Trial Run
When I bought my Nikon D750, it was nearly a week after getting it home that I actually used it. You're probably wondering why I waited so long to take my first shot. Surely, I must have been excited to snap away, couldn't wait to give it its maiden outing. I was eager but I wanted to know as much about the camera as I could before taking my very first shot. The D750 was my first full-frame camera since my Minolta X-700, and it had more features than my Nikon D7200, which I had purchased less than five years earlier. I wanted to know what I was doing before I did anything. The manuals for the Nikon cameras were thick. At more than 500 pages, the D750 user's manual was packed full of instructions and tips. And while I didn't read it from cover to cover, I made sure I knew how to use the custom features and could feel comfortable using it in manual mode, as well as with the settings with which I was already familiar. There was also a French user's manual, equally...
