Julie Adair King with Doug Sahlin • Take professional-looking photos even if you’re new to digital SLR photography • Use the autoexposure scene modes or take manual control • Download, manage, and share your photos online or in print IN FULL COLOR! Learn to: Nikon ® D5000 Making Everything Easier! ™ Open the book and find: • How to record HD movies • Tips on using flash • Advice on correcting color with white balance • When and how to shoot in the RAW format • Easy-to-understand explanations of technical jargon • Useful features of the Retouch menu • Suggestions for getting the best prints • How to understand picture data Julie Adair King is the author of all editions of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as other guides covering the Nikon D40/D40x, D60, and D90 cameras. Doug Sahlin is the author of Digital Photography Workbook For Dummies and Building Web Sites All-in-One For Dummies. Photography/Techniques/Digital $29.99 US / $35.99 CN / £21.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-53969-9 Go to Dummies.com ® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop the store! Even if your Nikon D5000 is your first digital camera, this fun and friendly full-color guide will boost your confidence in no time! First, you’ll learn to set up your camera and use the many automatic settings. Then you’ll be ready to take creative control; use advanced modes; experiment with lighting, focus, and color; and download your photos for sharing. • Start off easy — get acquainted with all the buttons, dials, and menus, and learn to use the automatic modes • See what you’ve got — position the cool rotating monitor for Live View photography, movie recording, or picture playback • Choose the right settings — find out which options work best for portraits, action shots, close-ups, and more • Secrets exposed — understand the exposure trio of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and learn to use the camera’s advanced exposure features • Show them off — download, organize, and archive your photos, and prepare them for printing, e-mail, or slide shows Learn to use every feature of your D5000, and capture great shots every time! In Color Nikon ® D5000 Nikon ® D5000 King Sahlin est. spine=.67 [...]... 321 xv xvi Nikon D5000 For Dummies Introduction N ikon The name has been associated with top-flight photography equipment for generations And the introduction of the D5000 has only enriched Nikon s well-deserved reputation, offering all the control a die-hard photography enthusiast could want while at the same time providing easy-touse, point-and-shoot features for the beginner In fact, the D5000 offers... point of Nikon D5000 For Dummies: Through this book, you can discover not just what each bell and whistle on your camera does, but also when, where, why, and how to put it to best use Unlike many photography books, this one doesn’t require any previous knowledge of photography or digital imaging to make sense of things, either In classic For Dummies style, everything is explained in easy-to-understand... both Icons and Other Stuff to Note If this isn’t your first For Dummies book, you may be familiar with the large, round icons that decorate its margins If not, here’s your very own icondecoder ring: A Tip icon flags information that will save you time, effort, money, or some other valuable resource, including your sanity 3 4 Nikon D5000 For Dummies When you see this icon, look alive It indicates a potential... prefer to sip while you read, and start exploring the rest of this book Your D5000 is the perfect partner for your photographic journey, and I thank you for allowing me, through this book, to serve as your tour guide 5 6 Nikon D5000 For Dummies Part I Fast Track to Super Snaps M In this part aking sense of all the controls on your D5000 isn’t something you can do in an afternoon — heck, in a week, or... (vibration reduction) lens Figure 1-2 : Press the lens-release button to If you purchased the D5000 camera disengage the lens from the mount kit — that is, the body-and-lens combination put together by Nikon — your lens offers a feature called vibration reduction On Nikon lenses, this feature is indicated by the initials VR in the lens name Vibration reduction attempts to compensate for small amounts of camera... select the command, you’re informed that all images will be deleted, and you’re asked to confirm your decision to format the card Highlight Yes and press the OK button to go forward If you insert a memory card and see the letters For in the viewfinder, you must format the card before you can do anything else You also see a message requesting formatting in the Shooting Information display ✓ Removing... external controls plus a quick introduction to each One note before you move on: Many of the buttons perform multiple functions and so have multiple “official” names The AE-L/AF-L button, for example, is also known as the Protect button In the camera manual, Nikon s instructions refer to these multi-tasking buttons by the name that’s relevant for the current function I think that’s a little confusing,... to fix less-than-perfect images using features found on your camera’s Retouch menu, such as automated red-eye removal You also find out how to apply color effects and perform a few other photoenhancement tricks ✓ Chapter 11, “Ten Special-Purpose Features to Explore on a Rainy Day,” presents information about some camera features that, while not found on most “Top Ten Reasons I Bought My D5000 lists,... specific instructions for performing photo organizing and editing tasks requires that I feature specific software In sections that cover file downloading, archiving, printing, and e-mail sharing, I selected Nikon ViewNX and Nikon Transfer, both of which ship free with your camera and work on both the Windows and Mac operating systems Rest assured, though, that the tools used in ViewNX and Nikon Transfer work... guides you through the process of transferring pictures from your camera memory card to your computer’s hard drive or other storage device Look here, too, for details about using the D5000 s built-in tool for processing files that you shoot in the Nikon RAW format (NEF) Just as important, this chapter explains how to organize and safeguard your photo files ✓ Chapter 9, “Printing and Sharing Your Pictures,” . y48 w2 h17" alt="" Nikon ® D5000 FOR DUMmIES ‰