jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This is why I like to see people getting new cameras. It makes them happy, and they give their brains some exercise. Nice shots.

DEBJENROB Loc: DELRAY BEACH FL

Yu might want to buy:
1) Quickpro Camera Guide ... it is a video
2) David Busch's Compact Field Guide for The Nikon D800/800e
3) Cheatsheet for the D800/800e by ...Photo by Bert

lone ranger Loc: Port Saint Lucie, Florida

great stuff, enjoy your new D800E, I own a D800 myself, and I feel its the best Nikon, I have ever owned, of all the Nikons I have owned over the years.......

C.R. Loc: United States of Confusion

i presume, since it's "always on" it activated by one of your buttons on the front or back of the camera body

Jbat Loc: Charleston, SC

You might consider changing your focus to the back button which has been discussed on this forum many times. You won't have to worry about the shutter and the back button is very convenient. I have had a D800 for almost 2 years and it is a great camera. I am sure you will continue to enjoy yours.

Coyote9269 Loc: USA

You will love the camera. I found Ken Rockwell very very helpfull for learning the camera as well as adjusting settings and shooting menus. For the 800e you can down load his settings. http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d800/users-guide/

His user guide is an easy walk through. One of the Nikon challenges is if you change it it stays changed till you change it back.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

Have you tried back button focus? I think it is much easier to use than pressing the shutter button half way down.

Coyote9269 Loc: USA

Good luck and great shots !!

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

Look up and learn AF and AS settings on auto focus. It is the "toggle switch on the front of your camera body near your left ring finger when gripping. Learn the differences by reading all about them.

Do this "research/looking-up/learning all about each function every time you come up against something new, and you will build your knowledge- and never say "I don't know how I fixed it". Learn it right, and never have to go back and screw around with this one thing again, over time you'll learn them all and your learning curve will level out.


I expect you have it set to dynamically focus on a single point so that the camera refocuses as you move slightly. This function is meant for focusing on moving targets, like a runner or car race, etc. The camera will "follow" the moving subject by constantly re-focusing.

The other setting sets and freezes the focus on whatever it was pointing at when you pushed halfway down. This is handy when shooting a portrait, you focus on the eyes- still holding halfway down and re-compose the photo. You'll see wedding professionals doing this- bobbing their camera first up , and then down to get in the feet. Looks like they don't know what they are doing. But now you'll know... they do it rather then move the single focal point box that appears dead center by default in the interest of speed, as you can move this point with the pad on the back right, but is faster doing the "bob"!

If you worked around by choosing many focus points, you may have gotten it to work- but you are not in command of your camera! LOL Laughing because the D800 is a bear to totally command. Like an onion, it has many layers. But this setting is a good one to know.

I didn't tell you which is which- learn it or you won't be able to command it when you could use it!

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

The best things I did, beside buying my D800E, were to switch over to rear focus and to attend a two day, Nikonians class that walked us through every menu and button. This is not my Nikormat. Nice shots! Better shooting ahead...

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

NYjoe, you might want to click on the "Quote Reply" so that the person you are commenting back to knows that you are directing your appreciation towards him/her.

Secondly, I know that the D800 is complicated. I've got a friend that purchased one when it first came out and he still has problems with the menu system of the Nikon camera bodies. Good luck figuring out the settings.

Hammer Loc: London UK

Hi,

Great photos and congrats from a fellow 800E owner .

But why Nothern England? we need your money here in the south .

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

Congratulations! Welcome abroad to the Nikon Land!
You can just assign the "AF-ON" button for focusing lock. For AFs, just press it once to lock on the subject you want, for AFc, you need to press and hold on the button to continue focusing. Of course you can chose how many focus point. Your D800 has 51 max. point.
D800 is a great camera, before I purchased the Df to replace my old D200, I once considered the D800, but the huge pixel turned me off. I am very happy with the Df.

Happy Shooting
:lol: :lol: :lol:

NYjoe Loc: US/UK

Hammer....I was raised by post war british immigrants and I love GB (however it is defined these days) and have been back and forth many times since Freddie Laker first made it easy. This last trip was my first expressly to experience the north - not just drive through it on my way to Scotland. The south from London to St. Ives has always been the easier trip with no shortage of amazingly unique and beautiful sights and characters. However, I found the north just as unique, more accessible, cheaper and less of a post-card presentation of itself..as London has become. In fact, I have skipped London the last few trips as it seems now to strive toward something less unique and more global while celebrating the fixed icons of what it use to be. So by trying to be dynamic in this way it seems to have washed away its character. I'm sure I have a skewed view since I don't actually live there...but that's just what it seems like to me. As to money, we middle class American travelers have less and less of it. Corporations and Movie Stars have it all and they own lawyers and politicians to insure it stays that way. Same there I would guess. Still, if I stand still long enough in the UK I can feel the money creeping out of my pockets due to an army of vending machines designed to accept it for any possible need I might have, movement I might make, or idea I might have. Same in NYC really....except in UK it seems to radiate into all cities, towns and villiages. I think this post should have been placed in the opinion section with all the other right wing raving...but I'm usually a lefty! Sorry folks.

Zone-System-Grandpa Loc: Springfield, Ohio

Glad to read that someone else has just taken ownership of a new Nikon D800e !

I just received mine about three days ago and, wow, is there lots to learn !!!!! AND, yes, I agree with you about how the Canon 5D was much easier to work with.. My 5D Mark II is much easier to work with, but I do appreciate the extra detail the 36 megapixels the D800e gives..

If anyone would like to help me, I would like to ask what is the best method to export images out of Lightroom 5 to a professional lab for making a large color print ? I am suggesting that I would like to eventually have an enlargement made 30"x40" and need to know how to export the image out of Lightroom 5 to a lab and once I know how it is done, I would like to also know if exporting a Raw file image is the best way to go ?

In advance, I thank those who may reply :) :-D

~ Doug ~