 | Nikon D40/D40x Digital Field Guide |
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Product Description
Nikon D40/D40x Digital Field Guide is filled with everything you need to know inorder to take amazing photographs using your Nikon D40 or Nikon D40x. This full-color portable guide walks you through the essential controls, features, and functions of your Nikon D40 or D40x digital SLR using step-by-step instructions and full-color images of each menu screen.This robust guide not only shows you how to adjust white balance, autofocus, exposure, and choose lenses, it also teaches you when and why you should adjust each of these key settings. The Nikon D40/D40x Digital Field Guide goes beyond camera settings to offer you a refresher guide to the principles of digital photography, covering the essentials of lighting, composition, and exposure. Filled with amazing examples, this book also presents you with a variety of tips and tricks to capturing portraits, candids, sports, travel, macro photography, and much more. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction. Quick Tour: Shooting Your First D40/D40x Picture. Part I: Using the Nikon D40/D40x. Chapter 1: Exploring the Nikon D40/D40x. Chapter 2: Nikon D40/D40x Essentials. Chapter 3: Setting Up Nikon D40/D40x. Part II: Creating Great Photos with the Nikon D40/D40x. Chapter 4: Exposure Essentials. Chapter 5: All About Lenses. Chapter 5: All About Lenses. Chapter 6: Working with Light. apter 7: P
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Picture yourself capturing the perfect shot
A new world of photographic experiences awaits you as you move up to a digital SLR with your Nikon D40 or D40x. Get started with your new D40 or D40x right away with this guide's Quick Tour. Ready to customize your camera's settings? Chapter 3 tells you how. Want advice on getting perfect shots of sunsets, landscapes, people, or your son's soccer game? Check Chapter 7. But whatever you do, get out there and take pictures. And take this book along.
- Identify and use all your camera's controls and features
Discover how lenses work and select the ones you need
Learn to fix minor problems, including red-eye, by using the Retouch menu
Get complete recipes for shooting events, fireworks, night scenes, landscapes, people, pets, water, action, and more
Find out how to download your pictures and troubleshoot common camera problems
About the Author
David D. Busch has operated a commercial photo studio, shot sports for a newspaper, and spent more than twenty years as a roving photojournalist. He has shared his experience in more than 90 books, including the bestselling Nikon D80 Digital Field Guide, Digital Travel Photography Digital Field Guide, and Digital SLR Cameras and Photography For Dummies, all from Wiley.
Customer Reviews
Handy and Useful
The book does a MUCH better job of describing the settings then the manual. And that's why I bought it. It IS a bit of a technical read, which is VERY difficult for me to stay focused on, but this book was able to give me a little bit more info on my new camera as well as even offer up some photography basics. I especially recommend this book to folks who are fairly new to the digital photography scene.
Not bad
This book is ok, but there are better ones out there. It's a quality publication and advances where the owners manual stops. For someone already familiar with basic photography (use ASM always) then this book probably won't offer you very much. If you're lost when you use manual settings on the D40 this book helps a little, but you may walk away still not getting it. Gets 4 stars because he could have been more conceptual when discussing the art of manually using a camera.
Just Read the Manual that Comes with the Camera!
I think this book should have been the manual for the camera, because it has nice pictures and it is pretty clear. However, i don't think it has any additional information, so I can't recommend it.
