Nikon D5300 For Dummies
Overview
See the world differently through your new Nikon D5300.
Your new Nikon D5300 digital SLR camera represents something about you. It shows that you want something more than a point-and-shoot camera has to offer. You want to take better photos. You want more control. You don't want to rely on editing to make beautiful photographs. Well, there's good news-you now have the right tool to make that happen! Now you need to learn how to use it. The Nikon D5300 has more features and expanded capabilities, and offers you more options for shooting in different situations. Taking advantage of the full complement of controls and settings gives you the power to capture images in new and imaginative ways.
Nikon D5300 For Dummies is your ultimate guide to using your new DSLR to its utmost capability. Author Julie Adair King brings her vast experience both as a veteran photographer and a photography teacher to you
in this full-color, easy to follow Nikon D5300 guide. Nikon D5300 For Dummies contains more information that you would typically get in a basic photography course, plus information specific to the camera. Over 200 full-color images help illustrate concepts and apply them to the Nikon D5300, making this the ultimate reference for the beginning or veteran photographer.
- Master controls, basic photography principles, and shooting in auto
- Get creative with advanced settings and video functions
- Take charge with manual controls, and understand camera functionality
- Find tips on editing and sharing photos
You have an excellent camera. Don't be content with shooting in auto mode forever! Master your DSLR and learn your way around the settings for the most gorgeous photographs you've ever taken. Nikon D5300 For Dummies is your guide to making it all happen.
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About The Author
Julie Adair King is a veteran photographer, author, and teacher. She is the author of several For Dummies books about Nikon and Canon dSLR cameras, with sales totaling more than 400,000 copies. She is also the bestselling author of all editions of Digital Photography For Dummies.
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With the D5300 camera, Nikon proves once again that you don't have to give an arm and a leg — or strain your back and neck — to enjoy dSLR photography. The D5300 addition to the Nikon family of dSLRs doesn't skimp on power or performance, offering a great set of features to help you take your photography to the next level.
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These D5300 features aren’t the sort that drive people to choose one camera over another, and they may come in handy only on certain occasions. But, they’re still fun to try!
Tag files with GPS data
To enable GPS tagging, select Location Data from the Setup menu and set the Record Location Data option to On, as shown on the right.
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To really take creative control over your Nikon D3300, step up to one of these exposure modes, which enable you to adjust aperture (f-stop) to manipulate depth of field (the distance over which focus appears sharp) and to adjust shutter speed, which determines whether moving objects appear sharply focused or blurry.
To really take creative control over your Nikon D5300 camera, step up to one of these exposure modes, which enable you to adjust aperture (f-stop) to manipulate depth of field (the zone of sharp focus) and to adjust shutter speed to determine whether moving objects appear sharply focused or blurry. You also gain access to some features not available in the fully automatic modes, such as the option to adjust flash power and tweak white balance.
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For photography novices, the Nikon D3300 offers automatic settings that enable point-and-shoot simplicity. The settings listed here help you capture the most common types of subjects; just set the Mode dial to the icon shown in the table. For automatic photography using special effects, set the dial to Effects and rotate the Command dial to select an effect.
For photography novices, the D5300 offers automatic settings that enable point-and-shoot simplicity. The settings listed here help you capture the most common types of subjects; just set the Mode dial to the icon shown in the table.
To access additional Scene modes, set the Mode dial to Scene and rotate the Command dial to select the scene type you want to photograph.
To decide which lens is the best partner for your Nikon D5300 camera, you start by considering these factors for choosing a dSLR camera lens:
Lens compatibility: You can mount a wide range of lenses on your Nikon D5300 camera, but some lenses aren’t fully compatible with all camera features. For example, with some lenses, you can’t take advantage of autofocusing and must focus manually.
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This setting on your Nikon D5300 determines the resolution, or frame size, of your movie, as well as the number of frames per second (fps), both of which affect video quality.
One way to access the setting is via the Movie Settings option on the Shooting menu. After you select Frame Size/Frame Rate, press the Multi Selector right to display the options.
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You can view the current aperture (f-stop) and shutter speed in the Information display and Live View display on your Nikon D5300. (If you don't see this data in Live View mode, press the Info button to cycle through the various display options.)
The settings also appear in the viewfinder.
In the viewfinder, shutter speeds are presented as whole numbers, even if the shutter speed is set to a fraction of a second.
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By default, the Nikon D5300 displays your photo for 4 seconds immediately after it finishes recording the picture data to the memory card. This feature is called Image Review. To take a longer look, press the Playback button to set the camera to playback mode. Your photo then appears for 1 minute, after which the monitor goes to sleep if you don't press any buttons.
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In the P, S, A, or M exposure modes on your Nikon D5300, you have some control over flash power, even if you stick with the default, TTL (through the lens) automatic flash metering. If you want a little more or less flash light than the camera thinks is appropriate, you can adjust the flash output by using Flash Compensation.
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One way to cope with a high-contrast scene is to turn on Active D-Lighting on your Nikon D5300. The D is a reference to dynamic range, the term used to describe the range of brightness values that an imaging device can capture. By turning on this feature, you enable the camera to produce an image with a slightly greater dynamic range than usual.
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In the P, S, and A exposure modes on your Nikon D5300, you have some input over exposure: In P mode, you can rotate the Command dial to choose from different combinations of aperture and shutter speed; in S mode, you can dial in the shutter speed; and in A mode, you can select the aperture setting. But because these are semiautomatic modes, the camera ultimately controls the final exposure.
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Once you are familiar with all the whys and wherefores of the Live View autofocusing options on your Nikon D5300, the following summary of steps outlines choosing the autofocus settings and then actually setting focus:Choose the Focus mode and AF-area mode.You adjust both settings via the control strip that appears when you press the i button.
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Automatic exposure bracketing on your Nikon D5300 records the same image at different exposure settings or Active D-Lighting settings. You also can bracket white balance, creating a series of three images recorded at different white balance settings.
Note the following details about this feature:
Bracketing is available only in the P, S, A, and M exposure modes.
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First up on your list of focus settings to investigate on your Nikon D5300 is the Focus mode. You get three settings for tweaking autofocusing behavior and one option for manual focusing.
Choose the Focus mode via the Information display control strip. Remember: To activate the control strip, just press the i button.
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You can view the current White Balance setting in the Information and Live View displays on your Nikon D5300 digital camera. The icons you see here represent the Auto setting.
In Live View mode, colors in the preview are rendered according to the current White Balance setting. If you're unsure of which setting to use, just experiment: After you adjust the setting, the preview updates to show you the effect on photo colors.
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It’s important for you to become acquainted with your D5300’s most important exposure guide: the exposure meter. The meter tells you whether the camera thinks your picture will be properly exposed at your chosen exposure settings.
However, if and when the meter appears depends on whether you shoot in the M, P, S, or A exposure mode:
M mode: The meter is always present in the Information and Live View displays and also appears in the viewfinder data display
You can see a close-up look at how the meter looks in the viewfinder.
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By using the Focus mode setting for Live View shooting on your Nikon D5300, you specify whether you want the autofocus system to lock focus at the time you press the shutter button halfway or continue to adjust focus until you take the picture or throughout movie recording. Or you can tell the camera that you prefer to focus manually.
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To interpret what the exposure meter tells you on your Nikon D5300, be aware of the current Metering mode, which determines which part of the frame the camera analyzes to calculate exposure. The Metering mode affects the meter reading in M mode as well as the exposure settings that the camera chooses in the fully automatic shooting modes as well as in the P, S, and A modes.
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The most critical audio-recording control on your Nikon D5300 is the Microphone setting, which affects sound volume when you are shooting video with your digital camera. You have three options:
Auto Sensitivity: The camera automatically adjusts the volume according to the level of the ambient noise. This setting is the default.
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You get the best autofocus results if you pair your chosen Focus mode with the most appropriate AF-area mode on your Nikon D5300, because the two settings work in tandem. Here are some combination suggestions:
For still subjects: AF-S and Single Point. You select a focus point, and the camera locks focus on that point when you press the shutter button halfway.
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Technology is grand. It gives you so many options. You can connect your Nikon D5300 to a smart device for wi-fi transfer. To connect your camera to your smart device, take these steps:Open the Setup menu, choose Wi-Fi.Press the Multi Selector right.
Select Network Connection, press the Multi Selector right, and choose Enable.
The ISO setting adjusts the D5300’s sensitivity to light. A higher ISO enables you to use a faster shutter speed or a smaller aperture (higher f-stop number) because less light is needed to expose the image. But a higher ISO also increases the possibility of noise.
You can't adjust ISO in Auto and Auto Flash Off exposure modes; the camera sets the ISO automatically.
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Did you know your Nikon D5300 allows you to create a slide show? Many photo-editing programs offer a tool for creating digital slide shows that can be viewed on a computer or, if copied to a DVD, on a DVD player. You can even add music, captions, graphics, special effects, and the like to jazz up your presentations.
You have three options for erasing pictures from a memory card when it's in your Nikon D5300. One note before you begin: None of the Delete features erase pictures that you protect. To erase protected photos, you must first remove the file protection.
How to delete images one at a time
During picture playback, you can use the Delete button to erase photos and movie files.
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It’s likely that you have already been playing around with the Playback mode on your Nikon D5300. But, there are different options for viewing photos on your digital camera. For normal playback—that is, to see each photo one at a time—take these steps:Press the Playback button.The camera displays the last picture you took, along with some picture data, such as the filename of the photo and the date it was taken.
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In Calendar view, you see a little calendar on the screen of your Nikon D5300. By selecting a date on the calendar, you can quickly navigate to all pictures you shot on that day. A thumbnail-free date indicates that your memory card doesn't contain any photos from that day.
The key to navigating Calendar view is the Zoom Out button:Press the Zoom Out button as needed to cycle through the Thumbnail display modes until you reach Calendar view.
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Once you have taken photos with your Nikon D5300, you will probably want to have a go at them using photo editing software. You can move picture and movie files from your camera to your computer in two ways:
Connect the camera to the computer via a USB cable. The cable you need is supplied in the camera box.
Use a memory card reader.
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Built into ViewNX 2 is a downloading tool you can use with your Nikon D5300 called Nikon Transfer 2. Follow these steps to use it to transfer pictures to your computer:
Attach your camera to the computer or insert a memory card into your card reader.
Depending on what software you have installed on your system, you may see a dialog box asking you how to download your photos.
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When you take a picture, your D5300 can record the image orientation— whether you held the camera normally, creating a horizontally oriented image, or turned the camera on its side to shoot a vertically oriented photo.
During playback, the camera can then read the orientation data and automatically rotate the image so that it appears in the upright position.
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In the past few years, many digital photographers have been experimenting on their Nikons with a technology called HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range — again, dynamic range refers to the spectrum of brightness values that a camera or another imaging device can record.
The idea behind HDR is to capture the same shot multiple times, using different exposure settings for each image.
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You can fine-tune any White Balance setting on your Nikon D5300, except a custom preset that you create by using the PRE option. Make the adjustment as spelled out in these steps:Display the Shooting menu and highlight White Balance.Press OK.
Highlight the White Balance setting you want to adjust, and press the Multi Selector right.
Some subjects confuse even the most sophisticated autofocusing systems, causing the Nikon’s autofocus motor to spend a long time hunting for its focus point. Animals behind fences, reflective objects, water, and low-contrast subjects are just some of the autofocus troublemakers. Autofocus systems struggle in dim lighting, although that difficulty is often offset by the AF-assist lamp, which shoots out light to help the camera find its focusing target.
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Normally, the Nikon D5300 automatically adjusts exposure during movie recording. Exposure is calculated using Matrix (whole frame) metering, regardless of which Metering mode setting is selected. But in a few exposure modes, you can adjust exposure by changing the following settings:
Shutter speed and ISO: Both options are set by the camera by default.
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For manual focusing with the 18–140mm kit lens or a similarly featured Nikon lens, just set the A/M switch to M. The camera automatically changes the Focus mode setting to MF. For other lenses, refer to the lens instruction manual to find out how to set the lens to manual focusing. Then rotate the lens focusing ring to bring the scene into focus.
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Consider the following scenario that calls for a feature on your Nikon D5300 that enables you to create a White Balance preset based on an existing photo. Suppose that you're the marketing manager for a small business and one of your jobs is to shoot portraits of the company bigwigs for the annual report.
You build a small studio just for that purpose, complete with a couple of photography lights and a nice, conservative beige backdrop.
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Before sharing your Nikon D5300 photos, you’ll want to prepare them. Have you ever received an e-mail containing a photo so large that you can't view the whole thing on your monitor without scrolling the e-mail window?
This annoyance occurs because monitors can display only a limited number of pixels. The exact number depends on the screen resolution setting, but suffice it to say that today's digital cameras produce photos with pixel counts in excess of what the monitor can handle.
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By using the NEF (RAW) Processing option on the Retouch menu on your Nikon D5300, you can create a JPEG version of a Raw file right in the camera. Follow these steps:Press the Playback button to switch to playback mode. Display the picture in the full-frame view.If necessary, you can shift from thumbnails view to single-image view by pressing OK.
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In Nikon ViewNX 2, you can convert your D5300 Raw files to the JPEG format or, for top picture quality, to the TIFF format. Follow these steps to try it out:
Open ViewNX 2 and click the thumbnail of the Raw file that you want to process.
You may want to set the program to Image Viewer mode, so that you can see a larger preview of the image.
You can protect picture and movie files from accidental erasure by giving them protected status. After you take this step, the D5300 doesn't allow you to delete the file from your memory card, whether you press the Delete button or use the Delete option on the Playback menu.
You can also use the Protect feature when you want to keep a handful of pictures on the card but delete the rest.
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Using your D5300's Rating feature, you can assign a rating to a picture or movie file. You can even assign a “trash this” rating to flag images that you think you want to delete. Note: It's not polite to assign this rating to a photo that your significant other shot while borrowing your camera.
Rating pictures has several benefits.
You may notice excessive wind noise when filming with your Nikon D5300. Ever seen a newscaster out in the field, carrying a microphone that looks like it's covered with a big piece of foam? That foam thing is a wind filter. It's designed to lessen the sounds that the wind makes when it hits the microphone, allowing the audio you want to come through to do so.
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You may decide that something you captured as video on your Nikon D5300 would make a great still image. You can save a frame of the movie as a still photo. Here's how:
Begin playing your movie.
When you reach the frame you want to capture, press the Multi Selector down to pause playback.
Press theibutton to bring up the Edit Movie screen.
To play your movie, press the Playback button on your Nikon D5300. In single-image playback mode, you can spot a movie file by looking for the little movie camera icon in the upper-left corner. You also can view other movie-related data, including the Frame Size, Frame Rate, and Movie Quality setting. (A star means that you set the Movie Quality option to High.
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The Movie Quality option on your Nikon D5300 determines how much compression is applied to the video file, which in turn affects the bit rate, or how much data is used to represent 1 second of video, measured in Mbps (megabits per second).
You get just two choices: High and Normal (the default). The High setting results in a higher bit rate, which means better quality and larger files.
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Before you go changing the Image Size and Image Quality settings on your Nikon D5300, it’s a good idea to arm yourself with some information to better optimize your photo shoot.
Both options affect picture quality and file size.
Choose a high Image Quality setting — Raw (NEF) or JPEG Fine — and the maximum Image Size setting (Large) for top-quality pictures and large file sizes.
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You can set the white balance with direct measurement on your Nikon D5300. To use this technique, you need a piece of card stock that's either neutral gray or absolute white—not eggshell white, sand white, or any other close-but-not-perfect white. (You can buy reference cards, made just for this purpose, in many camera stores for less than $20.
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You can view the current Flash mode in the Information and Live View displays on your Nikon D5300. (In Live View mode, press the Info button to cycle through the various data-display modes.) The lightning bolt with the eye represents the Red-Eye Reduction flash mode.
In the viewfinder as well as in the lower-right corner of the Live View display, you see a single lightning bolt.
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By using the Release mode setting, you tell your Nikon D5300 whether to capture a single image each time you press the shutter button; to record a burst of photos as long as you hold down the shutter button; or to use Self-Timer mode, which delays the image capture until a few seconds after you press the shutter button.
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Using a fast shutter speed is the key to capturing a blur-free shot of any moving subject with your Nikon D5300, whether it's a flower in the breeze, a spinning Ferris wheel, or, a racing cyclist.
Try the techniques in the following steps to photograph a subject in motion:Set the Mode dial to S (shutter-priority autoexposure).
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Providing specific capture settings for landscape photography using your Nikon D5300 is tricky because there's no single best approach to capturing a beautiful stretch of countryside, a city skyline, or another vast subject.
Most people prefer using a wide-angle lens, for example, to incorporate a large area of the landscape into the scene, but if you're far away from your subject, you may like the results you get from a telephoto or medium-angle lens.
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Video enthusiasts will appreciate the fact that the D5300 enables you to tweak a variety of movie-recording settings. But if you're not up to sorting through those options, just use the default settings. (You can restore the critical defaults by opening the Shooting menu and choosing Reset Shooting Menu.)
Movies are created in the MOV format, which means you can play them on your computer using most video-playback programs.
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Taking a still portrait with your Nikon D5300 means that your subject isn't moving. Assuming that you do have a subject willing to pose, the classic portraiture approach is to keep the subject sharply focused while throwing the background into soft focus. This artistic choice emphasizes the subject and helps diminish the impact of any distracting background objects.
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Your Nikon D5300 can make life easier with the Live View Auto exposure mode. Most aspects of shooting in Live View are the same as for viewfinder photography. Autofocusing, however, works quite differently. Here are the steps to take a picture in the Auto Exposure mode using the default settings:
Set the Mode dial to Auto.
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Your Nikon D5300 makes photo shoots easier by offering point-and-shoot simplicity through its Auto exposure mode. When you use the viewfinder to frame photos, follow these steps to take a picture:Set the Mode dial to Auto.This lets the camera know you want autofocus.
Set the lens focusing method to auto.You make this shift using a switch on the side of the lens.
You can do some limited movie editing on your Nikon D5300. Notice the emphasis: limited editing. You can trim frames from the start of a movie and clip off frames from the end, and that's it.
To eliminate frames from the start of a movie, take these steps:Display your movie in single-image view.Press OK to begin playback.
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To help ensure a proper exposure, your Nikon D5300 continually meters the light until the moment you depress the shutter button fully. In autoexposure modes, it also keeps adjusting exposure settings as needed to maintain a good exposure.
For most situations, this approach works great, resulting in the right settings for the light that’s striking your subject at the moment you capture the image.
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When you set your Nikon D5300’s Focus mode to AF-C (continuous-servo autofocus), focusing is continually adjusted while you hold the shutter button halfway, so the focusing distance may change if the subject moves out of the active autofocus point or you reframe the shot before you take the picture.
The same is true if you use AF-A mode (auto-servo autofocus) and the camera senses movement in front of the lens, in which case it operates the same as just described.
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Continuous Low and Continuous High enable burst mode shooting. That is, your Nikon d5300 records a continuous series of images for as long as you hold down the shutter button, making it easier to capture fast-paced action.
Here’s how the two modes differ:
Continuous Low: The camera can capture as many as 3 frames per second (fps).
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Many photographers use exposure bracketing on the Nikon D5300 to ensure that at least one shot of a subject is properly exposed. Bracketing simply means to shoot the same subject multiple times, slightly varying the exposure settings for each image.
In the P, S, A, and M exposure modes, your camera offers automatic bracketing.
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With Interval Timer Shooting, you can set your Nikon D5300 to automatically release the shutter at intervals ranging from seconds to hours apart. This feature enables you to capture a subject as it changes over time — a technique commonly known as time-lapse photography — without having to stand around pressing the shutter button the whole time.
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You're probably familiar with Self-Timer mode, which delays the shutter release, allowing you to dash into the picture. Here's how it works on the D5300: After you press the shutter button, the AF-assist lamp on the front of the camera starts to blink, and the camera emits a series of beeps. A few seconds later, the camera captures the image.
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Single Frame Release mode captures one picture each time you press the shutter button on your Nikon D5300. It's the default setting for all exposure modes except the Sports and Pet Portrait Scene modes.
Quiet Shutter mode works just like Single Frame mode but makes less noise as it goes about its business. First, the camera disables the beep that it emits by default when it achieves focus.
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Using the wi-fi transfer feature on your Nikon D5300, you have several options for viewing, capturing and transferring photos using whichever device you choose. Here are some ways you can use this feature.
How to view photos on the smart device
After connecting your camera with the device and firing up the WMU app, tap View Photos on the smart device.
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There are multiple Release mode options on your Nikon D5300, some even allowing remote-control access. Two Release mode settings relate to the Nikon ML-L3 wireless remote-control unit. These Release modes work as follows:
Delayed Remote: After you press the shutter-release button on the remote unit, the AF-assist lamp blinks for about two seconds, and then the camera takes the picture.
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In the File Information display mode on your Nikon D5300, the monitor displays certain data. Here's the key to what information appears, starting at the top of the screen and working down:
File number/Total files: The first value indicates the number of the currently displayed photo; the second tells you the total number of files in the same folder.
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The highlights mode on your Nikon D5300 can be helpful. One of the most difficult problems to correct in a photo-editing program is known as blown highlights in some circles and clipped highlights in others.
In plain English, both terms mean that highlights—the brightest areas of the image—are so overexposed that areas that should include a variety of light shades are instead totally white.
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In Overview mode, the playback screen on your Nikon D5300 contains a small image thumbnail along with scads of shooting data—although not quite as much as Shooting Data mode—plus a Brightness histogram.
Just above the histogram, you see the Protected, Retouch, and Send to Smart Device symbols, if you used those features, and the File number/Total files data appears at the upper-right corner of the image thumbnail.
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Press the Multi Selector down to shift from Highlights mode to this mode on your Nikon D5300. You can view your picture in this mode only if you enable it via the Display Mode option on the Playback menu.
Underneath the image thumbnail, you see just a few pieces of data. As with File Information mode, you see the Protected, Retouch, Rating, and Send to Smart Device icons if you used those features.
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Before you can access Shooting Data mode on your 5300, you must enable it via the Playback Display Options setting on the Playback menu. After turning on the option, press the Multi Selector down to shift from RGB Histogram mode to Shooting Data mode.
In this mode, you can view up to four screens of information, which you toggle among by pressing the Multi Selector up and down.
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Along with viewing images one at a time on your 5300, you can display 4 or 9 thumbnails or even a whopping 72 thumbnails. Use these techniques to change to thumbnails view and navigate your photos:
Display thumbnails. Press the Zoom Out button to cycle from single-picture view to 4-thumbnail view; press again to shift to 9-picture view; and press once more to bring up 72 itty-bitty thumbnails.
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Your Nikon D5300 is equipped with a feature that allows you to connect your camera and play your pictures and movies on a television screen. In fact, you have three playback options:
Regular (standard definition) video playback: Haven't made the leap yet to HDTV? No worries: You can set the camera to send a regular standard-definition audio and video signal to the TV.
In single-picture view on your 5300, you can choose from the six display modes. By default, however, only the File Information display is available. To use any other display options, you must enable them from the Playback menu.
To enable a display option, follow these steps:
Open the Playback menu and highlight Playback Display Options.
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After displaying a photo in single-frame view on your Nikon D5300, you can magnify it to get a close-up look at important details, as shown on the right. Here's the scoop:
Zoom in. Press the Zoom In button. You can magnify the image to a maximum of 13 to 33 times its original display size, depending on the picture resolution (Image Size).
You can control a few aspects of your cinematic effort on your Nikon D5300. You can manipulate your video to create a number of effects. The following list runs through these options:
Exposure mode: You can record movies in any exposure mode (Auto, Scene modes, Effects modes, P, M, and so on). As with still photography, your choice determines which camera settings you can access.
There are several Flash modes offered on your Nikon D5300 if you choose to add a flash to better illuminate your picture. Your Nikon D5300 offers the following flash modes:
Auto: The camera decides whether the flash fires. This mode isn't available in the P, S, A, M modes or the Food Scene mode.
Flash Off: In Auto exposure mode or the Scene and Effects modes that permit flash, choose this Flash mode to prevent the flash from firing.
With the D5300 camera, Nikon proves once again that you don't have to give an arm and a leg — or strain your back and neck — to enjoy dSLR photography. The D5300 addition to the Nikon family of dSLRs doesn't skimp on power or performance, offering a great set of features to help you take your photography to the next level.
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A few subjects and shooting situations pose some additional challenges you may not be readily prepared for when shooting with your Nikon D5300. Here's a quick list of ideas for tackling a variety of common tough-shot photos:
Shooting fireworks: First off, use a tripod; fireworks require a long exposure, and trying to handhold your camera simply won't work.
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The Nikon D5300 is an extremely versatile camera and it provides you with all the tools you need for shooting dynamic close-ups. For great close-up shots, try the following techniques:
Check your lens manual to find out its minimum close-focusing distance. How “up close and personal” you can get to your subject depends on your lens, not on the camera body.
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Sometimes, you won’t have ideal conditions for shooting still portraits with your Nikon D5300. Here are some tips to help improve your shot. When flash is unavoidable, try these tricks to produce better results:
Indoors, turn on as many room lights as possible. With more ambient light, you reduce the flash power that's needed to expose the picture.
Your Nikon D5300's Wi-Fi feature enables you to connect your camera wirelessly to certain “smart” devices: specifically, Android and Apple iOS-based phones, tablets, and media players (such as Apple's iPod touch).
Before you can enjoy this function, you must install the Nikon Mobile Wireless Utility app on your device.
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