Nikon Autofocus Setting for Action

This video explains into depth about how to set your camera properly for action shots since there are many sports photographers who aren't happy with their own products that they paid over $3,000 for. This video helps you to get action shots in focus (football, birds, wildlife, portraits, etc.). Enjoy!

Note: Nikon D3's 10 and 11 FPS options will disable autofocusing. This video is an example how to capture action with autofocusing enabled. If you require autofocusing, do not use 10 or 11 FPS options.

Update: Sorry for a mistake in the video, use Dynamic Area AF for 3D Tracking, NOT Auto Area.

Music: Miserable Lie by The Smiths and Freddie Freeloader by Miles Davis

Category:

Education

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• Autofocusing
• setting
• for
• sports
• action
• wildlife
• portraits
• AF
• AF-S
• Nikon
• FPS
• 10
• 11
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• Per
• Second

[thejazzee1]

About 4 months ago I bought a D300s and just started shooting. No CLUE what I'm doing...but coming up with some decent shots. I love to shoot jazz musicians.Any tips for shooting in dark, smoky jazz clubs where I have to use existing light or my SB900 and try not to be to annoying to the rest of the audience? BTW...love Freddie Freeloader :-)

[Lilkiwiguy87]

• Use a fast prime or zoom lens (ƒ/2.8 or faster) and stop it down by a stop for better sharpness.

• Never use a flash in dark conditions that are lit by colored lights (like at concerts or nightclubs) because the flash will only ruin the beautiful ambient colors.

• You might will need to crank the ISO up high to get shutter speeds that are faster than the lens' focal length. For example, 50mm ƒ/1.4, use shutter speeds faster than 1/50s such as 1/60s or faster.

• Have fun!

[sitato3]

Can someone please tell me how to set the RAW files to Uncompressed on a D90...

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Sorry, you cannot because D90 does not have RAW compression control; it is fixed at Lossless Compression.

[lorikzzz]

This slows down the FPS on the D3s ! Why is that ?

[Lilkiwiguy87]

It slows down the frame rate speed because of AF-C Priority Selection is set for Focus (only) where the camera needs time to get the subject in focus between shots. If frame rate speed is important, you can use Release (only) or Focus + Release. However, expect some out of focus shots because in Release, the camera will trigger, no matter what if the subject is in focus or not. In Release + Focus, the camera checks focus 50% of the time and trigger 50% of the time.

[Austin28angel]

nice one dude. ^_^

[mrt188]

Great tutorial! Learned a lot.

[bratvlad]

I think these kind a videos are more important to people like me (beginners with SLRs) than even reviewing the lenses.

good vid!

[ajirehd]

nice...thanks for this tutorial, I just I bought a nikon d7000 and this settings go in one of my U1 or U2. I will enjoy if you made one for landscape, Thanks!!!!

[thejazzee1]

@Lilkiwiguy87

Thank you soooo much!!

[lorikzzz]

@Lilkiwiguy87 Thank you very much