The Nikon D200 Dbook: Your Interactive Guide to DSLR Photography [Hardcover]

Helmut Kraus (Author), Rainer Dorau (Author), Rudolf Krahm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2007

Rocky Nook Dbooks are the ideal companion for anyone who wants to get the most from their Nikon D200. With more than 580 digital pages in Acrobat format, you will discover the fundamentals on all aspects of the digital image creation process: digital photography basics, taking pictures, image optimization, lenses, accessories, and much more.

Rocky Nook Dbooks go well beyond the Nikon camera manuals and are well-organized, beautifully illustrated introductions to digital photography with the Nikon system.

The Dbooks offer clickable examples and digital images that explain before-and-after situations and clearly illustrate the individual stages of the processes involved. Navigation is easy with the built-in hyperlinks or the detailed index and Acrobat search functions. Rocky Nook Dbooks make reading just as exciting and interactive as digital photography itself. High-resolution RGB images help to illustrate subtle differences and effects which would hardly be visible on a printed book page.

Rocky Nook Dbooks also include a handy booklet for use on the road, which is filled with practical overviews of your camera and menu options.

The Rocky Nook Dbook series is a must for all serious amateur, semi-professional, or professional photographers who want to get the most out of their Nikon equipment, and who strive to produce impressive, polished, digital images.

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About the Author

Designer, journalist, and imaging expert Helmut Kraus is based in D sseldorf, Germany. As an author of numerous magazine articles and reference books, he has been closely watching the development of digital communication and production tools since their beginnings. His work focuses on the progressing evolution of visual techniques, especially the effects of digital photography and digital imaging on graphic design.

Based in Bad Homburg, Germany, information designer Rainer Dorau specializes in user interface design and user assistance systems where digital photography touches his daily work in various ways. For many years the committed photo enthusiast has been contributing to numerous book projects on digital imaging, both as a writer and a layout designer. His passion for digital photography emanates from his fascination for modern technologies and his enjoyment of photographic images.

Once a dedicated student of the works of Shakespeare and Dickens, Rudolf Krahm today works as a freelance translator (English/German) and editor for technical documents and books on digital imaging and photography. As an amateur photographer Krahm started out with an old Agfa Isolette, and then wouldn't let go of his completely manual Nikkormat FT2 for many years until he was swept along by the digital imaging wave. His favorite photo subjects are nature and landscape as well as his family.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 580 pages
• Publisher: Rocky Nook; 1 edition (September 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933952148
• ISBN-13: 978-1933952147
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #598,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Color

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best D200 Book Period, October 31, 2007

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David A. Huss (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nikon D200 Dbook: Your Interactive Guide to DSLR Photography (Hardcover)

I love my Nikon D200 and am always on the lookout for a book that will help me to get more out of this expensive collection of hardware and glass. I own several D-200 books that are, at best, annotated, paraphrased, and rehashed versions of the existing Nikon User Guide. So it was with some degree of doubt that I approached the Nikon D200 Dbook. My first surprise was it was not just a manual on a CD. It is truly an interactive reference guide. For example, when I read the section that covered menu settings for saturation, the book not only made recommendations for the settings, but when you clicked on the menu setting (which looks exactly like the one in the camera) the photo in the book changed to reflect what change was produced. Too cool. They also include some step-by-step solutions to common setups. I especially enjoyed the section on flash photography in which they showed examples of the effects of different different flash settings and the effects that could be created. In addition to covering what appears to be all aspects of the D200, they have also included a fairly detailed course on digital photography in general. The printed book (about 30 pages) provides a snap summary of how to use the Dbook, an overview of the camera controls, and the menus.
As both an author and a photographer I think this is an excellent book that should serve as a model for all books of this genre. The only limitation is that you must have a computer to read it but if you are a serious digital photographer you already have one or more notebooks. If you are shooting with a D200 you need to get this book. Eat beans for a week or put off buying your next camera accessory, whatever it takes. This book, if you read it, will make you a better D200 photographer period.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea - Needs Work, November 10, 2007

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Hal (FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Nikon D200 Dbook: Your Interactive Guide to DSLR Photography (Hardcover)

The idea of an interactive manual is a good one but I think this one got a bit lost along the way. The use of tables, pictures, and sidebars is a normal practice in printed books where you can see two pages at a time but on screen when you can only see one page at a time interruptions to the text in mid-sentence can be disconcerting. Also, buyers should be aware that the photoshop actions have to be downloaded from the publisher's website since they were left off of the cd.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I have to question the author, December 15, 2009

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This review is from: The Nikon D200 Dbook: Your Interactive Guide to DSLR Photography (Hardcover)

I am normally too lazy to write reviews, but there is one intolerable flaw that lounges out at me. In section 24, "The Shooting Menu", where he describes the settings for the camera, I find it reprehensible that he tells you that you should only shoot with Adobe RGB instead of sRGB "color space". No surprise that no explanation is given and the author automatically assumes that with Adobe's larger color space it is superior to sRGB. The actual answer depends on the situation. Although Adobe RGB has a larger color space than sRGB, most monitors and printers can't reproduce the extra colors from Adobe. This can cause images that appears color shifted or colors that come out too dull.