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More from our recent trip to Taronga Zoo

This time a timed image of one of the seals lunging at full stretch towards his target ball hanging from up high.

Lunge

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 1/500 sec at f / 4.5, ISO 125

Look Here

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 1/500 sec at f / 4.5, ISO 100

and who can resist those Meerkats 🙂

I’m Looking at You!

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 195 mm, 1/250 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 100

Week 12

Look!

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 165|260 mm, 1/320|160 sec at f / 5.0|5.6, ISO 400

Waiting

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 95 mm, 1/2000 sec at f / 4.5, ISO 400

I’ve recently upgraded from my Nikon D90 to a Nikon D7000 D-SLR.

Since I’m a compulsive researcher and ADD list maker I’ve done some research on all those little settings which are available in camera and I figured I might just share the result of my detailed study and how I’ve setup my D7000 for daily use (basically all my default settings).

Firstly I should say that I primarily shoot in Aperture priority mode – basically because I like to be able to control my depth of field (or rather the lack of it) – possibly because I’m mostly taking shots of people, portraits or things.

So on to the D7000 camera settings I use…

Playback Menu:
Display mode: Highlights
Image review: On

Shooting Menu:
Image Quality: RAW
Color space: sRGB (default) (Adobe RGB)
Active D-Lighting: Off (Auto)
Log exp. NR: On
High ISO NR: Norm (Off)
ISO: ISO 100, Auto ISO, Max 6400, Min Shutter 1/60 (1/30)
Remote control mode: Quick-response remote

Custom Settings Menu:
a5 Focus point wrap around: On
a7 Built-in AF-assist illuminator: Off
a8 Live view/movie AF: AF-F
c1 Shutter Release Exposure Locking: Off (default)
c2 Meter Off Delay: 8s
c3 Self Timer Delay Setting: 2s
c4 Monitor Off Delay: 20s, 1m, 20s, 10s, 10m
c5 Remote on duration: 5m
d1 Beep: Off (default)
d2 Viewfinder grid display: On
d3 ISO Display: ISO
d6 CL Mode Shooting Speed: 3 fps (default)
d8 File Number Sequence: On (default)
e1 Flash sync speed: 1/250s (Auto FP) (if own external flash) < -- I only do this since I own an SB-600 flash which supports Auto FP high speed sync e3 Flash cntrl for built-in flash: Commander mode: TTL (if own external flash), Channel: 2 < -- I only do this since I own an SB-600 flash which supports wireless mode f1 Illumination Switch: Both f3 Assign FUNC Button: Top Item in My Menu f5 Assign AE-L/AF-L: AF lock only (AE Lock (Hold)?) f8 Slot empty release lock: Lock f9 Reverse indicators: -O+ Setup Menu:
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