some help understanding the ISO and other things. Please help!

Read the owners manual, many many times.

 

[480sparky41 40]

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[pixmedic]

dont bother with any tutorials, youtube videos, online articles, or mentoring until you have read your cameras manual. twice.
otherwise you spend more time asking WHERE the functions are on your camera than you do on HOW the functions work.

 

[Bram]

Exactly, I got my D7k several months back and yes I am still learning new things. It's an amazing piece of art to be perfectly honest with you, you'll love it.

 

[jwbryson1]

Carlos the cutter! Love it Sparkomatic!

 

[CaliGirl]

I would highly recommend a book called Mastering the D7000. I bought a D3000 a few years ago and bought the equivalent book for my model. It was an invaluable resource for understanding things like ISO, aperture, exposure, etc. and it goes into detail about the features and modes on your exact camera model. Reading that book with my camera in my hand really helped me gain a foundation that I have been able to build on since.

 

[tevo]

Exactly, I got my D7k several months back and yes I am still learning new things. It's an amazing piece of art to be perfectly honest with you, you'll love it.

It's D7000, not D7k . D7k sounds like some Canon fangirl camera

I've had it since a few weeks after its release, and I still learn new things about it today (did you know there's a double exposure mode?? NEAT!). It is an excellent camera and you will enjoy it thoroughly. Just make sure you RTFM at least twice.

 

[unpopular]

RE: ISO - it can be thought of as the sensitivity of the sensor. The higher the number, the more sensitive the sensor is to light (technically inaccurate - but close enough).

Each doubling in ISO is equal to the same effect as if you increased exposure by one "stop", i.e. twice as long shutter speed or one full "stop" of aperture. Aperture used to be controlled directly on the lens, each "stop" being represented by a detent in the aperture ring.

Today aperture is controlled by the camera, and isn't quite as clearly represented. If you have a f4 lens, then one less light would be 5.6, two stop 8.0. The scale is kind of hard to understand, but is equivalent to two or three (depending on settings) "clicks" on the control dial.

But everything is rational, meaning that one can compensate the other. So you can increase ISO to get shorter shutter speed, or more DOF from a smaller aperture, or you can have a longer exposure with a smaller ISO value to decease image noise. It all sounds SUPER complex, and you don't really need to "get it" right away. Just keep learning and shooting paying attention to what the numbers are doing, and it'll make sense.