Whether you're a dedicated photographer on a budget or a serious hobbyist, the Nikon D50 will open new doors for you. You already know it's packed with features and reasonably priced; now learn to use all its tricks. This indispensable guide takes you step by step through everything the D50 can do. Better yet, it teaches you professional techniques for using lenses and lighting and taking top-quality shots. This is the book that belongs with you on every shoot. * Use the Quick Tour to get familiar with your camera and start shooting * Learn when to use each of the D50's seven DVP modes * Explore metering techniques, ISO settings, and white balance * Experiment with exposure, lenses, and lighting effects * Delve into formulas for setting up and composing more than 25 different types of photographs * Take the confusion out of downloading and editing your photos
Whether you're a dedicated photographer on a budget or a serious hobbyist, the Nikon D50 will open new doors for you. You already know it's packed with features and reasonably priced; now learn to use all its tricks. This indispensable guide takes you step by step through everything the D50 can do. Better yet, it teaches you professional techniques for using lenses and lighting and taking top-quality shots. This is the book that belongs with you on every shoot.
Use the Quick Tour to get familiar with your camera and start shooting
Learn when to use each of the D50's seven DVP modes
Explore metering techniques, ISO settings, and white balance
Experiment with exposure, lenses, and lighting effects
Delve into formulas for setting up and composing more than 25 different types of photographs
Take the confusion out of downloading and editing your photos
About the Author
David D. Busch was a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, who illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He’s operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and an upstate New York college. His photos have been published in magazines as diverse as Scientific American and Petersen’s PhotoGraphic, and his articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He currently reviews digital cameras for CNET.com and Computer Shopper. When About.com recently named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, occupying the #1 and #2 slots were Busch’s Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. His 78 other books published since 1983 include best-sellers The Nikon D70 Digital Field Guide, Digital SLR Cameras and Photography For Dummies, The Official Hewlett-Packard Scanner Handbook, and Digital Photography For Dummies Quick Reference. Busch earned top category honors in the Computer Press Awards the first two years they were given (for Sorry About The Explosion and Secrets of MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw), and later served as Master of Ceremonies for the awards.
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.
This review is from: Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide (Paperback)
I recommend this book to those who felt the manual that came with the camera was not enough. It covers everything that is in the manual with more detail and every page is in color as well. Along with the information on how to use the camera, it also gives you simple and basic information on how to take pictures explaining exposure, metering and more. Nice book to have around for beginners.
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This review is from: Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide (Paperback)
The D50 is the Nikon Camera Company's entry level digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) and will appeal to folks wanting to upgrade from a point-and-shoot camera. Unfortunately, the number of controls on the camera can be daunting and the 100 plus-page, black and white instruction book can be equally daunting. It is to appeal to people intimidated by the manual that the "Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide" with its plentiful color graphics and generous use of white space is designed.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first part Busch describes the camera and various functions. The second part gives some instruction in photography basics, including a discussion of exposure, lenses and the downloading and editing of pictures. There is a chapter entitled "Photo Subjects" that is almost half of the pages in the book and that presents a variety of subjects from "Abstract Photography" to "Zoo and Animal Photography". Each of these sections gives a few general tips on photographing the particular subject matter and then presents one of the author's pictures with a discussion of the author's considerations with regard to setup, lighting, lens, camera settings, exposure and accessories. While the discussion doesn't go into great depth, it might be useful to a beginner encountering a new subject.
With regard to exposure, I was particularly pleased to see the explanation of histograms, since I consider this the most distinct advantage of photographing with a DSLR.
However most of the discussions of the camera were less than adequate. When the author discusses the program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual modes he never tells the reader when each of these might be appropriate. The D50 offers the user a number of options in setup that are never even mentioned. The author also makes several references to the RAW format but never really suggests why or when it might be a useful format.
His discussion of technique is cursory and disjointed. For example, his discussion of how aperture adjustments affect depth of field comes several pages before any explanation of depth of field. He tells you how to set white balance many pages before explaining the function of white balance.
What particularly surprised me is that Busch has written a much better book on DSLR's called "Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies." .
You can read the "Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide" if you want a nicely designed book that lures you into reading just enough about the camera and photography to be able to capture a few pictures. For the serious new D50 owner, I would recommend reading the manual that comes with the camera, no matter how intimidating it might appear, and then reading Busch's "For Dummies" book.
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This review is from: Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide (Paperback)
This book is far more extensive than the manual that comes with the camera and it helps with the transition from point-and-shoot photography to SLR. It goes over the basics of SLR photography and can help you taylor your growth in the skills to what you need. Best of all it tells you specificly how to do it with the Nikon D50 rahter than being a general book on photography and SLR photography. Any one who is thinking of making the switch to SLR photography using a D50 will want this book.
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If you've taken your first picture or two (or 200!) with your Nikon D50, you're probably eager to learn more about your camera's features and how to use them. Read the first pageKey Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
custom settings menu, kit lens, rotate the command dial, multi selector, exposure compensation button, indoor portraits, slow sync, prime lens, white balance set, mode dial, shooting mode, older lenses, internal flash, set the white balance, environmental portraits, zoomed area, continuous lighting, higher shutter speed, high shutter speed, focus zone, external flash, flash exposure, autofocus system, metering mode, lens hood
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Exposure Practice Picture, Lens Practice Picture, Lighting Practice Picture, Camera Settings Practice Picture, Nikon Capture, Photoshop Elements, Creating Great Photos, Accessories White, Mother Nature, Telephoto Zoom Lens
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