hey guys how's it going it's Jay and today I got the Nikon ZF and we're going to go over this camera beginner guide style so this is a great video for those that are new to the Nikon system specifically the Nikon ZF which is a very powerful street style Rangefinder style camera so it has a lot of dials and buttons it's a very tactile camera it's got really good build quality and it's it's pretty fairly large and heavy as well so we're just going to go over this thing inside now out I'm going to go over the camera body first then we're going to turn the camera on I'll show you how to set it up all right guys so I just want to give a shout out to BH photo who is kind enough to let me borrow the Nikon ZF so I can make videos like this for you guys so it' be cool if you guys check them out as well in your spare time if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be able to make this video so thanks again BH photo and uh let's get into it first of all congratulations on your new camera this thing really is awesome so in the Box what you get is a USBC cable so it's a USBC to USBC there is no charger like wall charger that came with the camera just to let you know next up we have the battery here so this is the battery has a nice little protective cover on there you just got to take that off and you can see here's the electrical contacts and then of course we have the camera strap now the camera strap you can take out and it weaves through these little camera strap holders here so you can put that on if you want I'm not going to put it on right now because it gets in the way when I'm doing this tutorial but I do highly recommend putting a camera strap on of some sort so many camera strap options out there but uh you don't want to drop this camera and the grip on this camera is not really that good as far as you know grabbing the camera all right so first thing we're going to want to do is get this sucker charging so let's get the battery in there all right so looking at the bottom here you got the quarter2 tripod plate you also have the other hole here for different tripod plates so it'll keep the tripod plate from spinning basically now over here we have the battery door and notice how this door automatically locks which I really like Auto locking door wish all cameras had that now here is where the battery goes you could see there's like a little cheat sheet there telling you which way to put it in and basically it's going to go like this and just like pretty much every other camera there's a lever there that is actually holding the camera down and then when you push it it'll spring up now as far as memory cards go we need to get a memory card in there and this is the memory card I've been using lately this is the prograde v9 it's excellent card SanDisk makes great cards as well Lexar and so forth so I'll leave a couple of links below I would recommend getting whatever's on sale um but because this camera does have really high bit rate kodac in there I would recommend getting a v90 card now you don't necessarily need that for taking photos just to let you know but it will clear the buffer faster if you're taking rapid fire shots if you have a faster card it'll also transfer the the photos and videos off the camera faster with a faster card so keep that in mind so the memory card is going to go in like this you just push that down and that's spring loaded so when you click it again it will then pop up and you could grab it and take it out like so so we got the main SD card slot here and then we have the micro SD card slot here so this is a dual slot design and you can see this little cheat sheet again will kind of show you the to two slots with the SD and the micro SD and then of course the battery there and now watch the Auto closing door got to love it so now what I want to show you is the USB port on the side because I want to get this thing charging so you can see here we have these nice rubber doors so we got some really good weather ceiling on this camera so notice up there there's a little chg that's a charging light and that will light up when we plug in the charger so I just have a PD power source here so it's just a wall charger with a USBC cable very similar to the cable that came with the camera except like I said this is plugged into the wall so I'm just going to plug it into the USB C port and you should see that light light up letting you know that it is now charging and there it is and you know in a perfect world that light should go out when the battery is fully charged so I'm just going to unplug this for now and while I'm over here let me show you this other door so we got the microphone Jack here we got the micro HDMI here and above that we have the headphone port and then of course the USB C port for file transfer and uh charging and stuff like that so I really like these rubber doors how they seal they are a little bit hard to get back on but not too hard like worth complaining about but the seal is what's very nice so definitely don't have to worry about water getting in there all right guys so now that we got the battery in there and theoretically we have the camera charging if you guys are following along just you know follow along and make sure your camera's charging while we're doing this that would be my recommendation so what we're looking at on the top here we have the iso dial so this is the camera sensor sensitivity and right now it is set to C mode which means camera is going to control it so you can adjust it on the camera or you can use these dials so it has a lock button here and it unlocks when you're going through all the different ISO settings but when you get back to C it locks and you just have to unlock it with this button to turn it like so so that's pretty much having the camera control the iso like I said you could use the dials or you could let the camera do it on the back and you can adjust it using the command dials and stuff which is kind of how I prefer to use it but if you're a rangefinder style user you're probably going to want to use this in full manual mode which I totally understand and uh why wouldn't you when you have a camera that has all these tactile you know feedback dials and everything it's pretty awesome so over here on the left hand side you have the modes and there's actually a switch for that right here it's like a toggle switch and you can see with my thumb how I'm changing the modes with that toggle switch it's kind of hard to see cuz everything is black it's a little bit dark there now I'm going to keep keep it in auto mode for now because this is a beginner's guide so I'm going to start with the camera in Auto then I'm going to build from there and we'll go into the other camera modes but I always like to start in Auto for those beginners out there that just want to get shooting immediately and might not necessarily know how to use manual mode for example so you could skip ahead if you're a more advanced user of course so this right here is the focal plane indicator so that is where you would measure from if you need to measure for minimum Focus distance for example doing macro photography and so forth that is where the sensor plane is now right here is the monitor selector so you can actually push this this is a button right here and that will change between the viewfinder and the screen and it'll also change to different priority options you could make it so it's only the viewfinder or you can make it so it's only the monitor for example and the LCD screen is considered the monitor just so you know we also have stereo mics here on the left and the right there's like these little holes are kind of hard to see right there you can see it right there there's one of them there's another one on the other side so that is your stereo microphones now we also have the hot shoe on the top here where you can put flash units and stuff like that you can also put an on camera mic and and things like that in there now over here we have the shutter speed dial and right now it's set to 1/3 step which means you could basically control it on the camera and it'll go 1/3 of a stop as you turn the command dial for shutter speed so again it's kind of like auto mode for shutter controlling it on on the camera this has the same lock mechanism as the iso dial over here so it's locked on 1/3 stop and it also will lock on X which stands for Flash sync speed so if you're using a flash you can set this to X and that will sync the shutter speed to the flash sync speed to ensure proper exposure and stuff like that and notice how it's locked on the X as well so you can turn it to T which stands for time now time is a more advanced feature you do have to be in manual mode to use the time function but how that works is you just press the shutter button down and then it the counter will start counting and then you just press the shutter button again when you're done so that's like a timed exposure now it's also locked in that so you have to hit this button and now it's in bulb mode bulb mode works very similar to time mode except you have to actually hold your finger on the shutter for bulb mode so bulb mode just requires you to hold it and then when you let go the exposure is done the bulb mode is also locked so I'm going to turn this to unlock socket and now we have just your regular shutter speed options so you have 4 seconds 2 seconds 1 second and so forth you can go all the way around here we get to fractions of a second and then it locks when we get back to 1/3 stop now there's another mode dial here which will switch between photo black and white so you can see black and white photo regular photo or video mode so this is like a sub dial to select the camera mode so I'm just going to leave it in photo mode for now but that's what this sub dial does underneath the shutter now of course we have the on and off toggle here so that's on off and then we have a shutter button here which is a very nice feedback on all these dials and buttons by the way the shutter button is a two-stage button so you can press it halfway to focus and then you can press it all the way down to take the photo we also have a video record button right here so you can start and stop recording video right there we also have a control panel here which shows the aperture value by default when you're in aperture priority mode and this can also be used for special exposure modes if you're doing really long exposures you can set in the menu there to countdown for example it would be like a counter now this dial here is the exposure comp dial so you can manipulate the camera's exposure plus or minus using that which is quite nice or you can set it to C mode as well and control that on the camera if you prefer now I just want to give you a little bit closer view of this grip here because there's really not much of a grip you could see there's a little bit there but honestly guys it's not enough you need more of a grip this camera weighs so much that this just isn't enough of a grip in my opinion even with your finger underneath it's hard to hold and I notice I keep hitting this button by mistake as well I actually disabled this button this was white balance by default so I actually disabled it cuz I kept hitting it by accident trying to hold this thing my fingers were just like sliding and stuff so I highly recommend getting a grip for this there's a grip I found on Amazon it's like like $36 or something like that made by small rig it'll bump the grip out significantly as you could see here in addition that grip attachment comes with an ARCA Swiss on the bottom which kind of looks like this and that's super convenient for tripods that have the Arca Swiss head like this fre whale tripod by the way which I recently reviewed is an awesome option you could also do it with the mini tripod like this LEF photo right here which I use this I carry with me everywhere but this is an ARCA Swiss type top and you can see how it has those angles all right guys so looking at the back you have the main command dial here and again very good feedback it's pretty hard to turn this dial so you're not going to really be turning it by accident too much over here we have the eyepiece release button that's what that is right there so you can take the eyepiece off if you want to clean it or whatever we have the playback menu we also have the garbage can over there which is acts as a delete button up here we have the viewfinder eye sensor so when you put your eye up it'll sense it and switch to the viewfinder automatically over here we have the auto exposure lock and the autofocus lock and it's also the protect photo button when in playback mode it'll add like a little lock next to your photo so you won't accidentally delete it this is your diopter I believe it's pronounced you adjust this for your vision and it'll adjust how the focus is for the viewfinder so if you wear glasses like me you might need to adjust this now over here this is a little light that lights up when the memory card is being accessed so when the camera's writing files to the memory card that will light up right there now this we have a multi- selector here which you know you have various directions you could use this to navigate the menu and then you have an okay button in there as well you got a display button which will change the way the screen displays so you have your zoom in for Zoom magnify and also to zoom in on photos when in the playback menu same thing with the zoom out this is also a question mark So when in the menu this will give you more information for a given feature if you press that button that's why there's a question mark there and then of course you have the menu button now up here you have the IM menu which is very similar to The Q menu on Canon cameras or the function menu on Sony cameras so basically it's like a little Sub menu that'll pop up on the bottom and it'll give you like quick access to key features like Focus area Focus mode metering mode facial recognition on and off things like that and it'll be different depending on what mode you're in so if you're in video mode and you hit the IM menu you're going to have different options than you would when in photo mode then of course we have this really nice monitor so if we open this up you can see the monitor over here now this is a touch monitor I'll show you that more when we turn the camera on of course but I just wanted to show you how it swivels around so you can use this camera in selfie mode like so if you need to know the serial number and stuff it's right here underneath the uh screen and of course you can close the screen this way and have the screen out however I highly recommend leaving it the other way especially when putting it in your camera bag and stuff like that so this way the screen does not get scratched all right guys so looking at the front of the camera we have another sub command dial so this is like the secondary command dial you have a custom button over here which by default is white balance you have the lens release over here that's what this is you also have this AF Illuminator lamp which also acts as a self timer countdown it'll blink this also acts as the rede reduction when using a flash now underneath this cap is the sensor so if you're new to Nikon cameras this actually rotates the opposite way compared to the Canon and Sony cameras that I mostly use but so it's a little weird to me but if you're used to an ncon you're going to be used to that so you just turn it and you can take that off and there is the fullframe sensor now note this lock pin you can see the pin going up and down see that steel pin that's what locks the lenses on so let me show you how to mount a lens I got this 24 to 200 here which is a really nice lens let me just show you how to mount this up you can see that white dot right there on the top of the lens well there's a white dot right here on top of the flange see the white dot on the flange so we're just going to marry up those white dots and then we're going to twist this and you could hear it lock you can hear it lock so now I can't get the lens off cuz it's locked to get the lens off I have to release it with this pin here so now if I hit that now I can take it right off let me just throw that back on there we go so now that I have the lens mounted I just wanted to to show you take off the lens cap and that's what the front of the lens looks like we have the lens hood here I recommend putting the lens hood on it will help protect if you accidentally bang the lens in front of something or whatever now if you guys aren't familiar with lenses this is a zoom lens so you are going to need to turn it to zoom it doesn't Zoom automatically so you got to turn it like so this lens also has a lock feature here which is quite nice so it won't Zoom if you don't want it to and this is the focus ring for this lens so the secondary ring is for Focus all right guys so it's time to turn the Nikon ZF on so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to take this lens hood off cuz I'm going to flip the camera up but let me just turn this on so we got this lever here put it to the on position now this is what you can expect to see when you first turn it on now I just wanted to go over this very quickly here so we have a touch shutter button over here we have the camera mode up here it tells you what the viewfinder is set to that's this button over here we talked about before so we have single shot drive mode and we have autofocus St uh single which is what it's currently set to now up top we have white balance it's set to A1 just Auto one you can actually have presets for your white balance favoring warm or cool depending on what you want to do extremely powerful camera here and then on the top right we have the basically it's like the creative mode or the style so that's also set to Auto below that we have the type of format that we're set to right now we're set to normal jpeg it's says FX there cuz we're in fullframe mode now that I right there is the I menu which you can hit this button right here or you can actually touch it and it'll bring it up as you could see here hit it again and it'll go away now we got battery life then of course we have ISO we have how many photos we could take that's the room left on the memory card and this is going to be your shutter speed and this is your aperture number right there and over here on the bottom left is your metering mode so if we swivel this out out also note when you put your eye up to this you can see when I cover the sensor how the TV turns on looks like a little TV in there all right guys so I have it in full auto mode and you can see right here on the top left it says it's in auto mode and basically all you got to do is point and shoot so here's the shutter button I can just point and take the photo or you can just touch because touch shutter is enabled by default if you look at this little icon right here now you can change that to off so it doesn't do anything when you touch it's up to you some people might want that off you also have the option to just move the focus Point around so if you touch around it'll move the focus Point like so and then when you focus it'll actually try to focus the camera if you go one more time you have touch a so now if you touch it will focus where you touch and then the last option is touch shutter as you can see there now the iso by default is in Auto but you can turn it and manually set it so now it's set to 100 you could see there so you can override it but by default I usually leave that on the C option on the dial now I just wanted to show you I did change the image quality if you go right here to image quality I have it set to Raw plus jpeg fine and these are all the other options so depending on what you're doing I usually use raw plus jpeg because it's nice to have the processed JPEG files and then the raw images as well if I want to process them myself so that's up to you you can select that in here there's a lot of different options and then we have image size settings so I have it set to large you can go in here and you can take medium if you want to get more photos for example and pretty much everything else is grayed out in here in this main area because we're in full auto mode so again you can see here it's focusing on the eye and by default if we use this directional option on the back the directional pad you can go right and left and notice now it's focusing on the right eye because I just changed it so you can change it right and left just by using this directional pad I love this feature I wish more cameras had it because it's very convenient to be able to change the eye so easily on other cameras like the Sony cameras you have to program it to a custom button or whatever so it's doable it's just this is by default ready to go now check out this little I button here see that little button with the ey that's the same as the button on the back with the ey and if you press it it'll bring up this menu now these are pretty much the key options that you can change when in full auto auto mode so you are limited you could see the jpeg size image quality white balance you cannot change picture control you cannot change AF area you can change now AF area is a very important feature AF area controls how much of the sensor is going to be active for like autofocus so basically you could limit the amount of the sensor area for autofocus and that's what this feature does this is extremely important because depending on what you're shooting some s the camera will focus on other stuff and you need to limit the focus the easiest way to do that is to just touch where you want it to focus but sometimes that's not that easy either it just isn't working for whatever reason so if you go in here you can change your area let me go over here and show you the wide large so this is the wide large area this is a really good option that I would probably use most of the time so this will limit the autofocus area to that red box so inside that red box so it's not going to focus on anything outside that box again very helpful if you're using facial recognition and you only wanted to pick a face that's in the center of the screen this is a good way to limit it you know highly recommend playing with this now over here you have these really tiny ones so this is pinpoint so you could see there that one red dot so this is going to be super accurate it's just using that one little tiny dot for focus and I used this the other day when I was focusing on a flower the camera just it was having a hard time so I switched it to point and boom I was able to get the shot I wanted very quickly so that's what Focus area mode does now if you look down here this is the subject detection now this also limits as to what the camera will or will not focus on because it'll prioritize subjects if you have this feature enabled so by default this is going to prioritize all these different subjects so you can just hard set it to like humans cats and dogs Cars airplanes or you can turn it off now the why you would want to have this off is because if you're trying to focus on like a product or something you're holding up in front of the camera you want to turn the facial detection off and then it'll focus on whatever is closest to the camera by default if there's facial recognition turned on for example even if you have something held up in front of the camera it's still going to prioritize the face so that's why you may or may not want to turn this off I'm just going to leave it on auto for now now this next option over here is the focus mode so a FS stands for autofocus single shot and what that means is let me change my focus mode back to the large area let me go here just going to go to the large area there all right so now it's going to focus on the face you could see the eye there lighting up so watch when I lock the focus there's a green box there now I can turn the camera you see how that green box stayed and I took the shot over there that's what AFS does it'll focus and then locks so you can now reframe your scene a lot of times you might want to take a picture of a portrait and then reframe it to get something else in the scene you know that's what's really cool about AFS now watch when I change that to AFC so now AFC you could see the green box doesn't come up but the focus is staying on the face so it's tracking the face it's continuously autofocusing that's what AFC does and that's basically how video works it's just continuously autofocusing although video actually has another mode AF for full-time autofocus which is I recommend using that for video but again if we go into the menu here let me just put this back to oh let me show you what manual focus does manual focus will allow you to just turn this ring here and you can see it coming up there on the bottom it shows you like four the distance close to infinity and so forth and if you hit the magnify zoom button it'll zoom in and make it much easier to manually focus and zoom in even more now watch when we turn this now we could dial it in really easy see that it's right about there and you can see down here when that Circle comes up it'll show you accurate focus when that circle's there that's how you know you got it perfect and it'll tell you it'll it'll like give you an arrow as to which way you need to rotate the lens which is really cool and that's how that works so that's manual focus let me put it back to AFS by the way you can touch these as well and it'll bring you in so this is the release mode and by default it is set to single frame which means it'll just take one shot but you can set it to continuous shooting like this here and notice there's an arrow there meaning if you go down there's more options so right now it's set to five frames per second and watch what happens when I take the photos now it's taking five frames per second see that so that's how that works and you can change it to highp speed highp speed plus so that's going to be really fast as you can see there and then you have 30 frames burst so you can select that if you want and it'll take 30 frames and then you have self timer here and again if you go down you have different options for the self timer you can also change the amount of shots you take very cool very powerful I like that a lot this is great for family portraits you can set it like say 10 seconds take three shots and then set the self timer I'll set it to five for now so we don't have to wait so long but watch you can see the self timer blinking and there's the three shots so that's how self-timer works and you can dial in the number of shots you take as well now guys when in auto mode if you turn this sub dial here by default it's going to change the exposure compensation and you can see that on the screen here on the very right side of the screen whoops I just touched see how I had just touched so now that tracking box is up or the autofocus if you hit the center button the okay button it'll go away and reset the settings so now it'll reacquire the face as you can see there but anyways this dial here the sub command dial you could see the exposure is going up and now it's going down so you have exposure control even though you're in full auto mode you can still manipulate it up or down if you need to sometimes the scene might be too bright or too dark you can control it there the rear control dial also controls the exposure comp when in full auto mode mode so if we hit the playback button here we can go into the playback menu and you can zoom in by hitting the zoom in and zoom out features and if you keep zooming out it'll go into these different display modes so you can see more photos you can scroll through all of them you can see I took a bunch here doing this testing so let me show you how program auto mode works a little bit differently so now I'm in program auto mode and notice how it's set to ISO Auto so let me go into to the menu here and show you the iso settings really quick so right here is ISO sensitivity settings so I can turn it off right here see how it says auto ISO sensitivity on this is where you can can go and turn that off if I turn that off now you can see the camera is locked at 100 so I would have to change the iso by turning this dial on the top and now the iso is changing when it's on the C mode though it won't change now so you have to actually have auto ISO enabled in the camera so if I go back in the menu there turn that on and you can also change the minimum shutter speed if you go in here notice this you can actually lock it down to a minimum shutter speed of like 1/ 1,000th of a second for example so now you can see I have 1/ 1,000th of a second of 5.6 and it's ISO 40,000 is required for that shutter speed so even though I'm in program Auto I have this all this power where I can actually lock the shutter speed into 1 1000 of a second using that feature for the iso minimum shutter speed right here so let's just put that back to Auto and then here is the second stage of that ISO sensitivity settings so this is where you can control the default shutter speed so right now it's at zero so if we look at the shutter speed let me put this back to auto all right so right now you can see it's at 150th of a second so that is the default speed that it's choosing at 50 mm in this situation sitting on a desk now watch when I change the zoom so now we're at about 30 mm and it's choosing 1/30th of a second see that I'm can zoom in even more so you can see the the shutter speed is automatically changing with the focal length of the lens and that's how this works by default but you can override that a little bit so so right like so 150th is like the slowest you're going to want it with for hand holding let's say at 50 mm so watch what happens if we go in here we just click Auto auto now we can go faster so let's go plus one see how the shutter speed went to 1/ 100th of a second so this is just going to give you in auto mode a little bit faster of a shutter so if you have shaky hands or you know the subject is moving a little bit and you need a little bit faster of a shutter or a little bit slower of a shutter this is where you can go and manipulate that I love this feature I use it all the time on the Sony cameras now again if we go even faster watch it's going to be 1200th of a second now see that so this is just a great way to manipulate the auto shutter speed when in program auto mode so you can't do this in full auto mode but program Auto gives you the power to do this so let me just go back and set that back and I'll show you how you can make it slower as well like -2 for example now I got 13th of a second which in this scene is fine watch see perfectly sharp nothing's moving so for lower light scenarios this is great especially if nothing's moving you get a much lower ISO and cleaner images the lower the iso the cleaner the images are going to be and also don't forget if you change this because you know your shutter might be too slow or too fast or something cuz you changed it so zero is a good place to leave it just at default 150th is pretty good if you have steady hands and you're using you know a lens with VR uh vibration stabilization plus the sensor stab you can handhold with pretty slow shutter speeds nowadays with all this new stabilization technology all right guys so I just wanted to show you in the IM menu here we have a couple new features now that we're in program Auto that have been unlocked so we have set picture control so in here you can set your picture control they have a bunch of different presets you can go in here and play with those if you want lot of options holy cow there's so many I'm just going to put it back to Auto for now and then we have white balance so you can go in here and you can change your white balance you have Auto One Z 1 and two for the at keep overall atmosphere you got reduce warm colors warm lighting you can go in here and you can change it to Natural Light Auto so you can see how it is changing the white balance it looks a little bit warmer a little bit more natural I kind of like this option better and you go through here and hard set your white balance if you want you can go all the way down to Kelvin here and you can choose your color temperature if you go down it'll give you the option to dial in the color temperature see how there's a little down arrow under the K there and now here is your presets so you can go in here to set custom white balances you got D1 through six so you can have six custom white balances in there which is quite nice just going to put it back to A1 there now the other option here I just wanted to show you is stabilization you have off on and sport mode so this actually was an option in auto mode I forgot to show you so Sports just going to be a little bit better if you're hand holding while walking with the camera and stuff custom control shooting you can go in here and you can change some stuff right now this is set to white balance this button on the front of the camera so if I press it you can see white balance comes up and then you can use the command wheel to change it so if you go in here I can actually set this and turn it off so I'm going to set that to off and the reason I'm setting it to off is because when I'm handholding this camera I keep hitting this button by accident and it's driving me crazy all right so before we go any further I just want to put it back into auto mode and I wanted to switch it to video mode here so you can see what it looks like when recording video so this is video mode now and we have it set for 4K 24 10bit I can show you those settings in the menu here all right guys so when it comes to selecting your video file type if you go in here this is where you have the different options now I'm using the 10bit option cuz it's the best quality but if you go over to the right one more you have the option for hlg which is the hybrid gamma and then you have nlog so enlog is just like shooting log you know like on the Sony cameras s log 3 it's called nlog on the Nikon cameras now my buddy Josh is like an expert when it when it comes to this more advanced video type stuff so he made an entire video on shooting enlog with Nikon cameras and stuff so I'm going to link that Below in the description area for those log Shooters but because this is a beginner guide I'm not going to cover shooting log in video because that's a in my opinion more advanced feature that would be like an advanced user guide type situation and then I have it set to 4K at 24p that's where those settings are that's all I did was change those and now if we hit the record button right here you can see it's now recording and you can just touch around the screen and it will focus it'll try to focus if there's enough light to wherever you touch and then to cancel that you can just hit the okay button and it'll default back to the non-touch autofocus and then you could stop recording and there you have it that's how it works in video mode then you have black and white mode as well so it's just putting it into a black and white option which is very cool so again you're going to have more power with program Auto so if we put it in P mode now we're in program Auto and we're set to black and white on the dial here if I go into the I you could see we have monochrome and there's a couple different monochrome options that we can choose from now so again a lot more power when in program Auto versus regular Auto let's just put it back into photo mode all right so now we're going to go up to shutter priority mode now this is the shutter dial here but because it's set to 1/3 of a stop there um you can control the shutter by this using the rear command dial the front sub command dial is still going to control exposure compensation but you can see here I'm manipulating the shutter speed and notice the iso is changing automatically to maintain the proper exposure so that's what auto ISO does so I can turn auto ISO off in the menu if I want to control ISO with the dial here but like I said sometimes it's easier to just use the exposure comp if I want to make it a little darker or a little brighter and just leaving it on auto because remember I'm just dialing in the shutter speed so if I'm shooting sports for example I'd wanted it like 1/ 1500th of a second uh just as an example that's how shutter priority works you slow the shutter way down if you want all the way to right about there ISO 100 so we can keep slowing it down and now it'll change the we're out of iso it can't go any lower but what it can do is it can change the aperture diaphragm and make it smaller which is going to increase the time so we can get up to 4 seconds 5 Seconds looks like we can get to like 13 seconds at F32 here using shutter priority mode all right guys so I got the Nikon ZF set up here in the lab and I have the shutter speed set to 1 second and I also have it set to shutter priority mode and you can see that on the top left here shutter priority mode in addition I just wanted to show show you I have the self timer set for 2 seconds so what I want to show you is how shutter speed can capture motion so because I have it set to one full second when I spin this and I take the photo it's going to capture the motion cuz remember the exposure is open for one full second so that was able to rotate several times you can see right there how it captured the motion pretty sweet right so now watch when we raise the shutter speed up so let me put it at like 1500th of a second so you can see now it's at 1500th of a second right here and you can also see the iso jumped to 6,400 because I have it on auto ISO so now when I spin this it should freeze the action and if we hit the playback menu you'll see there it is frozen so now if we go to the previous image you can see f11 one full second now this one 1500th of a second F4 so that is how you can use shutter priority mode to freeze the action or get blurry photos now of course if you want blurry photos you're really going to want it on a nice sturdy tripod here and you're going to want to set the self timer as well cuz any kind of camera movement will lead to the other stuff being blurry so if you want to capture motion you only want the stuff moving to be blurry in most cases whether it's blurry water streaking tail lights and so forth so let's put it in aperture priority mode really quick and now if we turn the rear dial the rear dial now now switched to the exposure comp and the front dial is what controls the aperture so the sub command dial is what's controlling aperture see that and it's automatically changing the iso because we have it set to auto ISO is enabled also note right here how you can see the aperture there in aperture priority mode and as I change it that number is changing you see the F number there all right so the aperture is controlling the aperture diaphragm and what that is it looks like a pupil inside the lens and that's what the aperture controls so the lower the number right now it's at f5.6 the lower that number the larger the aperture diaphragm is going to be you can see here on my old school manala lens the aperture diaphragm changing right so there's F16 then we're opening up the aperture so this is going to be fast wide open f1.4 this is going to be a slow aperture so this is going to be like F16 or whatever so this would be stopping it down this would be opening it up this is another really nice lens I have 35mm F 0.95 and I just wanted to show you this one because this has a rounded aperture diaphragm you can see it looks more round as opposed to the manala which chopped down into like a pentagon or whatever I have the 85 mm lens here and it's an f1.8 lens so the max aperture number for this lens is going to be f1.8 with the lens that I'm using here it's F5 .6 at this Zoom so if I change this to 24 mm I could then lower the aperture to F4 because that is the max aperture for this lens at 24 mm but again if I had the 85 mm mounted I could go as low as f1.8 here now aperture controls the size of the lens diaphragm but it also controls depth of field so the larger the apture the narrower the depth of field or the more blurry the background is so if you want blurry background s fast aperture lenses are going to be better for that purpose so portrait lenses for example this 85 mm F 1.8 is perfect because it'll give you that killer background separation I'll show you some sample photos and the background just blurs out now this lens is not going to be able to do that as good but this lens has a zoom range of 24 all the way to 200 which is incredible versatility so you know you get something with this zoom lens you get that crazy versatility this lens is more of a specialty lens optimized for like portraits food photography you know stuff like that flowers and things but this lens is kind of made for like doing everything now let me just switch lenses and show you a little more clearly how aperture priority works all right guys so now I have it switched to aperture priority mode and I just want to show you now I'm using the 885mm f1.8 lens and I actually have it at the minimum Focus distance in regards to that quarter on the screen which is kind of small looking at it from where you're looking at it but check it out I got a it focused on the quarter and again it's at f1.8 now if I turn the sub command aisle here you can watch the aperture change now more importantly watch the bouquet balls in the background change notice they're getting smaller because that is the depth of field changing as I change the aperture so remember the higher the aperture number the more depth of field so the less background blur so let's move to manual mode here so in manual mode you have full control of the camera and you can still use auto ISO in manual mode if you want to just so you know and it'll auto adjust for you making it a lot easier to use but by default the front dial is going to be the aperture so you could see the F number changing there that's the front dial and the rear dial is going to be shutter speed and you can see the shutter speed changing there so let me just hard set the iso in the menu here so we can I can show you a little bit better how this works all right so now I have the iso hard set to 100 but I can change it by turning the dial here if I want so now the iso is basically controlled by this dial I'm just going to lock it at 100 again so you can see now the scene is underexposed a lot and you can tell by the meter on the right hand side showing that it's underere exposed you see all those little dashes so what I could do is I could slow the shutter speed down and you can see how the exposure is coming back if you watch the meter every time I click it's going up a line see that so we could set it to 1/5 of a second for a proper exposure if we want but let's say we want it at 1/30th of a second now what we can do is we can raise the iso so let's raise the iso and same thing you could see those lines clicking away as we click the iso so somewhere right around there and you can see the exposure is looking balanced it's at zero now and all we did was raise the iso so that's one way to do it now we can also change the aperture so let's say we want this at f8 you see how it's a little bit darker so we have two options to brighten the exposure we can slow the shutter speed down and allow more time for light to gather and watch as we slow it down the brighter the screen is getting see that so we're just allowing more time the other option would be if we put this back to 130th would be to raise the iso up more so we can raise the iso up all the way to there approximately and that will be a proper exposure the other thing we can do if lower the iso let's put it back at like 800 or 640 so you can see it's underexposed so now we can open up the aperture which is the lens diaphragm so we're opening the pupil of the lens and you can see as we open it it's getting brighter and right around there is a proper exposure so that's how manual mode works it gives you like full power of the camera and you could use auto ISO or you can set the iso hard by using the dial up top whichever way you like same thing with shutter priority mode if you're in shutter priority mode you could use the dial if you want as opposed to the wheel on the back it's up to you um I'm just so used to using the dials on the back I tend to just do that by default all right so let's go into the menu here I just wanted to show you a couple of items I'm just going to go over the main stuff that I think is important file naming this is cool you can go in here and change the way that the file is named you could see the examples there so your secondary slot function would be if you're using dual cards so you can set that for redundancy you could set it for back up so it'll be duplicated you could set it so raw or jpeg goes to the other card for example lots of options there now image area again this is will put the camera into crop factor mode tone mode you need an a special TV or a monitor HDR monitor if you want to use hlg mode image quality I'm using raw plus jpeg raw recording if you want the best quality possible you can change that to lossless here the file sizes are much larger though at lossless now active Dynamic lighting you can turn that on and off that will just help with the highlights and the Shadows a little bit it'll just try to balance them out a little bit better long exposure noise reduction is turned off for photos I usually don't have that on high ISO noise reduction is set to normal you can turn that off or on as well or you can dial it in this stuff is all by default skin smoothing is a great option skin softening it's called here and I I really like using it it it's very helpful because it'll just make the skin look a little smoother so your family members might appreciate it if you turn that on especially the older ones portrait impression balance this is a interesting feature you can turn this on and then you have three different modes for when taking portraits and if you do enable it you could basically just use the directional pad to manipulate the different features that you have prioritized so it's pretty cool if you're doing portraits you can like easily manipulate the look of it just by touching the directional pad if you enable that feature photo flicker reduction this is helpful if you're having those flickering lights and stuff metering mode Matrix metering basically we'll use the entire sensor to try to figure out what the proper exposure is Center weighted metering will prioritize the center of the screen or the sensor and it'll use just that area to prioritize metering spot metering will use a very tiny little spot so spot metering is just going to use the very center of the center and you can see here now it's it's pretty much exposing for the background that's why it went so bright like that and now if I put it here it's going to prioritize the face if it sees the face but that's how spot metering works it just uses a tiny little area for the exposure to meter and the metering again is trying to figure out what proper exposure is now you can change this in the IM menu as well if we go here this is highlight press priority so this will prioritize the highlights this is great for like white frothy water or like anything bright that you might be shooting um something white you know a light bulb whatever highlight tone priority we'll make sure that those highlights are protected and then if we put it back into Matrix metering you could see the whole the whole scene is now like averaged out flash mode you're using a flash you get flash compensation release mode again we already talked about that that's single shot versus continuous you can go in here and change it though these are all the different options we talked about earlier hit that little button there to go back if you want and we got autofocus area all these settings that we saw in the IM menu are also in here in the menu you can turn that on if you're using manual focus lenses it's very helpful vibration reduction you can go in here you can turn it off you can change it to sport mode if you want so vibration reduction will basically when this is turned on it'll prioritize the focus point and try to make sure that that area is as stable as possible it just prioritizes where your focusing as to how the vibration reduction algorithm on this camera works pretty interesting feature Auto bracketing this is extremely powerful you can go in here and turn it on and this is how you would take multiple photos at different exposures and you could use it for a number of options so you can see here Auto exposure but you can set it for white balance you can set it for Flash this is the active dynamic range option you can bracket with that as well but basically what I would use if I was doing HDR photography is I would use the AE option I would do like that that's how I would have it set two stops three photos and then I would turn this on you have to go right or left to turn it on see that on and now you can see it took three different exposures there so if I wanted to do that all at once I can just go to the IM menu and I can go to continuous and you just hold it down and it's going to take all three bracketed shots or you can set the self timer so if I go in here set the self timer for like 2 seconds so now I'm using bracketing with self timer that's how you take hdr photos with a super stable camera you're not pressing the shutter and moving it in between so put it on single if I go back into the menu here we got Auto bracketing on you just go right or left to turn that off but that's how I would recommend setting it for basic HDR now of course you could do more exposures or whatever you want to do so multiple exposure it basically creates like a composite image and you can manipulate it using the different overlay modes HDR overlay this is basically Auto HDR so the camera will automatically take multiple exposures and combine them and you can actually have it save the individual pictures as raw files if you want if you turn that feature on right there see that I highly recommend trying that and playing with it Interval Timer and this is for Interval shooting so this is great for time lapses and stuff like that and you can go in here and dial in the settings as you see fit but basically you just got to go in there and you can hit start and it's got a start date and time interval so it's one second intervals how many shots is it going to take electronic shutter you can have it focused before each shot if you want to Let's Go Back Time Lapse video so you can go in here and you can do a time-lapse video and this is where you can go and set the different settings camera will do all the work for you which is very nice makes it nice and easy let's go back so Focus Shift shooting is great for focus stacking if you're doing macro photography basically you'll set where you start and it'll keep taking photos all the way to Infinity Focus however many shots is required and you can go in here and again set the number of shots Focus step width all sorts of stuff like that so pixel shift shooting is that super high resolution mode so you can go in here and you can turn it on you can set the number of shots and you can combined all these images on the computer and get a ridiculously high resolution image so that's what that features for and that's the end of the photo menu so if we go into video I'm just going to switch the camera to video mode menu so very similar to the photo menu here it's just specialized and optimized for video which I like I like having the separate menus that's it makes it way easier to find what you're looking for but notice how you have a lot of the same features you know file naming and so forth destination image area if you want to switch it to crop mode you got ISO settings white balance picture control a lot of the same stuff for photo mode we got skin softening again there you go portrait impression balanced you have that feature in here as well video flicker reduction it's set to Auto by default you got the metering mode Focus mode full-time autofocus is what AFF stands for I recommend just leaving it there autofocus area I'm going to change that to Auto area AF so it's using the whole area now we got autofocus detection here I'm just going to switch this to people only because I noticed the camera was picking up some other stuff when I just want to limit it to people vibration reduction is turned on and if you go in there one of the options is actually to have it set the same as the photo settings which is pretty cool or you could just set video to sport mode if you want you know just default it to that now this is a more advanced vibration stabilization it's like extra you can enable it here but it will crop in so if I go for example just looking at it if I go to the IM men menu here so right here is the electronic vibration option so if you turn it on you see how it crops in so that's what it does it crops in on the sensor a little bit but it'll give you better stabilization especially if hand holding while walking for example I'm just going to turn it off for now so there's two separate stabilization options in here you got the digital and then you have the actual you know sensor stab and the lens stabilization if the lens offers it also note you have the option for wind noise reduction in the uh video IM menu microphone sensitivity you could just dial in the microphone there these are microphone options here just leaving this stuff all at default mic Jack plug-in power set to on you can turn time code on if you're using you know this camera in like a movie type situation where everyone's using time code all right guys so now we're in the custom settings area and this looks like the pencil over here and this is very deep there's so much options in this camera that it's a little bit overwhelming so I'm not going to go over everything guys I'm just going to go through it pretty quick and I'm going to point out some of the stuff that I think you should pay attention to if you need to change those settings depending on what you're doing you should already have a really good idea on how to use this camera at this point but again this is getting a little bit deeper into the menu so let me just go through here no so Focus if we go over to the right these are all the different Focus options and like I said this camera has so much power it is remarkable so you have different autofocus priority selection options so you can have it set to release it's referring to the shutter button or Focus so you can prioritize what the what the release is doing as far as autofocus continuous now we have autofocus single shot you can set it to the focus point or when you release the shutter those are your options there Focus tracking with lock on you can change this if you want delayed or quick Focus points used you can actually limit the number of focus points so you don't see so many of them on the screen and stuff like that it's it's just one of those options in here you can store points by orientation what that means is horizontal versus vertical so you can go in here and you can change the amount of autofocus areas that show up when you go into the autofocus area option from the imenu for example so you can see how they're all checked you can actually turn some of this stuff off if you want that's what that's referring to let's go back focus Point wrap around you might remember it from your DSLR camera that's how it used to work with dslrs back in the day with the phase detection autofocus Point display that's turned on by default autofocus continuous I'm going to turn that on also so this way you can see when you're in autofocus continuous what it's actually tracking sometimes it's really hard to tell autofocus assist Illuminator that's the light here it'll light up in low light situations that's on by default focus peaking is that overlay that shows up when using manual focus it's a nice tool for video when using manual focus lenses focus peaking will actually they'll like it'll like light up a color where the focus is and it'll give you it'll help you like see where the focus is all right so here's focus peaking I'm going to turn that on right here set to Red so now when I turn the focus you'll see notice how the red is lighting up on the corner that is focus peaking so it'll tell you when you have the subject in focus and you can also look down on the bottom left for that manual focus indicator when there's a circle that's when you know you got it so that's how focus peaking works and you can change the color of it and stuff as well in here notice how it's set to Red you got yellow blue white and so forth all right so now we're in metering and exposure so you can see if we go out one we're now in B and if we go over one you could see we're in B so it's just going to continue to go through all the settings if we just keep going down so you can change your ISO step value by default it is 1/3 of a stop but you can make it one full stop if you want some people prefer that Matrix metering face detection so that's on what that means is it's going to prioritize the face when using the Matrix metering so that's remember the whole sensor is Matrix metering with a little bit of a priority in the center but if it sees a face in there it's going to prioritize the face so that's what this is I recommend leaving it on but if you're wondering you know why the exposure is not changing when you're moving the camera around if it sees a face it's going to prioritize that face and try to lock the exposure for the face now you remember how I said um the center weight average metering uses the center area now here it's asking you how much do you want the average small standard so I'm just going to leave that at default so again you can just fine-tune the metering mode crazy power on this camera all right so now we're on C here shutter release button Auto exposure lock it's set to off by default now you might want to enable this so what it'll do is it'll lock the exposure when you have this shutter button half pressed like when I'm pressing it like this the exposure will be locked and that's what that feature does you can also make it so it stays locked during the burst mode so if you take the burst the exposure is not going to change during that burst so self timer here it's just giving you the options for self timer you can actually change how much time there is between each self timer shot I like that power off delay this is a really good feature if you are using the camera and you don't want the screen to turn off you can make these numbers longer so by default the camera will just turn off to save the battery life again you can manipulate that stuff in here all right so this is the continuous low mode shooting speed and we I showed you this in the IM menu but if you go to the right you can you can actually change how many shots per second in this mode if you want to Max burst shots 200 you can change that you can lower it 200 is the maximum pre-release capture this is an awesome awesome feature and what it does is it'll utilize the camera buffer if you have this enabled and it'll depending on how much time you have set here it'll actually capture images before you take them so when you press the shutter and start taking photos It'll like go back in time and it'll take you know whatever the shots before that that you never even took it's called pre-burst it's great for for example if you're filming birds or shooting birds in a tree and you want to get the bird like just leaving the nest so you're just waiting and then when the bird actually takes flight you hit the shutter button down and it'll get like the 10 shots before that so you'll actually get it leaving the nest sort of thing this is great for if your kid's going to kick a soccer ball or hit a baseball bat or a softball you get it going you see the pitch coming you can actually wait to when your kid hits the ball for example and then start shooting and you'll get the shots before like the whole swing and everything this is a pretty Advanced feature of using multiple cameras you can actually syn the shutters up now here is the shutter option so you have mechanical shutter electronic front curtain and auto I recommend just leaving it on auto for the most part but that's where you can go to change that if you need to Extended shutter speeds in manual mode you can enable this here so this will allow you to set it from a minimum of 30 seconds all the way up to 900 seconds so that's pretty powerful feature there and again if you hit the zoom out on the back of the camera it's also the question mark it'll give you more information that's what I just hit there so this is where you can go and you can set the formats if you want these are the different options you have crop factor 1: one or 16x9 file number sequence I recommend leaving that on Starlight View now this is for astrophotography and if you enable it it'll make the screen a little bit easier to see so you could use this anytime but it's particularly useful for astrophotography so warm display colors you can actually enable this and in lower light situations it'll just warm things up view all in continuous mode going to leave that on default image frame default grid type this is where you can go and you can change the different grids virtual Horizon a couple different options here you got this option here or this option I prefer type A this is where you can go and you can customize what is viewed on the display when you hit the display button and cycle through so these are the different displays I can turn off this one for example I could uncheck it or whatever or this one I could uncheck cuz I know I never use it for example now this is for the viewfinder so it's referring to the actual viewfinder this time and you could change the display of the viewfinder as well now we're into flash sync speed you can go in here if you guys are doing flash photography bunch of stuff for that auto flash ISO control modeling flash is set to on by default this is Flash bracketing bracketing order flash burst priority now here we have customized the IM menu so notice we're in the F1 if we go down we're in the controls now I'm just going back to the left so we're in the pencil and we're in F for controls and customize the IM menu so we can go in here and change this like if I'm never going to use picture control for example I can change it to ISO if I want there's a bunch of different options in here I could change it to I could put skin smoothing in there let's just put skin smoothing in there that's pretty much how you do it so then you got the quality size which is going to relate to both photo and video the custom control option I can change that to something if I want metering you got airplane mode if you never use airplane mode you can use that slot for something else so here we are in the video customize area and I could go in here and customize the IM menu if I want these are the options in here and you can see I can set this to let's put it at skin softening or something so now we have skin softening enabled now custom controls is where you can go and change the custom controls Focus point lock I'm going to leave that off limited AF area mode selection this is where you can go and you could limit the area modes if you choose to autofocus speed now this is a very powerful feature this is your autofocus speed so you can make it slower if you want and it's very helpful in certain situations and faster if you're trying to track a moving subject like sports somebody running towards you or whatever so another cool thing about autofocus speed is if you're doing Focus transitions from like a subject to the background and so forth you can make that really really slow and it'll be a nice slow transition speed Now tracking sensitivity This Is How likely it is to switch from one subject to another so if you want it very sensitive set it to high if you want it more locked on stuff I would set it to low and it'll be less likely to switch subjects now here's some power Zoom options if you're using power zoom lenses which I don't have but that's there's options in the menu for that zebra is a very helpful tool for exposing when using log in particular log shooting formats because the image is a lot flatter and it's harder to tell what the exposure is and that's what view assistant is as well it'll help with that you got grid brightness information histogram so you can change your histogram into wave forms this is where you can change it like this I have a large waveform box which is very helpful for video so you can change the shooting display that's just what you're going to see on the screen if you want you can dial that in same thing with the viewfinder record frame display that's when the whole screen has that rectangle on it when you start recording and now we're back to A1 so if we go down into the playback area here you can see we're in the playback area now these are all the different options for playback so you got delete you could select pictures delete them organize them you can limit the playback folder if you want you can change what is displayed as far as Focus point I like to have the focus Point uh displayed and then if you're shooting groups of photos burst shooting it'll Mark the first shot in a series which is very helpful I also want the exposure information and now if we go back into the play menu here and I select an image let's just select that one let's zoom out and cycle through the display options so now if we hit the display button you can see the exposure information before that wasn't an option so you could just see this and it wouldn't you didn't really know how the camera was set so now that we have that set we can see the option here and that's where it is playback display options so highly recommend checking the ones that I have checked but you can add more if you want you can have all sorts of information in there delete pictures from both slots picture review if you have that enabled when you take a photo it'll show up on the screen for like two seconds by default right it'll show up on the Monitor and that's you might be used to point and shoot cameras a lot of them by default when you take a photo it'll come up on the screen for like two seconds that's picture review so you can enable that there auto rotate pictures that's horizontal and vertical it'll just auto rotate for you and that's it for the playback menu so if we go into the setup menu here this is where you can go to format your memory card you got your language option time zone monitor brightness again very important for when you're outside and you need a bright screen we got monitor color balance viewfinder brightness so you can change the brightness of the viewfinder as well and you got color balance for the viewfinder so the finder display size so when you're looking through the viewfinder you can actually change the size of it you can make it a little bit smaller if you want by changing it to small this is useful if you set it to small like if you have glasses and you're a little bit further from the viewfinder you can't see the edges of the viewfinder sometimes like because you can't get your eye right up there you can make it smaller and it'll actually make the screen smaller so it's a little easier to see the viewfinder from like a little bit further away that's what that feature is and um it's very useful for somebody that has glasses on like me autofocus fine-tuning options you can go in here and you can fine-tune for specific lenses if you want to that will be helpful sometimes lenses will front Focus or rear Focus that's where you can go and dial that stuff in you can save Focus positions if you want save Zoom positions if you want Auto temperature cutout I like to have that set for high and the camera will record longer before it overheats it it you could record for a long time but in 4k 60 it's going to get pretty hot you can clean the image sensor in here if you want it'll just like shake it you can set it to automatic cleaning if you want as well so when you turn the camera off it'll like Auto clean you can do the reference photo for dust on the sensor if you need to pixel mapping will check for dead pixels and stuff so it's can do that every once in a while as a maintenance thing image comment you can add comments to images it's pretty amazing copyright information so you can go in here and you can add copyright information and it'll automatically embed it into your photos voice memos you can go in here you got voice voice memo option voice memo control camera sounds beep is off by default but you can turn that on and it'll beep when you start focusing and stuff like watch hear that so that's off by default because it's annoying so I recommend leaving it off but if you need it on that's where you can go to turn it on so here's silent mode you can enable that right here if you want camera is pretty quiet as it is but if you went perfectly silent that's where that is touch controls this is where you can turn the touch controls on and off and you also have a glove mode so if you're out in the freezing cold and you're like fat fingering it with gloves you can turn it on and it'll adjust the sensitivity for you and make it a little easier self-portrait mode you can turn that on and off that's where this feature is so when you have the camera in self-portrait mode it actually behaves a little bit differently because it assumes you're using it in selfie mode so you might want to turn that off I turned it off because I prefer having full power when in selfie mode but it it'll automatically put a self timer on there and a couple other things it's on by default when I first booted this camera up just so you guys know here's your HDMI settings USB connection priority you can just default that to different options if you want battery info power delivery I have that turned on energy saving photo mode you might want to turn that on it'll just shut the camera down quicker so the battery is less likely to you know slowly drain if you're just like farting around or whatever now this slot empty release lock so so this basically means the camera will take photos without a memory card in there you may or may not want to do that so you can turn that off if you want here so this way you don't accidentally start taking photos with no memory card it it's it's up to you this is where you can save and load menu settings so once you get your camera configured exactly how you want you can save it to the memory card and then upload it to another camera and all the settings will just copy over reset all settings this should set the camera back to factory default but it doesn't seem to do that because the time was still set on mine now firmware version this is currently at firmware version 1.10 in case you guys are wondering just so you know where this camera is at the time of this tutorial we scroll down we have Network options now this is where you can put it in Airplane Mode connect to Smart device this is all that stuff is in here Wireless modes connect to computer connect to FTP server other cameras Atmos air glue Bluetooth options USB options you got router frequency band options and Mac address all that stuff's in there now down here is my menu this is a great spot because in here is where you can go and add items so if I want to add items from the shooting menu for example I can just keep going to the right and I can scroll down so I'm going to do ISO sensitivity settings I'm going to add that and if we go back you can see it's right at the top so we got ISO sensitivity settings I can go in there and turn off auto ISO really easy now if I want to and that's pretty much how that works like I said I didn't go over every single feature in the menu there but I went over most of them just to really give you an idea on how to really harness the power of this incredible camera all right guys so get out there start taking some photos taking some video with your awesome Nikon ZF and if you have any questions please feel free to comment in the comment section below I also included a couple of links for a few accessories that I think are like must haves uh particularly the grip you really got to get a grip for this I think it's just too hard to hold this camera with the limited grip it's just too heavy all right guys that about wraps up this video I will catch up with you next time take care [Music]