A new beginning

Hello!

It’s been a while coming, but I’m finally getting started with the blog. About a year ago I purchased a Nikon D7000, with two standard kit lenses – 18-105 and 55-300. Around the same time my partner, set up this blog – thank you! To my credit I have allowed both the camera and blog to collect a lot of dust through lack of use over the past year (doh!) and still know just as much on how to use a DSLR as I did prior to purchasing this camera (which is absolutely nothing!). Hooray!

So in an effort to turn things around, I’ll be updating this blog more regularly and will start looking at different features of the camera (beginning to sound like a New Years resolution.. dangerous stuff) in an effort to begin to understand how this monster of a camera works. To kick things off the next few blog posts will be a collection of different events where I used the camera, my initial experiences with the camera as well as some old travel photos taken prior to the Nikon (just to balance things out a bit).

A few specs on the camera courtesy of the Nikon USA Site:

Specifications
Lens Mount: Nikon F bayonet mount
Effective Pixels: 16.2 million
Sensor Size: 23.6mm x 15.6mm
Total Pixels: 16.9 million
File Format Still Images: NEF (RAW): Lossless Compressed or Compressed 12 or 14 bit, JPEG: JPEG-Baseline-Compliant; can be selected from Size Priority and Optimal Quality
Card Slot: 2 Secure Digital (SD)
Fastest Shutter Speed: 1/8000 sec. (cool!)
Slowest Shutter Speed: 30 sec.
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100 – 6400
Autofocus System: 39 focus points (including 9 cross-type sensors)
Battery / Batteries: EN-EL15 Lithium-ion Battery
Battery Life (shots per charge): 1,050 shots (CIPA)
Approx. Dimensions
Width: 5.2 in. (132mm)
Height: 4.1 in. (103mm)
Depth: 3.0 in. (77mm)
Approx. Weight: 24.3 oz. (690g) (talk about a heavy camera, will be working out those arm muscles…)
camera body only