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Nikon D850 Setup Guide (How to: Back Button Focus, Frame Rate, Image Quality, and more)
Feb 4, 2021
When I first got my Nikon D850, I struggled to get some of the similar settings and functions that I had on the Nikon D750. The two biggest were back button focus and changing the focus selector points.
I made this setup guide as a way to cover some of the settings I changed when I first got used to my new D850. Hopefully this video tutorial will save you some time with your new camera! :)
Here are some topics covered in this video about the Nikon D850:
- Back Button Focus
- Change Focus Selector Points
- Change Image Quality
- Change Video Quality
- Adjust AF Modes and work in Live Mode
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hey what's going on youtube it's mike
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here from filtergrade
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and in this video i want to talk about
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some of the stuff i did
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when i got the nikon d850 i got it about
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a year back
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after having the d750 for a couple of
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years so i was already used to
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you know the nikon full frame settings
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and feel but
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when i first got the d850 it wasn't
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really easy
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to change some of the things i was used
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to like back button focus
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and auto focus like the selector points
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specifically
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so i wanted to make this video as sort
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of like a setup guide
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for anyone who got the d850 and wanted
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some tips on how to get going without
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you know
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stressing over looking up each
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individual setting so i'm just gonna go
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over like five to seven things that i
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changed when i first got the camera
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that helped me be more efficient and
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just get into shooting faster without
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having to adjust it
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every time i went out for a new project
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so the first setting i really wanted to
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change and fix was back button focus
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because i couldn't easily figure that
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out
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on the d850 so i'm going to show you how
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i figured that out
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if you go to the playback menu and then
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select the fourth one down
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custom setting menu then choose
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autofocus
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and then eight down is af activation
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click this and then change af on
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to just af on only and make sure that's
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enabled
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now as long as that's enabled you'll see
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it on this screen it says off for some
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reason on the other screen
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so once you have auto focus set up then
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cut into
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controls and look for
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number one custom control assignment and
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then scroll down to af on
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and you can change which button it is if
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you want the back button
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just af on that's the one i use just
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select the first one make sure that's
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enabled
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you can also have it as the af area mode
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button
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or any other button but just select that
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and that will ensure that auto focus is
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on for back button focus so you can
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quickly do that
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the next thing i'm going to show you how
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to do is quickly change your settings to
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raw or jpeg
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or shoot both if you need backups for
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some reason
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so if you go into the photo shooting
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menu
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and then scroll down into image quality
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here's where you have all the different
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options if you want to shoot both
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the first few are raw and jpeg and you
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have to make sure that you have enough
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space for it or you can also have
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multiple sd cards with the d850 or if
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you just want to shoot jpeg
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you can select one of those you can even
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also shoot tips
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all right now i'm going to show you a
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few more things to do with autofocus
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that help me uh especially with
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selection of like points
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this is you know obviously dependent on
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what you need or what you want to do
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so if you go here you can choose between
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15 and 55
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but then the way to actually change them
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when you're looking through the
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viewfinder
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is through a button on the front okay so
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you'll see the af
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and the m button here if you want to
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ever change it to manual focus you just
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swipe it down
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and then you just adjust your lens make
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sure it's an af
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and then hold this button down
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while you're holding the af button down
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on the left side make sure you scroll
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the front scroll wheel
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and look through the viewfinder and
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you'll be able to see
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the different settings and the different
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amounts
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after shooting a bit at fashion week i
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wanted to learn a little more about
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video
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so i had to learn a few settings to
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change the frame rate or the quality of
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the videos based on my sd card
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so if you go in the third tab the movie
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shooting menu and then select frame size
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and frame rate
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this is where you can scroll through and
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shoot in any different size
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if you really need high quality you can
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shoot as big as 38 3840 by 2160
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but for my videos i just shoot 1920 by
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1080p
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and 24 frames the next thing i changed
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was the movie quality setting
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you don't really need it in high quality
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unless you are going for
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you know the absolute top so normal is
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fine and then last but not least
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choose between mov or mp4 mov is usually
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easier for me to work with so i just
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choose that
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something i needed to learn once i was
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doing more interviews
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and live videos were the auto focus
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settings
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on the live mode so the easy way to
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change this is
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use the left af button again and press
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it down
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and then you'll notice the aff light up
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and i'm going to change it back to afs
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in single and then you use the front
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scroll wheel and go through and that's
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how you can change the different af area
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modes
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for live view so they're all different
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settings you can also you can get wide
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area
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you can get face priority
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normal area pinpoint area
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and then a few others like subject
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tracking
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and so all these things are good for
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different things whether you want to
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focus on portraits
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handheld shots or something specific in
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your frame
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so those are just good to know it's just
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the f button on the left and then scroll
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with the front scroll wheel
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and you can easily change that and if
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you want to change the af mode you
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scroll with the back scroll wheel
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between aff and s alright so thanks for
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checking out these tips
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if you have any other questions about
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the nikon d850 leave a comment below and
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i'd be happy to make some more specific
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tutorials
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otherwise i appreciate you watching the
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channel go ahead and subscribe and leave
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a like if you'd like to
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and we'll see you next time
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