Nikon D300 Manuel utilisateur

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Thom Hogan’s

Complete Guide

to the Nikon D300

1st Edition

By Thom Hogan

byThom Press

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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300

First Edition 2008

Published in the United States by

byThom Press

Emmaus, PA 18049

http://www.bythom.com

Copies of this work may not be distributed in any form or by

any transmission method.

All photographs by and © Thom Hogan

This book is not sponsored by Nikon Corporation.

Information, data, and procedures described herein are

correct to the best of the author’s and publisher’s knowledge;

all other liability is expressly disclaimed. Nikkor, Nikon, and

Speedlight are registered trademarks of Nikon Corporation,

Japan. CompactFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation.

All other products or name brands are trademarks of their

respective manufacturers.

The author and publisher shall not be responsible for errors

contained herein or any damages in connection with the

furnishing, performance, or use of the material in this book. In

particular, the author and publisher shall not be responsible

for any damage to the sensor of the camera of any reader who

follows the cleaning instructions contained in this book. Nor

shall the author and publisher be responsible for damage to

camera electronics by anyone attempting to make their own

external power supply based upon the ideas presented in this

book. It’s a sad commentary on our society that I even need to

include this disclaimer.

1st Edition, version 1.02: 3/6/08

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Acknowledgements

This book is better because of the reviews and comments of

William Ackerman, Paul Beiser, Jeff Blumenthal, Matt Buedel,

Stanley H. Burg, Joe T. Carter, Shun Cheung, Bob Cohen,

Nick Davis, Mark Delgado, Billy Dixon, Dan Frank, Mark

Fedak, Bill Ferreira, Lukas Harden, Stephen Hardman, Phillip

B. Holland, Joseph O. Holmes, Steve Horne, Devin M. Kani,

Yasha Karant, Dixon Kenner, Klifton Keplinger, Neal

Lippman, Nancy McMurtrie, Cris McRae, Ralph Mawyer Jr.,

Chandra Mouli, Harald Nagel, Barry Nelson, Adebayo

Olumide, Richard Ross, Steve Rucker, John J. Schmidt, Joel C

Schochet, Mitch Strauss, Chuck Tankersley, Mark Ward,

Doug Werner, Rob White, and Leroy Wiley.

Several Web sites proved useful in researching aspects of this

book. While I mention others at appropriate points in the

book, four need to be singled out for D300 users:

• Phil Askey’s http://www.dpreview.com has some of the

most thorough reviews of digital cameras (yes, even more

thorough than the ones on my own site) and an ongoing

forum that’s useful for getting answers to tough questions

(select Nikon D300/D200/D100 from the Discussion

Forums pop-up in the left navigation panel).

• Nikonians http://www.nikonians.com is another of the

“well-attended” public forums that are useful for Nikon

D300 users. Click on Forums, then click on the

D100/D200/D300 Users Group link.

• Nikon Café http://www.nikoncafe.com is a relatively new

moderated forum and has had a lively discussion of the

D300. Click on Lighting and Flash, Cameras, and

gear, and then click on the Nikon D3/D300 forum link.

• Nikon Gear http://www.nikongear.com is a moderated

forum with notables such as Bjorn Rorslett involved. Click

on FORUM at the top of the page, and then click on the

The New Nikon D300 forum link.

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About this eBook

This eBook was created using Adobe Acrobat directly from

my original files. I’ve tried to retain as many of the

navigational features as Acrobat allows (for example, the

Bookmarks section at the left is derived from the Table of

Contents and is fully active—click on an entry and you’ll be

taken to it). Curiously, trying to create a fully functional eBook

using Adobe’s tools is worthy of an eBook itself (most of the

chapters would be centered on trying to get promised features

to work, and how they keep changing between Acrobat

Professional versions, sometimes going backwards in ability).

Your Rights versus Mine

I make my living documenting Nikon equipment. Thus, I have

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That said, I have not enabled copy protection, forced you to

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Agreement, or in any other way limited access to the

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1. Treat the CD you received as you would a printed

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that printed copy, and must destroy it if you sell or

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3. I grant everyone who purchases the eBook directly

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any other copies you have of this work, printed or

electronic, if you sell or pass on the original eBook

you received.

It is a violation of Copyright law to distribute or sell copies of

this work. It is also a violation of Copyright law to put this

work in any public forum, send it to any newsgroup, place it

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This work is registered with the Copyright office. That means

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Printing the eBook

On to a more positive subject: if you’d like a hard copy of the

eBook, you can print a copy for your personal use by

selecting Print from the File menu.

It’s possible to print on both sides of the paper and get a real

book-like experience by using the Print: Odd Pages Only

and Print: Even Pages Only options on the Print dialog, but

I don’t recommend this unless you’re good at keeping track of

paper, know how to properly re-orient the paper for the

second pass, and are sure that your printer won’t choke on a

page somewhere. With some HP printer drivers, for example,

you can print the odd pages, put the pages generated back

into the printer correctly oriented, then select Print: Even

Pages Only and Print Back to Front, saving you the step of

reordering the pages before the second pass.

Some recent printers offer something called “duplex printing,”

where the printer itself handles flipping the paper. That’s how

1I have not and will not pass rights for this work to other parties. Yes, other people

fraudulently claim that they own the rights when they don’t. And they hear from my

lawyer when they do. Don’t say you weren’t warned should you try this.

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I print my eBooks for myself on my HP OfficeJet, which

supports duplex printing. Here’s the relevant dialog on my

Mac filled out correctly for this eBook:

Since there are so many printers available and their dialog

boxes all allow different printing options, I can’t help you

figure out the most economical or convenient way to print

your eBook2. Yes, it even took me a few minutes to figure out

how to create front and back copies on my laser printer, so I

know it’s a hassle. A complete set of step-by-step instructions

that work for the three printers I have available are included

on the CD in a separate file, called PRINTING.PDF.

Take the resulting pages to your copy shop, have them trim

the edges (the final page size is 5.5 x 8.5” unless you’ve let

Acrobat rescale the book to fit the full page) and bind. This

eBook is actually in three specific sections that could be

bound separately (“Before You Take Pictures,” “Shooting

Pictures with Your D300,” and “After You’ve Taken Pictures

with Your D300”); I’ve tried to keep the instructions you’d

want while out shooting in the middle section.

2Since I get the occasional question as to why I don’t publish a paper version, I’ll

explain: paper versions turn out to be more expensive to produce in the small

quantities at which a niche publication like this sells. Producing this eBook

electronically allows me to create it on demand, reducing waste and cost, and to

keep it up to date as I learn new things about the camera. It also gives me a chance to

correct the inevitable minor typos that somehow creep into every major production.

On that last point: I keep a current errata list on my Web site. You’ll find the one for

this version of the eBook (1.02) at http://www.bythom.com/d300guideerrata.htm.

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If you’re really the type that doesn’t like to struggle through

the paper handling idiosyncrasies of your printer, most

Kinko’s and similar copy shops can print, collate, and bind a

nice portable version of this book for you (show them the

statement on the back cover or on the previous page if they

balk at printing a Copyrighted work). Make sure they know

that the final page size is 5.5” x 8.5”.

Note: Kinko’s and other copy shops should actually refuse to

make a copy of this eBook, as it is protected by Copyright.

Show them the boxed area on the back cover of the eBook

jacket, my Web page for the eBook, or Item #2 in the “Your

Rights versus Mine” section where I grant you permission to

print or have printed a copy for your personal use. If that

doesn’t work, have them email me at

thom_hogan@msn.com to verify that this is okay.

If you encounter a copy shop that doesn’t ask you to show

permission to reproduce a copyrighted work, or one that

still refuses after being shown permission, I’d like to hear

about it. If the former and the copy shop is a chain, it is

probably violating direct court orders that mandate that

they don’t do this. I’ve not put Digital Rights Management

on this file to block all copying and printing, because it’s a

hassle for the user. So, please respect my rights and help

report those that willingly violate them.

Note: Some Kinko’s now use a special piece of software to print

from PDF files, such as the one for this eBook. Since that

software first attempts to extract all text from the file and I

have selected to block text extraction in Acrobat, this means

that such software fails to work with this eBook. Kinko’s can

still print it by simply running Acrobat, but this limits some

of the fancier options they can do.

This eBook is designed to help you get quality results from

your Nikon D300. While I’ll try to provide introductory

material that should help even a photography novice get by,

this eBook probably isn’t the place to learn what an aperture

or shutter speed is (check out http://www.bythom.com/bookrecs.htm

if you want some recommendations for general photography

books).

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Nevertheless, I will try to explain the concepts and

terminology that are necessary to understand how a D300

works. If you find something in this eBook unclear, or that I’ve

assumed knowledge on your part that you don’t have, don’t

hesitate to drop me an email asking for an explanation. Not

only will I answer your question, but it will give me some

insight on what I might want to change in future editions to

make the eBook even clearer.

Besides dealing with the practical side of the camera and

showing you how all the basic functions work, I’ll also

provide you with some tips on how to squeeze every last bit

of image quality out of your camera as well as how to make

up for some of its shortcomings.

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Note on the First Edition

While this is a first edition, the D300 is enough like earlier

Nikon DSLRs that I’ve been able to re-purpose and rewrite

portions of earlier eBooks—specifically the D200 eBook, as

the D300 shares menu structure and many options with that

camera—which means that much of the information here has

been previously vetted.

One thing I have done with this eBook, though, is completely

restructure it from my previous ones. With my eBooks on

advanced Nikon bodies I’ve received feedback from readers

that indicates many of you want a tighter work with more

suggestions, and something that you can take with you.

So, to better serve my readers, I’ve made some changes from

the way I put together the D200 eBook. In particular, I’ve

removed the introductory material on DSLRs, added many

more suggestions on how to use various camera controls, and

produced a hard copy supplement entitled Thom Hogan’s

D300 To Go. That supplement isn’t designed so much to be

read as to be referred to for quick reference while out

shooting.

At the same time, there are still some of you who are coming

to the D300 who want additional introductory material. I’ve

moved that to a separate PDF file on the CD entitled Intro to

DSLRs.

But that’s not all. I’ve taken what used to be the “software

section” completely out of this eBook and made it into a

complete eBook of its own entitled Introduction to Nikon

Software. This new eBook is also found on the CD you

received and includes complete descriptions on the current

Nikon software. By putting the software into a separate work,

I’ve been able to expand it considerably and will now be able

to keep it up to date separately from the cameras.

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Since I mentioned the change in structure earlier, let me

elaborate on it so that you know what to expect in this work.

This eBook is separated into three distinct sections:

•Things you should know and consider before using the

D300 (labeled “D300 Background” and starting on page

<25>). In this first major section I cover a lot about how

the D300 came to be, its specifications and capabilities,

and how it differs from previous Nikon DSLRs. I’ll also

cover how to set up your camera for shooting. This

section is up front because it’s the background material

you need to get up to speed with the unique aspects of

your camera.

•Things you need to know while using the D300 (labeled

“Shooting Pictures with Your D300” and starting on page

<224>). This is the “how-to” section of the eBook. Here’s

where I walk you through each feature of the camera as

you’d use it. I’ll explain why you might use it, how to

make that feature active, and what your options are. Yes,

you may find a few things repeated in this section from

the first, but in the interest of making for a complete

“how-to” section, I’ve elected to repeat some set-up and

other instructions. The separate Thom Hogan’s D300 To

Go is a highly abbreviated version of this section.

•Things you need to know and do after you’ve taken your

pictures (labeled “After You’ve Taken Pictures with Your

D300” and starting on page <708>). When you come

back from shooting with your camera you still have things

you may want to do, like print, view, or improve your

images. Note that I don’t cover what you do on a

computer with your images in this section—that’s reserved

for the new Introduction to Nikon Software eBook that

came with this one.

The structure of this eBook also mimics the order you’ll want

to follow as you master your new camera: initiation, use, and

post production.

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