David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1435454979 | ISBN-13: 978-1435454972 | Edition: 1

Welcome to the D5000, the most advanced upper-entry-level digital SLR camera that Nikon has ever introduced. "David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography" shows you how to maximize your camera's robust feature set, including 12 megapixel resolution, 13 versatile new Scene modes, blazing-fast automatic focus, the real-time preview system Live View, and even HDTV movie-making capabilities. 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 D5000'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 D5000, and use it like a pro!

Product Details

• Paperback: 379 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (June 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1435454979
• ISBN-13: 978-1435454972
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The D5000 deserves a book this good!, July 5, 2009

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Ricardo Perez (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

Although it is as easy to use as a point and shoot camera, the Nikon D5000 really deserves a manual that is better than the one supplied with the camera. This is that manual. You can start out with the D5000 as a point and shoot camera, and this book will help you make the basic settings you need to do that. But when you're ready to do more and take better pictures, this is the book you need. It gives the D5000 the respect it deserves, with lots of information that a newbie can use to learn how to work with the more advanced features of the Nikon.

I wasn't happy with the barebones style of other camera books I looked at. It just isn't possible to squeeze everything you need to know into a small book, especially when a lot of space is taken up just repeating information that's in Nikon's little guide. They also include much general photography information that can apply to any camera. Busch's Guide to Digital SLR Photography does explain the things that are in the manual, too, but also explains other topics and relates them directly to the Nikon D5000.

Like another reviewer, I was very pleased with the chapter on lenses. Nikon has so many different lenses, and even more are available from Tamron and Sigma. The lens chapter looks at many different lens choices, including all of Nikon's current lenses, and helps you sort out which ones you might want to buy. The electronic flash chapter was equally informative with the choices among electronic flash equipment.

I was wowed by how good a camera the Nikon D5000 is, and I was equally impressed at how this book does a great camera justice. Don't settle for anything less.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have reference for the Nikon D5000, July 2, 2009

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Denise Craycroft (Rochester) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

If you're looking for a more comprehensive reference guide for your Nikon D5000, this book is the one to buy. At 398 pages, it has way more information than you'll find in the skimpy manual Nikon packs with the camera, and the explanations are a lot easier to understand, as well.

David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography is simply the best way to learn how to use each and every feature of your new camera, while mastering every aspect of digital photography. It's divided into two parts. The first 160 pages are an introduction to the Nikon D5000 and its operation. Large color photos show each control and explain how to use it, unlike the Nikon manual, which directs you to multiple locations. For example, this book has seven pages that show examples of each of the "shooting information" and "quick settings" screens, so you know what to look for and how to use them.

I was pleased to find a 90 page chapter that explained all the menu options to me. Other camera guides typically dismiss this important information in 30 pages or so. This book not only tells you what the options are, but why you'd want to use each one.

The next 240 pages explain photography using the Nikon D5000 camera. For example, there is a chapter on fine-tuning exposure, another on shooting HDTV movies, optimizing autofocus, geotagging, and other more advanced topics. There's even a chapter that evaluates virtually all of the Nikon lenses you might want to consider, and one that explains how to use flash.

This book belongs at the side of every Nikon D5000 photographer. You chose your camera for a reason. You deserve a guidebook that will help you get the most out of it.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First and best D5000 guidebook, July 3, 2009

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N. V. Mills (Boston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

I purchased this author's guide to the D60, so when I replaced that camera with the new D5000, I quickly signed up to purchase this one when it became available. If anything, it's even better than the excellent D60 guidebook. Busch expands his explanations into new and interesting areas that have helped me become an even better photographer, while keeping the solid basic information. I particularly wanted this book to learn all the new choices in the menus, which are radically different from those in my D60. It gave me exactly what I wanted.

I have several other books by this author, and have seen his articles in Popular Photography & Imaging and read all the favorable reviews in Shutterbug, and have been following Busch's blog regularly. He really is the top expert on Nikon photography (aside from Thom Hogan) and has been producing the absolute best printed camera guides for my favorite line of cameras. I don't like DVDs and I don't like e-books, but I do like this fat book about my D5000 digital SLR.