David Busch’s Nikon D90 Guide to Digital SLR Photography
Posted by iwellbc on March 9th, 2010 filed in Articles
- ISBN13: 9781598639056
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 importan… More >>
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March 9th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Although this book is easy to read and well organized there are too many factual errors to give it a high rating. Several menu options are incorrectly described and other camera attributes do not match the reality of the d90. Overall this carelessness greatly diminishes the utility of this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
If you are new to SLRs and you can actually read the owners manual this guide is not for you.
I was expecting this guide to introduce me to D90 in addition to some of the dSLR concepts after all I can read the owners manual to see where the buttons or menus are.
I was very surprised to see the format book was following. For some reason 10% of the book seem to explain why this guide is better then the manual that comes with the camera. Every chapter has this prelude that explains why the owner manuals version is so much more complicated (which I don’t agree) then does the similar cross referencing the owner manual does.
Earlier chapters you find things that say “Here is how you set the bracketing, we will discuss “bracketing” in further detail in Chapter X, Y”. So you turn over to X and Y chapters and try to figure out where the for-mentioned section is which is very time consuming. I was expecting better road map then the owner manual has.
Over all i do not recommend this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
This is the first time the Amazon review system has let me down and I’ll be returning this book. Despite the very positive reviews, this book has several problems ranging from innocent typos to completely inaccurate information.
It’s obvious that a large part of this book was produced by copying any pasting from one of the author’s previous books. He even mistakenly refers to the D90 as the D60 and the EOS (which is a Canon camera). At one point in the book two paragraphs are repeated two pages away from one another. Copy and paste side effects like these are apparent throughout the book.
I would have been more inclined to give this book three stars if it weren’t for the sometimes confusing and occasionally misleading information it presents. More than once I had to refer to the owner’s manual that came with the D90 to clarify contradicting instructions from Mr. Busch. He even contradicted himself several times in the book, saying that something was possible on one page just to say it wasn’t possible on the following page.
For example, Mr. Busch asserts on page 286 and 287 that the D90 can’t command remote (wireless) flashes without the aid of a SB-900 or SU-800. This is completely false. Even the D80 could remotely fire wireless Speedlights such as the SB-600. Ironically, Mr. Busch includes a picture on page 286 showing the D90 setup screen for enabling commander mode and configuring remote Speedlights.
I would recommend looking at another guide book, or just read the owner’s manual a few times while waiting for the author to update his book with another printing or edition. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any source of errata information available that would make me comfortable recommending this book in its current state.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
The book was great. I had a video but this book was much better. Easy to understand and great format.
Rating: 4 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
This book, at roughly 400 pages, is easily the most comprehensive and definitive guide for the Nikon D90 camera. It contains depth and information not found elsewhere, and, overall, is accurate. I found a typo here and there, but they were few and far between, and thoroughly documented as errata at the author’s web site.(Most have been fixed for later printings, as my copy of this book was relatively “clean.”)
Instead, I have focused on the rich supply of useful information in this book, which includes an extensive discussion of why you should use any particular option or setting — and what happens when you do. Most of us will eventually learn all the puzzling setup choices available in the menus. This book helps you learn the best settings quickly. It also helps you learn about photography, such as using histograms and lens selection, all related specifically to the D90 (unlike more general books.) I finally understand autofocus, thanks to an entire chapter about it in the second half of this book.
There are pocket sized guides you can take with you as you shoot. As they have said, Nikon provides one of those right in the box with the camera. But if you want to go beyond the basics and really understand your camera, you should buy this book.
Rating: 5 / 5