Important Tips About Nikon Digital SLR Camera
GET BETTER PHOTOGRAPHS WITH A PHOTO TRIP CHECKLIST
You reach for your camera and realize you have a wide angle lens on the body. To get a really great picture of the deer you will need your telephoto. You reach in your camera bag every so quietly. The great picture is gone, for today anyway.
Whenever I prepare to go on photo trip, whether it is near my home or across the country, I always go through a basic checklist to ensure that I have everything I need for my trip. I actually have multiple checklists since I shoot a Nikon digital SLR camera and a Nikon film camera. Here are my checklists:
Digital
• Nikon D70s camera body
• Battery charger
• Extra Battery
• Lenses: 300mm and a zoom lens (18 to 70mm) mounted on the camera
• Memory Cards: I usually bring three 512 cards with me. I use 512 cards because I can burn a full card on a CD on my laptop. That is about the full capacity of a CD.
• Laptop with CD burner: I generally down load the digital images to my laptop and burn a CD. This gives me backup while I am shooting. This is just a measure of safety to protect the images I have just taken.
• Blank CDs
• Camera manual
Film
• Nikon camera body
• Fresh batteries in camera
• Extra set of fresh batteries as backup
• Lenses (some will work with my digital camera as well)
• Film: I bring twice as much as I think I will actually need.
• Camera manual
• Lens shade
For both Cameras
• Cokin P filter holder
• Polarizing filter
• Graduated neutral density filter
• Exposure meter
• 18% Grey Card
• Tripod
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