Nikon D7xxx owners thread

I'm looking at a speedlite for my d7000 so I can have a decent flash and use it off the camera too but am so confused by master, slave, manual only, whether or not a trigger is needed etc. Not sure if I should get a yungnuo 568 ex 2 or something like a sb600 or 700 or a mieke or nissin equivalent. I hear it's good to get high speed strobe.

What do you all use?

I'm very confused by all the offerings.
 
SB600 and I think it's a Nissin DI622 is what I use - both wireless off cam and no complaints so far.
I think the SB700 was designed for the D7000 but the 600 is fine with it
 
Nikon sb700 most of 900 features apart from less power and no external batt pack
Combined with yongnuo 622n triggers it's loads of fun

Recommend reading strobist lighting 101 and Syl Arena's Speedlighters Handbook. Don't be put off that it's Canon, there is a wealth of explaining about all the modes of strobes, how to light etc.

I have just started down this journey myself - those who prefer natural light are missing a whole world of creativity

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Daylight shot - lit with tungsten filter to match evening sunlight
 
I have been experimenting with back button focusing by changing my "AEL & AFL" button to be focus on - so far so good…
but I have a Nikon grip, and the grip button doesn't change and when in portrait mode the grip buttons happen as normal (i.e shutter half press gives focus) - how do I change the behaviour of the grip?
 
stand down - there is an extra menu item I hadn't clocked. F10 for MDB11 AFE/L button
Sorry
 
Morning all I have just brought a D7000 waiting for it to arrive why do we not have post on Sundays or bank holidays

I'm upstanding from a D3100 which I will keep as a back up.

I want to get some spare batteries for it are any of the third party ones worth looking at? Also what's the difference coded and de coded batteries?

I'm sure I'll have lots of questions when it arrives.

Hoping it works well with my nikon 18-55 afs, tamron 18-200, nikon 70-390vr and sigma 10-20 ham lenses
 
I have an ex-pro battery from Amazon and it's fine.

Your lenses will be fine - they're pretty much what I have/had
 
I have used a couple of third party batteries in mine. They work fine until you try to use them in a grip and then you run in to problems. They give false reports of flat batteries if used in a grip but they work ok if used in the body. I had a very similar problem with my old D90 and grip with third party batteries.
As soon as I put an original Nikon battery in the grip it works 100%
 
D7000 owners. I was making tweaks with my menu system (meddling) and I have lost the facility to centralise my focus point by pressing the centre "OK" button. Can anyone guide me how to restore this function please.
 
metroman said:
D7000 owners. I was making tweaks with my menu system (meddling) and I have lost the facility to centralise my focus point by pressing the centre "OK" button. Can anyone guide me how to restore this function please.
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Have you got the toggle on the back above the info button set to the dot and not the L as this stops you from moving the focus point?
 
metroman said:
D7000 owners. I was making tweaks with my menu system (meddling) and I have lost the facility to centralise my focus point by pressing the centre "OK" button. Can anyone guide me how to restore this function please.
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You may have changed the setting in custom settings menu, controls, ok button (shooting mode) needs to be on reset
 
Hi

Have a problem and wonder if anyone can help?
I've set up just to record RAW in the Quality' option, and set the 'role played by card in slot 2' to 'RAW Slot 1 - JPEG Slot 2'.
By my thinking, it should just shoot RAW and send it to slot 1. If there's no JPEG then there shouldn't be anything going to slot 2.
But, what it's doing is duplicating the shot on 1 and 2, both in RAW, i.e., like it's backing it up.

Is this right?
Am I being an idiot?

Cheers
A
 
One of the options for the card handing is something like overflow. I can't recall exactly. Use that and it'll just shoot to card 1 and when full move to card 2.
 
I don't understand why you would tell the camera to record only raw, then tell the camera to record jpeg? Then question why the camera has recorded only raw.
 
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Bigvin said:
I don't understand why you would tell the camera to record only raw, then tell the camera to record jpeg? Then question why the camera has recorded only raw.
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Because i shoot raw but 1% of the time i want to shoot jpeg and i thought that the setting would mean that 'if' there are jpegs, they will go to slot 2, if there aren't, nothing would go to slot 2.
I've found discussion of this elsewhere, so I'm not the only one to query this.
 
Quick Q for Nikon owners - how do you clean your viewfinder ? Have not cleaned either the 7100 or the 600 V/F yet and both are getting a bit dusty/gruby - I don't want to use my sensor gel cleaner (use only for the sensor) what suggestions dya have ?
 
Just been reading that the high ISO performance of the D7100 is better than the D700

I thought that the IQ of the D700 was far better at high ISO's
 
Downton Mini said:
Morning all I have just brought a D7000 waiting for it to arrive why do we not have post on Sundays or bank holidays

I'm upstanding from a D3100 which I will keep as a back up.

I want to get some spare batteries for it are any of the third party ones worth looking at? Also what's the difference coded and de coded batteries?

I'm sure I'll have lots of questions when it arrives.

Hoping it works well with my nikon 18-55 afs, tamron 18-200, nikon 70-390vr and sigma 10-20 ham lenses
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I just got a spare battery from 7 day shop, and I have friends who have used their stuff too. Seems to be all good. Great service too
 
Dan_uk_mids said:
I just got a spare battery from 7 day shop, and I have friends who have used their stuff too. Seems to be all good. Great service too
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same here I've had one of there's for perhaps 18 months or so. I am not convinced it lasts quite as long as the Nikon original, but given that different type of shooting can drain your battery quicker its a bit hard to tell. Not had any issues with it at all. :)
 
I am now a D7000 owner again. Just brought a used one from the classifieds on here. Just need to ge used to what all the buttons do again. Only a plus side I found my Thom Hogan guide while looking for my SD cards in the cupboard, thought I had sold it.
 
minnnt said:
This thread needs some pics!
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Here y'are, my brand new one at 6400 ISO. It doesn't really stand up to close scrutiny but looks okay from a distance, and my old A200 wouldn't have been able to do this.

 
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