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Nikon D90 For Dummies [Kindle Edition]

Julie Adair King (Author)
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Your Nikon D90 digital camera offers professional-quality features like 11-point autofocus, Live View, and the ability to shoot HD video. Take full advantage of every feature with Nikon D90 For Dummies! This fun and easy guide helps you understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.

With this full-color book, getting great shots is a snap. You’ll learn to:

  • Format memory cards, use Live View, create custom settings, and change lenses
  • Use thumbnail and calendar displays and picture data, and get tips for inspecting your photos
  • Control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with active D-lighting; and use various flash modes
  • Take control of lighting, exposure, and color
  • Set up, shoot, and review photos using the viewscreen
  • Record HD video, including sound, and know what your D90 can and can’t do
  • Download, organize, and archive your images, share them in prints, e-mails, or slide shows, and use Nikon’s photo management software
  • Decide when you should use JPEG and when to use NEF
  • Adjust resolution for optimum print quality or file size

Photographic expert Julie Adair King also shares secrets for getting the best point-and-shoot pictures, why you might not want to use the top image quality setting, and much more. Grab your Nikon D90 and Nikon D90 For Dummies, and start shooting!

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Use every feature of your D90, get creative, and snap great shots!

Your Nikon D90 offers professional–quality features to helpyou take your photography to the next level. Take full advantageof every one with this fun and easy guide! Understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.

  • Nuts and bolts — set up your camera, work with lenses and memory cards, and use automatic photography modes

  • Go live — get the scoop on using Live View mode and recording and playing HD movies

  • Gain new shooting skills — find out how to use advanced options to capture any subject like a pro

  • Exposure is everything — control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with Active D–Lighting; and use various flash modes

  • Out of the camera — download, organize, and archive your images and share them in prints, e–mails, and slide shows

Open the book and find:

  • Tips for taking perfect portraits, dynamic action shots, and beautiful nature pics

  • Techniques for manipulating color and focus

  • Detailed coverage of every menu option

  • Advice on which Custom Settings to use (and which ones to avoid)

  • How to choose the right Image Quality setting

  • Help with using Retouch menu options to fix problem photos

  • Easy–to–understand explanations of technical lingo

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
King's book is an excellent, lucid guide to the D90 which complements very well Ken Rockwell's more opinionated, but thoroughly informative on-line guide. King's book is comprehensive and should appeal equally to those who are new to contemporary SLR digital photography and the very experienced photographer. For instance, King treats the 'point and shoot' modes seriously and shows their posssibilities in a positive and non-patronising light. By this she encourages the beginner to become confident in using these settings as ones which which are valuable in themselves and as a way of gradually seeing the point and possibilities of the advanced modes.
King writes well. She is clear, uses simple language and combines her text with the copious illustrations in a tight fashion. In other words you don't have to keep flipping three or four pages which separate the words from the pics.
I highly recommend the book but I also recommend Rockwell's on-line guide as well to be read side by side King's. He sometimes makes strong recommendations about settings. I like this because he is never domineering and it can be a real help if you are new to digital SLR photography; but it can sometimes get in the way of exporing the camera's possibilities for yourself. King's book is more 'neutral' in this respect and so in some ways frees you up to try things out a bit more than Rockwell's guide does. I shouldn't, but sometimes when I don't follow one of Rockwell's strong suggestions, I feel worried that I am going against the expert's grain. Of course, that's my fault not Rockwell's, but I liked King's book especially because it told me what the camera is capable of and freed me up 'to play'.
After all, if you don't like your results you can scrub them out in a twinkling.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Great book. Easy read from start or to dip in for specifics. Great hints and tips and no assumption of previous knowledge of the jargon which was great.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Nikon D90 for Dummies 21 July 2009
By Don
Format:Paperback
After being disappointed with the Magic Lantern Guide, I bought this one. This is much better and in full colour.Recommended.
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An Excellent purchase
Much has been said about this book so I will simply add that I found it to be an excellent buy. The author has a pleasant easily read writing style and the overall presentation of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by AJ Wright
Nikon D90 for Dummies
I have previously disliked the style of the Dummies books, particularly the use of English and the Americanisms. Read more
Published 5 months ago by j b dawson
Reasonable Content but much is cut and paste from the Authors earlier...
A very nice, simple introduction to the use of the camera.
Personally I would have preferred to have seen some of the earlier chapters truncated somewhat (A Pre-Dummies... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Russell3162001
Good
Got it much cheaper on Amazon than at retail store. Delivery was prompt. The book is good. However, I would prefer to buy the DSLR for Dummies as that gives more info about the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Raghu
Best Camera Instructions by far ...
Having recently bought a Nikon D90 and was not getting on very well with the official instruction book I bought this Dummies book and I am absolutely delighted with it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Hippo
The dummies series really are the best
When I bought my camera I was determined to not put it in auto (at all if possible).
The manuals are basic so opted for this and I must say it has a wealth of information -... Read more
Published 9 months ago by nigel bradley
Invaluable
I am not a newcomer to photography but even so I found this book invaluable in taking me through the many processes and options that the D90 offers. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sennarien
Excellent Book
My experience with many "after-market" guides has almost always been that you get a book with the first couple of chapters dedicated to product that you have purchased, whilst the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Steel Squirrel
Perfect for Me!
I dabbled with a DSLR when the D70 was released, but things have advanced massively since then. The D90 is an altogether more advanced and specified machine, and this book is... Read more
Published 12 months ago by oakhamdon
A MUST HAVE!
The manual that comes with the Nikon D90 is too confusing for my liking. This book is a bit like a manual but nice and easy to understand! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kezza118
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