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Anyone who is an experienced digital photography student will tell you that more often than not, they are using their digital SLR camera away from their home or the classroom. And while they may feel like they've got the basics of their camera down, wouldn't it be nice for them to have some sort of a reference with to take when they're on the go? "David Busch's Compact Guide For The Nikon D90" is a portable reference guide that goes beyond the standard field guide. Featuring both the basics - lists of controls, settings, and menu commands - and so much more, including depth-of-field tables, distance charts, and recommended settings for various shooting environments. With this guide on hand students can confident in knowing they have all the information they need at their fingertips. They can just slip the book into your camera bag and go!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
Brilliant little book which can be carried around for when you forget how to do something and very easy to view with the spiral binding as it lays flat or can be folded open on the page you are reading.
Format:Spiral-bound
I bought my D90 about 9 months ago and am reasonably comfortable with the camera. I was looking for a guide book that would help me improve my photography skills from a D90 perspective. I read the above write up - was a little sceptical of it but bought the book. Having received it, there is very little in it that isnt covered in the manual that comes with the camera. Based on that, my advice would be, if your looking for an informative well written guide to pick up where the owners manual cuts off and builds on your existing knowledge to help you take better shots with your D90 - then this is not your book. If you've lost your owners manual and want an expensive replacement - you've hit paydirt
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A valuable portable resource
8 Dec 2010
Format:Spiral-bound
If you want to use an unfamiliar setting, it's frustrating to have to guess which option would be best to achieve the effect you're trying for. David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D90, 1st Edition is a perfect reference to slip in your pack. In the past, photographers seeking portable information have had to choose between small versions of the manual that comes with the camera, or those laminated cheat sheets that fold out into six index card sized with one-sentence summaries of most of the menu settings. Busch's Compact Field Guide series provides clear, easy to understand guidance in a most convenient format. Its contents include:
Chapter 1. Quick Setup Guide. Hand your camera and this book to any newbie, and they'll be off and shooting in minutes. It shows how to adjust the viewfinder to their vision, format a memory card, choose the right exposure mode (with a paragraph describing each mode and when to use it), how -- and why -- to select a metering mode, followed by lucid explanations of selecting autofocus, autofocus area modes, white balance, and ISO settings. There's a quick guide to navigating through and reviewing the images you've just shot, as well as a quick guide to flash. These are just the basics, and the typical shooter will probably refer to this chapter just once, when they begin using the camera.
Chapter 2. Nikon D90 Roadmap. This 28-page chapter is filled with large photographs of the camera from multiple views, with a paragraph describing what each and every control does, and why it's used. The manual furnished with the D90 gives you black and white drawings and cross references to multiple pages deep in the manual.
Chapter 3. Playback and Shooting Menu settings. Here's where Busch's Compact Field Guide excels. Unlike the command cards, small guidebooks, and manual packaged with the camera, Busch offers complete descriptions of each possible setting, including the rationale for using particular options. The book is spiral bound so it can lay flat while you read the instructions and adjust your camera simultaneously. Small illustrations show the menus in question, but you'll use them only to confirm that you're "in the right place" as you navigate the menus in your own camera. Although the information in this and the following chapter are condensed from those in Busch's full sized guide, they still are more comprehensive than those you'll find in other books.
Chapter 4. Custom, Setup, Retouch, and My Menu settings. Same as Chapter 3, but for the other menus.
Chapter 5. Using the flash. Everything you need to know about selecting a flash metering mode, flash sync mode, flash exposure compensation, etc. is here.
Chapter 6. Shooting D-Movies. All about using the D90's HD video capabilities. All the functions are here, but the chapter also includes a bonus section with tips for shooting better video.
Chapter 7. Shooting tips. This chapter consists of a series of charts with recommended menu and shooting settings for many common types of scenes. This is a brilliant addition, and you won't find it in other guidebooks at all.
Although this portable guide duplicates some of the information found in David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography, you need both in your library.
Chapter 1. Quick Setup Guide. Hand your camera and this book to any newbie, and they'll be off and shooting in minutes. It shows how to adjust the viewfinder to their vision, format a memory card, choose the right exposure mode (with a paragraph describing each mode and when to use it), how -- and why -- to select a metering mode, followed by lucid explanations of selecting autofocus, autofocus area modes, white balance, and ISO settings. There's a quick guide to navigating through and reviewing the images you've just shot, as well as a quick guide to flash. These are just the basics, and the typical shooter will probably refer to this chapter just once, when they begin using the camera.
Chapter 2. Nikon D90 Roadmap. This 28-page chapter is filled with large photographs of the camera from multiple views, with a paragraph describing what each and every control does, and why it's used. The manual furnished with the D90 gives you black and white drawings and cross references to multiple pages deep in the manual.
Chapter 3. Playback and Shooting Menu settings. Here's where Busch's Compact Field Guide excels. Unlike the command cards, small guidebooks, and manual packaged with the camera, Busch offers complete descriptions of each possible setting, including the rationale for using particular options. The book is spiral bound so it can lay flat while you read the instructions and adjust your camera simultaneously. Small illustrations show the menus in question, but you'll use them only to confirm that you're "in the right place" as you navigate the menus in your own camera. Although the information in this and the following chapter are condensed from those in Busch's full sized guide, they still are more comprehensive than those you'll find in other books.
Chapter 4. Custom, Setup, Retouch, and My Menu settings. Same as Chapter 3, but for the other menus.
Chapter 5. Using the flash. Everything you need to know about selecting a flash metering mode, flash sync mode, flash exposure compensation, etc. is here.
Chapter 6. Shooting D-Movies. All about using the D90's HD video capabilities. All the functions are here, but the chapter also includes a bonus section with tips for shooting better video.
Chapter 7. Shooting tips. This chapter consists of a series of charts with recommended menu and shooting settings for many common types of scenes. This is a brilliant addition, and you won't find it in other guidebooks at all.
Although this portable guide duplicates some of the information found in David Busch's Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography, you need both in your library.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
What a great concept!
7 Dec 2010
Format:Spiral-bound
It's amazing nobody thought of this before. I own David Busch's comprehensive full sized manual for the Nikon D90, but often wish I had some of its information available in a size that I could tuck in my camera bag and carry with me everywhere. This is exactly what I needed. It condenses the most essential information on camera setup and settings in a small format spiral bound book that's as easy to use as a folding command card, but with much more guidance.
Unlike the other small guides, which tend to just list all the commands and menu items with paraphrasings of what is found in the Nikon manual, this book has detailed explanations of each setting, what it does, why you'd want to use it, and when you don't want to use it. It lays flat, which is especially helpful when I am referring to the Recommended Settings chapter, which has charts listing the best PlayBack, Shooting, Custom, and Setup menu settings for All Purpose, Sports-Indoors, Sports-Outdoors, Stage Performances, Long Exposure, HDR, Portrait, Flash, Landscape, Macro, Travel, and E-Mail situations.
Unlike the other small guides, it's not padded out with general photography information that doesn't apply to the D90. Everything in it is stuff you'd want to access out in the Field, but adapted from the corresponding chapters from Busch's D90 "bible." While this Compact Field Guide does contain some of the same information, I'm very glad I have both. I can take this one with me everywhere, and still refer back to the full guidebook when I want more information, or want to learn advanced techniques. Somebody finally got it right.
Unlike the other small guides, which tend to just list all the commands and menu items with paraphrasings of what is found in the Nikon manual, this book has detailed explanations of each setting, what it does, why you'd want to use it, and when you don't want to use it. It lays flat, which is especially helpful when I am referring to the Recommended Settings chapter, which has charts listing the best PlayBack, Shooting, Custom, and Setup menu settings for All Purpose, Sports-Indoors, Sports-Outdoors, Stage Performances, Long Exposure, HDR, Portrait, Flash, Landscape, Macro, Travel, and E-Mail situations.
Unlike the other small guides, it's not padded out with general photography information that doesn't apply to the D90. Everything in it is stuff you'd want to access out in the Field, but adapted from the corresponding chapters from Busch's D90 "bible." While this Compact Field Guide does contain some of the same information, I'm very glad I have both. I can take this one with me everywhere, and still refer back to the full guidebook when I want more information, or want to learn advanced techniques. Somebody finally got it right.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A very competent book
30 Mar 2011
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
I gave the author four stars because there are some things that I badly need to know about this camera, and I found no mention of them: long exposures, for example, which, with most dSLRs, involve the use of "bulb." I realize that most people don't need these long exposure times, but I do.
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