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Product Description
Having trouble putting down your Nikon D80 long enough to read the manual? Slip this convenient, full-color guide into your camera bag instead. You’ll find big, clear color photos to help you identify the camera’s many controls, complete information on using each button and dial, and breathtaking examples of the results. Then discover step-by-step recipes for shooting terrific photos in more than 15 specific situations. This indispensable guide is like having a personal photographic assistant.
- Test-drive your Nikon D80 with a Quick Tour.
- Learn to efficiently operate all your camera’s controls.
- Review photographic basics like exposure, lighting, and composition.
- Explore different types of lenses.
- Discover the appropriate lens, ISO setting, aperture or mode, shutter speed, and lighting for a variety of subjects and situations.
- Get expert tips on downloading and editing your photos.
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After reading this book I don’t understand why anyone would buy it over using the Nikon D80 Manual that comes with the camera. The Nikon manual describes everything that you might need to know about using you D80. The book, on the other hand, glosses over many important details of how to specifically use the D80. Don’t think that you need an extra book when you have a free and complete manual. Read the manual; skip the book.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
I found that this field guide was somewhat useful in explaining many of the features of the camera and how to use them, but I wish I would have saved my money because the instruction manual has much of that information. I would recommend this to beginners or to someone who wants a somewhat more informative manual than is provided by Nikon. Anyone looking for a how to book on photography using the D80 should look elsewhere.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
I thought this book would be a better reference for the D80 than the manual, but in fact, the manual was better organized and more precise. I felt the author jumped all over the place and I didn’t really learn much more about the camera than what was offered in the D80 manual.
This author seems like a very knowledgeable photographer though. The editing of this book is horrible… spelling mistakes throughout.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
If you bought a D80 as your first camera this is a fair book. Many, though, are much better at explaining the basic concepts of photography. But if you know what depth of field is, you don’t need this book; look elsewhere.
Only about 20% of this is D80 specific and that part is simply a large-print version of the factory “book”.
It’s also mis-named as being a “field guide”. If should have spiral binding so I can lay the book down with the page open while handling the camera. That should be a feature on ANY camera instruction book.
I’m a semi-pro shooter and I got more and better info on what the buttons do from the fold-up guide also for sale within Amazon.
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Okay, I’ve had a bit more time with the book and want to raise the rating to four stars. Why four? Depth of field is explained, yes, but a more careful and thorough reading shows that Busch has described the function as it’s employed on the D80. ditto for the other million functions and I’m finding camera-specific information to be very useful.
Why not 5 stars? I gave up my huge camera bag with several lenses, extra bodies, filters etc. after lugging it around Russia for a month; it took almost a year for my hip to heal. I sold it all and went the one camera with one lens route with Photoshop on the laptop (I don’t lug it around). With light weight as a tactical goal, a slick-paper book is just too darn heavy to be called a Field Guide. Read this, keep it on the shelf, and take the lighter-weight Nikon manual as a reminder.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
This is a Ok book guide (generally) but it needs to address basic picture taking; like how do set your camera to take : low light pics/ indoors and outdoors pics and so on. Some step by step how to instructions on how to take different types of pics. This is a field Guide that should have on the spot answers to how you set up or use the camera when taking any picture and give you a better idea on what to look for, a general feel of what will makes the picture better. You should be able to buy it… so that you can get better at using the Nikon D80 in a shorter amount of time. This book also needs a reference section that answer questions like; Why don’t my zoom lens stay focus, it’s keeps going in and out of focus? You are in the wrong focus mode:AF-C that is for action pics, use AF-S for single pics it puts your focus point in the center. Af-C has a group of focus points and that can cost a focus problem when taking single shots . With AF-C anything that comes into the frame will draw the focus, costing your focus to go in and out.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5