Mastering the Nikon D700 |  | Authors: Darrell Young, James Johnson
Publisher: Rocky Nook
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ISBN: 1933952237
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Mastering the Nikon D700 provides a wealth of information and professional insights for owners of this powerful new camera. Each chapter explores the features and capabilities of the D700 in detail, surpassing basic user manuals by providing step-by-step menu setting adjustments coupled with illustrations and logical explanations for each option. The authors' writing style allows the reader to follow directions in a friendly and informative manner, as if a friend dropped in to share his experienced knowledge without "talking down" to you, explaining the how and the why. The learning experience for D700 beginners (and refresher information for professionals) goes beyond the camera itself. When camera features and options expand to additional Nikon equipment (such as with the use of optional Speedlights) the authors add the necessary information. Their frequent references to user manuals provided by Nikon (complete with specific page references) allow the reader to easily navigate past the confusion factor that often comes with new equipment. Mastering the Nikon D700 is another title in the Nikonians Press series-the exciting, new, joint venture between Nikonians and Rocky Nook.
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 Best D700 guide available to date June 16, 2009
RonAnnArbor (Ann Arbor, MI United States)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is by far the best Nikon D700 guide available to date. With clear writing, great illustrations and menu instructions, and plenty of person experience, it is clear that the authors know their business and are happy sharing it with the rest of us. There is no comparison between this and the Magic Lantern Guide for example, and the Digital Field Guide for the D700 is just far too incomplete.
This is a great manual, and you will find yourself leaving it on your coffee table and referring back to it from time to time as you make your D700 your own.
A Splendid Book, Rich in Details June 3, 2009
Edward R. Brown
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Every Nikon D700 owner can profit from this splendid book. The authors have gone to great effort to ferret out extra possibilities in the buttons and knobs, and most especially in the menus. Did you know that the center nib of the multi-selector can be programmed to bring up the histogram in Playback with a single poke? How very nice!
The authors start out with an overview of special new features like Live View and full frame, and then review some basics of photography, white balance and histograms and so forth, but very soon they are on their way into the menus where they have done their most excellent work.
The D700 menus are vast, involving at least 250 choices, too many to count. In many cases the authors have written little essays of advice in addition to their descriptions of the actual choices themselves. The reader gets a much clearer understanding of what the choices are and how and when to use them, and this is invaluable.
But better still are the 100s of little black and gold screenshots that follow along with each menu item, page after page in this book, on almost 200 pages in all. From these screenshots, the reader can navigate more readily through the myriad of menu choices and arrive at the exact spot. How very much this reduces the confusion of dealing with so many features that are available in this wonderful camera. Many readers will also find new capabilities in this camera that they might never have ferreted out for themselves.
The authors are quite determined that every reader learn (and use) the shooting and custom banks which store little collections of settings so that no one need to wade through pages of menu choices to find those exact bits needed that instant when a different shooting opportunity arises. A single click on the fly will change to these settings, and the photographer is ready to go.
The book concludes with a dandy 20- page review of Nikon's Creative Lighting System, again with the screen shots so that the reader can see exactly what to do and how to do it.
If You Own the Camera, You Need the Book June 29, 2009
John Jacobson (Riverside CA USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
O'Reilly is famous for publishing missing manual books. This book is published by Rockynook under the NikoniansPress label. It is a book sponsored by Nikon enthusiasts, and presents the many features of the Nikon D700 in a clear readable format. The Nikonians is a Nikon user group numbering over 170,000 members. Their web site, http://www.nikonians.org/, is chock full of valuable information about shooting photos with Nikon cameras and is frequented by both amateurs and professionals. If you own a Nikon camera and are not a Nikonian, you should join. Their forums are particularly valuable in solving your photographic problems.
The owners manual for the D700 is actually well written, clear and concise. This book adds a practical adviser to the mix, explaining why using a certain choice in a certain situation will produce an outstanding photograph. It has appropriate photos of both camera menus and photographs explaining the results of the menu choices that one makes.
When you make the decision to purchase a camera body that will set you back north of 2 G's, you'll appreciate knowing all the tricks and methods that will reinforce the wisdom of that decision. This book does that, and should be part of your library.
Highly recommended.
TRANSCENDENTAL BOOK June 10, 2009
I. L. Celnik (Colombia)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
To handle it properly and squeeze every drop of its potential, you must know exactly what each function and/or control of the D700 does. Otherwise, there is no practical reason for spending so much money in a camera this caliber: The D700 is the most precise, versatile, efficient and owner configurable semi-pro camera in today's market and you have the option of customize it to the most demanding calibration parameters, personal needs and settings, as no other camera of its kind can. That's why this book is so transcendental: it explains clear and thoroughly why and how each and every setting and tuning can be placed in the camera. Where the owner's manual gets short (even with its 400+ pages), and for that matter, other books of its kind, this volume fills the blanks. Indeed, this book could be considered a general digital camera operating manual. Now you'll know exactly what kind of extraordinary camera you have in your hands and how to explode all of its possibilities.
Very practical and informative compendium to the Nikon D700 August 28, 2009
Ross D. Burton (Duncraig, Western Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this book, "Mastering the Nikon D700" not as an aid to utilising the features of the D700, but as a guide to compare the features of my current Nikon DSLR with those of the D700 . In actuality, I purchased this as a precursor to one day purchasing a Nikon D700.
For me the book admirably met my needs.
What did I enjoy about the book?
The writing style was warm and helpful, rather than technical and mechanical.
The authors have adopted a style of `friends to friend' as they discuss the various features of and how to use to the better advantage these features on the Nikon D700.
This seemingly and somewhat interactive and unassuming style is both engaging and very helpful.
The layout of the book is logical and has a well considered `thumb through' for chapter identification and location.
The excellent illustrations demonstrating the camera menus and features are another highly commendable feature of this book. Guiding the reader to the precise location in the menu(s) or on the camera, these illustrations make for rapid cognition and comprehension.
I found the grayed out boxes with orange headings especially helpful pieces of information regarding practical uses and applications relevant to both general and specific camera use. So, having read these well identified sections, I gained knowledge and therefore usableMastering the Nikon D700 experience regardless of currently still waiting to be able to afford the Nikon D700 camera.
Because I'd just returned from another country where I should have affected White Balance on my Nikon D70s, but didn't. I had the very current and time-consuming experience of having to manually retouch many of my 1200 shots. So I gained timely and very practical understandings of the sections on White Balance and Loss less compressed NEF. Because I was holidaying I decided that I would shoot my photos in Jpeg format. The loss in photo data which I suffered made so much more difficult my re touching work. For me these are memorable lessons, but Mastering the Nikon D700 came at the right time for me and answered my practical and technical questions.
I will mention just one more area of learning for me from reading this manual. Before reading about it, I was entirely unaware of the technical reasons for Exposure Delay in Digital cameras. Now I am much more informed.
I've been shooting pictures for quite a few years and look for written material that will enhance my capacity as a photographer. This book has met my need admirably and help me to be a better photographer and hopefully increase my photo sales!
Has this book increased my desire to purchase a Nikon D700.
You bet it has....I can't wait to do so and see the increased quality that such a unit will bring to my photography.
Well done, authors Darrel Young and James Johnson together with Publishers Nikonians Press.
Ross Burton
www.roscovisuals.com
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