Nikon D90 For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)) (Paperback)

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Your Nikon D90 digital camera offers professional-quality features like 11-point autofocus, Live View, and the ability to shoot HD video. Take full advantage of every feature with Nikon D90 For Dummies! This fun and easy guide helps you understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.

With this full-color book, getting great shots is a snap. You’ll learn to:

• Format memory cards, use Live View, create custom settings, and change lenses
• Use thumbnail and calendar displays and picture data, and get tips for inspecting your photos
• Control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with active D-lighting; and use various flash modes
• Take control of lighting, exposure, and color
• Set up, shoot, and review photos using the viewscreen
• Record HD video, including sound, and know what your D90 can and can’t do
• Download, organize, and archive your images, share them in prints, e-mails, or slide shows, and use Nikon’s photo management software
• Decide when you should use JPEG and when to use NEF
• Adjust resolution for optimum print quality or file size

Photographic expert Julie Adair King also shares secrets for getting the best point-and-shoot pictures, why you might not want to use the top image quality setting, and much more. Grab your Nikon D90 and Nikon D90 For Dummies, and start shooting!

From the Back Cover

Use every feature of your D90, get creative, and snap great shots!

Your Nikon D90 offers professional-quality features to helpyou take your photography to the next level. Take full advantageof every one with this fun and easy guide! Understand and use all the dials and modes, manage photo size and quality, take creative control with manual settings, and share your images in print or online.

• Nuts and bolts — set up your camera, work with lenses and memory cards, and use automatic photography modes

• Go live — get the scoop on using Live View mode and recording and playing HD movies

• Gain new shooting skills — find out how to use advanced options to capture any subject like a pro

• Exposure is everything — control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO; work with Active D-Lighting; and use various flash modes

• Out of the camera — download, organize, and archive your images and share them in prints, e-mails, and slide shows

Open the book and find:

• Tips for taking perfect portraits, dynamic action shots, and beautiful nature pics

• Techniques for manipulating color and focus

• Detailed coverage of every menu option

• Advice on which Custom Settings to use (and which ones to avoid)

• How to choose the right Image Quality setting

• Help with using Retouch menu options to fix problem photos

• Easy-to-understand explanations of technical lingo

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (February 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470457724
• ISBN-13: 978-0470457726
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,738 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars practical, March 10, 2009

By	J ACEVEDO "Olygo" (Florida) - See all my reviews

Very concise,well explained.The point in buying this type of book is to learn how to operate the camera in a clear practical way.This book accomplishes that.I have other book on the same camera by a well known author and photographer but you get buried in a blizzard of technical information that not only is irrelevant to know in order to operate the camera but makes the reading heavy,distracting, endless and boring.I recommend this book highly it's right to the point,not more.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Should Come With the Camera, May 9, 2009

By	Linda D. Abel - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read the manual cover to cover. It wasn't much help. This was the book that made it all clear and understandable. I like to think I am pretty intelligent but I knew that I didn't have much time before my trip and I wanted to really use my new D90. This helped me get up to speed pretty quickly and even cleared up questions from when I used to shoot with my film SLR. I highly recommend this book for any owner of the D90. It is a great camera with incredible potential but only if you know how to use it. This certainly gets you off to a fast start.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, March 11, 2009

By	Ivy Shaffer "shutter bug" (Mt. Holly, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fabulous book! Forget your user manual for now and buy this book as it breaks down all the essentials of this camera. After struggling with the Nikon manual for weeks, I read this and immediately found all kinds of key tricks to making great photos. The author knows Nikon and makes learning the D90, a highly technical piece of equipment, light and easy. I am so glad I bought this and now capture great photos!

I am new to this series of books, but from now own, they will be my first resource!