| Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | 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! | Average Customer Rating: Great Book Very good book with great illustrations and an easy language. I recommended without doubts.
Own a D90? Buy this book. If you are a novice like myself and own a D90, you should buy this book. At 2o bucks it's a no brainer. Excelent Book!! Excelent Book. It explains in details all functions of the camera in a very easy way. It does not substitute the actual D90 User's Manual. Perfect for first time SLR users Being a Scandinavian and not having English as first language can often be a bit troublesome when looking for good non-fiction books. This book never offered any problems in this regard. It was orderly and logical in it's layout and I had no trouble reading it from cover to cover.
I would especially recommend this book to all people that buy the Nikon D90 as their first SLR. Being one of those people myself, this guide proved to be exactly what I needed including both camera specific information as well as offering pointers on how to use all functionality in real life photography.
Using this guide together with one of Scott Kelby's 'Digital Photography' books would make a perfect starter kit! Not necessarily the best to start with Because the Busch book claimed it was so much better than the owner's manual, I decided to actually start with the Busch when I got my new camera. After becoming thoroughly confused, however, I went back to the owner's manual (the thicker one plus the little quick guide) and everything was vastly clearer and easier. The Busch book just doesn't get the newbie taking pics quickly at all.
Busch's structure--spending a HUGE hunk on "setting up" the camera, while constantly referring to later sections of the book--just didn't work well for me. Busch's book is also not good for just picking it up and perusing parts and segments...It needs to be read straight through in a concentrated way. Which isn't bad--just not what I was looking for necessarily.
That said, there are of course parts which are informative and the pics are nice. Not a bad book to have, but not great for the newbie. | |