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Author: David D. Busch
ISBN : 1598639056
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Welcome to the D90, Nikon's newest full-featured--yet compact and affordable--digital SLR camera. David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography shows you how to maximize your camera's robust feature set, blazing fast automatic focus, the real-time preview system Live View, HDTV movie-making capabilities, and the Retouch mode that allows you to edit your picture in the camera, to take outstanding photos. You'll learn how, when, and, most importantly, why to use each of the cool features and functions of your camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Nikon D90's exposure modes, focus controls, and electronic flash options. You'll also find loads of helpful information and tips on choosing lenses, flash units, and software products to use with your new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your Nikon D90, and use it like a pro!
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- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR; 1 edition (May 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1598639056
- ISBN-13: 978-1598639056
- Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 9.1 inches
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I wanted a book that explained in depth how to use my new Nikon D90. David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photographydid exactly that. It's well organized and describes everything in a logical way, so you can familiarize yourself with your camera, and then go on and master every control and option. There are nine chapters.
-Chapter 1: This is a quick start to using the camera, from initial setup to an introduction to drive modes, exposure modes, metering, and focus options.
-Chapter 2: Nikon D90 Roadmap. This chapter is a 35-page guided tour of every single feature and control of the camera. It shows you how to use each button and dial, and how they affect your pictures.
-Chapter 3: This chapter is worth the price of the book alone. It is 90 pages long, about three or four times as large as similar chapters in other books, listing each menu option and telling you why each is important. That's what I needed. Don't just tell me what choices I have, tell me why I need to choose one over the other!
-Chapter 4: This book is about exposure, histograms, etc. I have an entire book on this topic, but this chapter explains it better.
-Chapter 5: Advanced shooting. The author has an exhaustive section on autofocus, which I have found to be one of the trickiest aspects of this camera to master. I finally understand exactly how phase detection and contrast detection and Live View work.
-Chapter 6: Wow. A big chapter just on the various Nikon lenses available. I couldn't live without this.
-Chapter 7: This one covers the mysteries of light and has an introduction to the Nikon Creative Lighting System.
I bought this book hoping to easily find and use information I need to take pictures and to speed me through the learning curve. Overall, my problem is that it is very difficult to find information, due to an organization that does not work for me, and a wholly inadequate index.
The book has a similar organization as the user manual - it describes the camera. It would be a better book if it described tasks and how to do them, thus complementing the user manual with a different organization and a thorough index. In fact, I find the user manual much more helpful for learning to use the camera.
I came up with three problems I needed to know quickly to use my camera, and the rest of this review is about how it went trying to use the book to get the information.
Problem 1: First-time Setup
If I was writing a book like this, I would put setup options at the beginning of Chapter 1, because that's where people usually start, and essential setup is a good place to start. There isn't one in this book, so I learned, the hard way, that each time I took the memory card out of the camera to unload the pictures, it reset the sequence number back to 1.
I suspect most users would prefer that each picture have a unique sequence number that continues to the next number when you return the memory card to the camera. I don't know why Nikon made resetting each time the default, but at least there is an option to change it to how I expected it to work.
A Top Ten essential setup list should be the first thing in chapter 1. Google on "Ken Rockwell D90 Camera Settings" (without quotes) and you'll find a longer list like I have in mind.
In this book?