Nikon D500 User Guide for Beginners

Fifty-one autofocus points. Ten frames a second. A back panel with more buttons and dials than you know what to do with at first. If you just moved up to a D500 from a consumer camera, the body alone can make you feel like you bought equipment for a job you're not qualified for yet.

You are. The camera's just never had anyone sit down and walk you through it properly.

This book skips the part where you dig through 900 menu items looking for the one that matters. Card setup that won't cost you a shoot when a card fails mid event. Every physical control on the body, front to back, explained by what it does for your photo, not just what it's labeled. The custom settings menu broken into pieces you can actually configure in one sitting instead of abandoning halfway through. Autofocus points and tracking modes set up for a subject that's actually moving, since that's most of why people buy this body in the first place.

Chapter four alone covers the difference between AF-S and AF-C in a way that finally makes sense of why your action shots keep missing focus, and what to change about it today.

By the end of this book you'll have:

• A dual card slot setup that backs up your shots automatically, so one bad card doesn't cost you a wedding or a client shoot
• Every button and dial on the D500 body committed to memory because you know what it does, not because you memorized a diagram
• A custom settings menu built around how you actually shoot, not left on factory defaults
• Autofocus and tracking configured for moving subjects, kids, sports, wildlife, whatever you bought this camera for
• A video and audio setup that doesn't sound like it was recorded through a pillow

The D500 was Nikon's flagship DX body for a reason. This is the part where you start shooting like it.