David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D90 (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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From the Author Just the essentials for your D90When a command card doesn't provide enough information, and a small camera guide has too much padding, pull this Compact Field Guide for your Nikon D90 out of your camera bag and get the advice and recommendations you need quickly.I don't believe you can have too much of a good thing, but readers who have been using my 400-page in-depth guide to master their Nikon D90 have asked me to distill the most essential information into a portable field guide for on-the-go reference. In the 156 pages of this lay-flat, spiral-bound book, you'll find in-depth descriptions of every control, menu option, and capability of the Nikon D90. Each choice is accompanied by my recommendations and a description of when you should or should not use a particular setting. There are seven no-nonsense chapters:Quick Setup Guide. You -- or someone you loan your D90 to -- can set up the key exposure, autofocus, and other settings in minutes with the step-by-step instructions in this chapter.Streetsmart Nikon D90 Roadmap. Can't recall what a particular button or dial does, or don't remember how to access bracketing or another feature you seldom use? This chapter has photos of every control and a description of how to use it.Playback and Shooting Menu Settings. Command cards and cheat sheets provide a menu listing and a recap of the Playback and Shooting options. This chapter explains how to use them, too.Custom, Setup, Retouch, and My Menu Settings. You may not use these menus quite as often, which is all the more reason to carry along my instructions on how to use them.Using Flash. Reference guide to working with the D90's internal flash, and Nikon's external units.Shooting D-Movies. I've managed to squeeze in instructions on using the D90's movie-making capabilities, along with tips on shooting better movies in the field.Shooting Tips. Pages and pages of tables listing Shooting Menu and Custom Setting Menu recommendations for a variety of situations, such as stage performances, HDR, long exposures, landscapes, and portraits.I know many Nikon D90 owners are buying both my "big book" and this Compact Field Guide, so they're equipped with the information they need whether at home or on-the-go. Read more About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
Like Alec Baldwin said in "Beetlejuice": "This thing reads like stereo instructions!" That's how most camera manuals are. They tell you the technicalities of how the buttons and switches work, but they don't tell you how on earth that translates into good photos.This book is what you want to learn why bracketing is important for HDR photos, why you would use Exposure Lock, and the like. It's not a book on photography, like the Dummies guide, for instance, but it does explain each setting and what kind of photos it's meant for. I also learned about the calendar feature on my Nikon D90 - who knew there was a calendar?This book is spiral bound, with a cover over the spiral, so it's easy to fold back to the page you're reading with a flashlight while your camera is on the tripod, to figure out how to photograph the moon. The pages are laminated, so pluff mud from the marsh inlet where you're trying to take shots of Great Egrets doesn't mess up the book. It's also easy to follow with simple explanations.
