Product Details

• Actors: Graham Sterling
• Directors: Blue Crane Digital
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Blue Crane
• DVD Release Date: July 31, 2005
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A0C71K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,481 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Nikon D50 takes great shots right out of the box, but understanding the controls and features of the camera can really unleash its potential. This video explains how the camera's controls are designed to work together to capture the best image under all conditions. Each subject is contained in a separate chapter, so you can proceed at your own pace, and later come back to an individual topic.

Topics Include:
• Simplifying the camera controls
• Digital Vari-Programs
• Autofocus brackets and modes
• Exposure modes
• Shutter priority setting
• Aperture priority / Depth of field
• Metering / Bracketing
• Exposure compensation
• ISO – film speed vs. electronic gain
• Understanding histograms
• Custom Settings menu
• White balance / Color temperature
• RAW (NEF) files
• Software tools: Picture Project

and Photoshop Elements
• Composition
• Printing your favorite photos
• And much more!

Cut weeks or months off your learning curve. This DVD not only gets you up and running with confidence, it does it in about ninety minutes! Take better pictures than you ever dreamed possible. You'll come back to this video again and again. This DVD is REGION FREE. The DVD is in NTSC format. It includes several examples looking "through the viewfinder". You see how the controls work and how to use the displays to make choices about your final image.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best way to get going, April 9, 2006

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R. C. Foley "cashfoley" (Plano, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to the Nikon D50 Digital SLR (DVD)

This DVD will get using your D50 with confidence. Sure "almost" everything could be mined out of manual. But that thing is as dry as it gets.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Video on New Camera, January 11, 2007

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M. Walters "WBFD Captain" (Galesburg, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to the Nikon D50 Digital SLR (DVD)

I found the video to be more helpful than the product printed manual. Finding things in the manual is a task. The video is easy to understand and covers the points I could not easily find in the printed document.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'd like to give it 5 stars..., March 26, 2007

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M. Hillyer (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to the Nikon D50 Digital SLR (DVD)

... but I can't because ultimately the information doesn't go much past the manual. That said, though, the information presented is clear and well organized which makes it more useful as a teaching too than the printed manual. I found some of the advice very useful - it was in the manual, but somewhat buried. If you can learn to use products from a reference volume, you won't need this guide, but if you learn better from a visual presentation (along with trying things out with the camera) this video is worth the money.