Nikon manual David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

180 David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

The increased capacity of digital memory cards gives you a prodigious number of frames to work with. At a basketball game I covered earlier this year, I took more than 1,000 images in a couple hours. Yet, even shooting RAW+JPEG Fine I could fit more than 700 images on a single 32GB Secure Digital card. If I’d switched to JPEG only (which is more typical for sports), I could have taken about 3,000 different images without switching cards or using the second card in my D7000, in Overflow mode. Even at the top speed of 6 frames per second that the D7000 is capable of, that’s a lot of shooting. Given an average burst of about eight frames per sequence (nobody really takes 15-20 shots or more of one play in a basketball game), I was able to capture hundreds of dif- ferent sequences before I needed to swap cards. Even simple plays, like a layup, seemed more exciting when captured in a sequence of shots, as in Figure 7.1.

To use the D7000’s continuous shooting modes, hold down the release mode dial’s unlock button and rotate the dial until either CL or CH appear. When you partially depress the shutter button, the viewfinder will display at the right side a number rep- resenting the maximum number of shots you can take at the current quality settings. The large buffer in the D7000 will generally allow you to take as many as 31 JPEG shots in a single burst, or 10 RAW photos.

Figure 7.1 Continuous shooting allows you to capture an entire sequence of exciting moments as they unfold.