The self-timer

Most people have used a self timer on a camera.…You know you balance the camera on a rock or something and you point it at your…friends then you set it off and run back and try to get in the frame and look…natural before the camera takes picture.…It works the same way on your digital camera.…The self timer is a release mode on the D7000.…So to change to it, I want to turn my release mode dial I've to press the Lock…Down all the way over here to this little picture of a Clock that's kind of the…universal self timer icon.…Now all that happens, is I half press my Shutter button to meter and focus just…like I normally would.…

Once it's locked my press it the rest of the way and now this Lamp starts lighting.…It starts flashing to indicate that I am in self timer mode.…Now as when I would be running around in front of the camera it goes solid two…seconds before it's about to take the picture and then the shutter fires.…There are lot of ways you can customize the self timer, you can change the…amount of time that it takes between when you press the shutter button when it…