David Busch's Nikon D5200 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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From the Author I hope you'll find this book was well worth the wait. I'm pleased that I've been able to fill it with the kind of information you won't find other guides for this sophisticated camera. Whether you're a veteran dSLR owner, an advanced amateur who is switching to the Nikon D5200, a budding enthusiast who wants to learn all of the camera's great features, or an ambitious beginner who wants to learn the basics of photography while mastering the camera, sit down with me and we'll explore this camera together. You're in for a great ride!At nearly 400 pages, this book is the most comprehensive guidebook available for the D52000, and the first of two books I'm writing about Nikon's pioneering enthusiast camera. I've organized my tips into three sections, so that, no matter what your level of expertise, you can quickly access the information you need to master the camera.I know many books on the D5200 are being rushed to the shelves, but I've been stuffing mine full of things you won't find elsewhere, such as thumbnail descriptions of virtually every lens Nikon offers, including two lenses that I purchased while I was writing this book. They are the new, inexpensive 24-85mm mid-range zoom with VR, and -- surprisingly -- the new 18-300mm DX zoom that just might be your best bet as a walk-around lens for the D5200. Confused by wireless flash? Nikon's Creative Lighting System really deserves a full book of its own, but I pack all the basics you need to get started in my lighting chapter.Part I: Getting Started. These three chapters are devoted to letting you hit the ground running, with a quickie guide to exposure, autofocus, and other controls, a Streetsmart Roadmap that shows you what every component is, and how/when to use it, and a section listing my recommended settings. Nikon's default settings for your D5200 are nice, but mine are better.Part II: Mastering Your Tools. The four thick chapters in this Part tell you everything you need to know about exposure (including my dismantling of the myth of the 18 percent gray card), autofocus, HDR, and other tools. With the Nikon D5200's full HD video mode, I needed a chapter to explain just what you need to know to get started. If you're serious about movie-making, this section will ready you for more in-depth study. As a bonus, you'll find one chapter where I evaluate most of the current Nikon lens line-up (and a few old favorites.)Part III: Advanced Tools. Most guidebooks have a chapter near the front of the book that list all the menu options available, and what they do -- exactly like Nikon's own manual, only with more words. I explain these important options in three chapters -- 82 pages -- that not only tell you when and why to use each of the dozens of shooting, custom, and setup options of your Nikon D5200 - but when not to use them.Then, I give you chapters explaining the nature of light, and how to use it, with detailed coverage of electronic flash (even the basics), and using the Nikon Creative Lighting System's wireless/multiple flash modes.Can you tell that I am really excited about the Nikon D5200? If you're fed up with dry, boring camera guides that simply rehash all the confusing information in the manual that came in the box with your Nikon D5200, you'll enjoy exploring this great camera with me at your side. In addition to this book, I'm also offering David Busch's Nikon D5200 Compact Field Guide, a spiral-bound digest for using the most important features of the D5200. Read more About the Author With more than a 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author. His friendly advice and expert instruction go beyond the menus and buttons, helping an entire generation of Nikon camera owners explore photography as they master their cameras. Busch is the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written dozens of hugely successful guidebooks, including the all-time #1 best-sellers for many Nikon models, as well as many popular books devoted to digital cameras and techniques, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Third Edition and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he 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 upstate New York college. His articles and photographs have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured on NPR's All Tech Considered. Read more
Reviews
With my brand new Nikon D5200 camera in hand I started reading Mr. Busch's Nikon D5200 Guide to Digital SLR Photography. In the Introduction and Preface Mr. Busch told me how his book is different and better than the rest because, unlike the others, Mr. Busch's book was written specifically for the Nikon D5200 and not copied from another book, modified, and rushed to market. Well, between the Introduction and the first three chapters, Mr. Busch at least twice referred to a "top panel LCD display" that my D5200 doesn't have. So, either Mr. Busch copied the book (or at least some of the chapters) from another one of his books about a camera that has a top panel LCD display, or Mr. Busch confused the Nikon D5200 with another camera that has a top panel LCD display, or somehow Nikon built and delivered to me a mutant D5200 camera without this display. I'll continue reading the book until I either find too many discrepancies between the book and my D5200 and throw the book on my kindling pile or see that these were isolated mistakes and finish the book. So, I can only give Mr. Busch's book three stars at this time (mediocre at best) because I'm starting to lose faith in Mr. Busch being truthful in his writings and his expertise in reviewing and writing guides for cameras.
