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October 23, 2017

Nikon D7500 For Dummies

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Your guide to capturing that perfect shot

The Nikon D7500 has created a buzz in the photography community, gaining recognition for its appealing combination of high-end features and compact size. If you’re upgrading your existing dSLR or even purchasing your very first camera, Nikon D7500 For Dummies will help you feel like a pro in no time.

This book highlights the importance of understanding all of the basic features of your new camera, before diving into insights about how to take top-notch photos. You’ll learn about when and how to use flash, understand exposure, and control focus and depth of field. There is also information on taking expert action, close-up, and landscape shots, and how to access and download those photo files. Photography is a great way to capture lifelong memories, and this book makes it easy to get started.   

  • Learn photography terminology
  • Shoot, view, and trim movies
  • Master color controls
  • Discover ways to customize your camera

Don’t just settle for auto mode; take advantage of all the D7500’s amazing features with the help of Nikon D7500 For Dummies!

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About The Author

Julie Adair King is a veteran digital photography educator and the author of numerous bestselling books on digital cameras and photography. Along with all editions of Digital Photography For Dummies, she has written 20 books on Nikon dSLR cameras. Julie's books have sold more than a million copies.

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For times when you don't have access to your copy of Nikon D7500 For Dummies, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference guide. It offers a map to the camera's exterior controls along with basic information about exposure modes and the functions played by each button, dial, and switch.Controls on your Nikon D7500 cameraIf you’re not familiar with the Nikon D7500 camera, here’s a quick guide to its buttons, dials, and other external controls.
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In addition to practical photo-correction tools, the Retouch menu on the Nikon D7500 offers some special-effects tools. You also can add effects as you shoot by using the Effects exposure mode. Applying Retouch menu effects For after-the-shot effects, try these Retouch menu options: Fisheye: Apply this tool to distort the image so that it appears to have been taken with a fisheye lens.
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You can specify how long the camera displays each photo and whether you want to use the Image Review feature, which automatically displays an image for a few seconds after the camera records it to the memory card. Here are the details: Adjust playback display time: By default, the monitor turns off after 10 seconds of inactivity when the camera is in Playback mode.
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For stationary subjects, pair AF-S Focus mode with Single Point AF-area mode, as shown here. To access both settings, press the AF-mode button. Rotate the Main command dial to set the Focus mode, and rotate the Sub-command dial to change the AF-area mode. For stationary subjects, these autofocus settings are recommended.
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Your Nikon D7500 camera organizes pictures automatically into folders that are assigned generic names: 100D7500, 101D7500, and so on. You can also create custom folders.If your card contains multiple folders, tell the camera which folder or folders you want to view via the Playback Folder option on the Playback menu, shown on the left in the figure.
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When you use Live View, either for shooting stills or recording video, the initial focusing setup is the same as for viewfinder photography: First, set the lens and camera to automatic or manual focusing, as outlined at the start of this chapter. Then specify your autofocusing preferences through the Focus mode and AF-area mode settings.
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If you're not familiar with the Nikon D7500 camera, here's a quick guide to its buttons, dials, and other external controls. The lens shown here is the 18–140mm kit lens; other lenses may have different features. See the next section of the Cheat Sheet for information about what the main buttons do.
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By default, picture files include information about camera orientation — that is, whether you held the Nikon D7500 camera in the normal, horizontal position when taking the picture or rotated it to vertical. During playback, the camera reads the orientation data and rotates vertically oriented images so that they appear in the upright position, as shown on the left.
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Calendar display mode on the Nikon D7500, shown in the figure, makes it easy to locate pictures according to the date you shot them. Try it out: Calendar view makes it easy to view all photos shot on a particular day. Press the Zoom Out button or pinch in on the touchscreen as needed to bring up the calendar display.
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Your choice of exposure mode determines how much control you have over picture settings, including options that affect exposure, color, and autofocusing features. Set the exposure mode via the Mode dial shown here. For the most control, switch to P, S, A, or M mode. Exposure Mode Description Auto Completely automatic photography; the camera analyzes the scene and tries to choose settings that produce the best results.
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When shooting most moving subjects, select AF-C for the Focus mode and choose one of the Dynamic Area options for the AF-area mode, as shown. For moving subjects, I combine AF-C Focus mode (continuous autofocusing) with one of the Dynamic Area AF-area settings.The initial focusing process is the same as when you use the AF-S and Single Point autofocusing combo: Choose a focus point, position your subject under that point, and press the shutter button halfway.
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One of the most difficult photo problems to correct in a photo-editing program is known as blown highlights in some circles and clipped highlights in others. Both terms mean that 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 Live View mode, you don't have the AF-A option provided in viewfinder photography — the setting that lets the camera decide whether to lock focus immediately after focus is achieved or to continuously adjust focus as needed to track a moving subject. Instead, you specify which autofocus operation you prefer by choosing one of two Focus modes: AF-S (single-servo autofocus): The camera locks focus when you press the shutter button halfway or tap the touchscreen, if the Touch Shutter is enabled.
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Your Nikon D7500 camera is equipped with a feature that enables you to connect it to an HDMI television or monitor so that when you set the camera to playback mode, you can view your pictures on a large screen. If the camera is in Live View mode, the preview appears on the TV.To connect the two devices, you need a Type C mini-pin HD cable.
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The Slide Show feature on the Nikon D7500 camera automatically displays photos and movies one by one. Which files are included in the show depend on the setting of the Playback Folder option on the Playback menu. Additionally, any pictures that you hid through the Hide Image function do not appear.Follow these steps to present a slide show: Display the Playback menu and select Slide Show, as shown on the left.
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The Trim tool enables you to crop right in the Nikon D7500 camera. To crop a photo means to trim away some of its perimeter. Cropping can often improve an image, as illustrated by this figure. When shooting this scene, the photographer couldn't get close enough to fill the frame with the ducks, as shown on the left.
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Some subjects confuse even the most sophisticated autofocusing systems, causing the autofocus motor to spend a long time hunting for a focus point. Animals behind fences, reflective objects, water, and low-contrast subjects are just some of the autofocus troublemakers. Autofocus systems also struggle in dim lighting, although that difficulty is often offset by the AF-assist lamp, which shoots out a beam of light to help the camera find its focusing target.
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Several picture-taking settings can affect exposure and color in your images. Of course, it's best to nail down these characteristics as you shoot, but if things go awry, you can make minor modifications through these Retouch tools on the Nikon D7500: D-Lighting: Active D-Lighting is an exposure setting that brightens too-dark shadows in a way that leaves highlight details intact.
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Assuming that your lens supports both manual and autofocusing with the Nikon D7500 camera, you need to take two steps to specify the focusing method you prefer: Set the lens to automatic or manual focusing. Most lenses have a switch with two settings: A (or AF) for autofocusing and M (or MF) for manual focusing, as shown here.
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When you use autofocusing during viewfinder photography, pressing the shutter button halfway kick-starts the autofocus system. Whether the camera locks focus at that point or adjusts focus until you press the button the rest of the way depends on the Focus mode.You can control this aspect of the autofocus system in all exposure modes except the Miniature and Selective Color Effects modes.
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The following Retouch menu tools on the Nikon D7500 camera enable you to level a tilting horizon line, eliminate lens distortion, and correct perspective. Leveling the horizon (Straighten tool): After you select the Straighten tool, an alignment grid appears over your photo, as shown. The yellow marker under the scale at the bottom of the screen shows the direction and amount of rotation.
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Here's a cool feature available only during Live View shooting on your Nikon D7500 camera You can magnify the display so that you can get a better view of whether your subject is in focus. This tool is available both during autofocusing and manual focusing.To zoom the display, press the Zoom In button. Each press gives you a closer look at the subject.
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On your Nikon D7500 camera, you can magnify a photo that you have displayed in single-frame view. Single-frame view is shown on the left in the following figure; the magnified image is shown on the right. Here's how: Press the Zoom In button or pinch out on the touchscreen to magnify an image. Magnify the image.
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Getting familiar with the concept of depth of field is one of the biggest steps you can take to becoming a better photographer. Here's a quick recap: Depth of field refers to the distance over which objects in a photograph appear acceptably sharp. With a shallow depth of field, your subject is sharply focused, but objects behind and in front of it appear blurry.
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It's great to have a map to the buttons and controls on your camera, but it's not a lot of help if you can't remember which button to press when (and why). So here's a look at the functions of the most important controls.Some controls have additional functions during certain operations, but the table lists the ones you'll use most often.
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For times when you don't have access to your copy of Nikon D7500 For Dummies, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference guide. It offers a map to the camera's exterior controls along with basic information about exposure modes and the functions played by each button, dial, and switch.Controls on your Nikon D7500 cameraIf you’re not familiar with the Nikon D7500 camera, here’s a quick guide to its buttons, dials, and other external controls.
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Seeing your pictures is just the start of the things you can do when you switch your Nikon D7500 camera to playback mode. The following steps provide a quick introduction to viewing your photos. Press the Playback button to put the camera in playback mode.The figure shows you where to find the button. By default, you see a single photo along with some picture information, as shown in the figure.
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Instead of displaying each photo or movie one at a time on your Nikon D7500 camera, you can display 4 or 9 thumbnails, as shown in the following figure, or even a whopping 72 thumbnails. You can view multiple image thumbnails at a time.Here's how Thumbnail display works: Display thumbnails. If the touchscreen is enabled, pinch in.
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Through the Retouch menu on your Nikon D7500, you can do simple photo editing in the camera. It's a no-risk proposition: The camera doesn't alter your original file; it makes a copy and applies changes to the copy only. Here are the basics you need to know to get started: Accessing retouching tools: You can take two routes: Retouch menu: Display the Retouch menu, shown on the left.
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