Nikon D5100: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Rob Sylvan

By Rob Sylvan

Nikon's much-anticipated D5100 digital camera is the following. This new version replaces the preferred D5000 and creates a pleasant bridge among the extra beginner-level D3100 and the high-end D7000.This publication has one objective: to educate D5100 vendors easy methods to make nice photographs utilizing their new Nikon digicam. clients how one can use the D5100 to create the kind of photographs that encouraged them to shop for the digital camera within the first position. every thing within the e-book is in provider of constructing a very good image.Starting with the head ten issues clients want to know in regards to the digital camera, photographer Rob Sylvan conscientiously publications readers throughout the working positive aspects. proprietors get functional suggestion from a professional on which settings to take advantage of while, nice capturing suggestions, or even end-of-chapter assignments.

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Let’s bring the third element into this by changing our ISO by one stop, from 100 to 200. 6 8 11 16 22 SHUTTER SPEED — 1/4000 1/2000 1/1000 1/500 1/250 1/125 Notice that, since we doubled the sensitivity of the sensor, we now require half as much exposure as before. 8 to f/4 because the camera can’t use a shutter speed that is faster than 1/4000 of a second. So why not just use the exposure setting of f/16 at 1/250 of a second? Why bother with all of these reciprocal values when this one setting will give us a properly exposed image?

42 n i K o n d 5 1 0 0 : F r o m s n A P s h o T s T o g r e AT s h o T s At each point of the triangle lies one of the factors of exposure: • ISO: Determines the sensitivity of the camera sensor. ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization, but the acronym is used as a term to describe the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light. The higher the sensitivity, the less light is required for a good exposure. These values are a carryover from the days of traditional color and black and white films.

42 n i K o n d 5 1 0 0 : F r o m s n A P s h o T s T o g r e AT s h o T s At each point of the triangle lies one of the factors of exposure: • ISO: Determines the sensitivity of the camera sensor. ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization, but the acronym is used as a term to describe the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light. The higher the sensitivity, the less light is required for a good exposure. These values are a carryover from the days of traditional color and black and white films.

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