Product Description

You’ve decided to upgrade from your old point–and–shoot by purchasing the compact and economical Nikon D60, an SLR model without all the bulk. Now, make the most of your new digital camera by actually learning how to use all those options and settings! Take advantage of external controls and learn how to navigate the camera menus to fully customize internal options so that you can capture, share, and print photographs like a professional.

You’ll find out how to understand the controls, navigate the menus, choose your settings, access internal options, and become familiar with automatic modes. You’ll learn to use the Image Quality and Image Size settings, which are necessary for both automatic and manual picture–taking. Then, you can easily express your creativity by managing aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and editing your photographs on a computer. You will download photos and print them to share with your friends and family! You will find out how to:

• Master camera controls
• Use automatic and manual modes
• Change, focus, and zoom lenses
• Adjust picture quality and resolution
• Manipulate exposure and lighting
• Work with picture files
• Print and share photos

Complete with lists of ten photo–retouching tricks from repairing red eye to cropping photos and ten special–purpose features you can explore on a rainy day, Nikon D60 For Dummies is your one–stop guide to taking and sharing the pictures like a pro.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10889 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
Snap up this book and start snapping super shots with your Nikon D60

Your Nikon D60 gives you all the power of digital SLR photography in a compact, economical package. You don′t want to waste any of your camera′s amazing features, but if you′re new to digital photography or dSLRs, all the options can make your head swim. Here′s the fun and friendly way to get comfortable with every setting and every shooting situation! Get set up — find out how to work with lenses, navigate menus, and customize the camera to your shooting style

• Choose the right settings — find out which options work best for different subjects

• Take creative control — manage aperture, shutter speed, and other advanced features to manipulate exposure, focus, and color

• Review your results — check your images on the camera, download them, and organize them with Nikon ViewNX

• Share the fun — print or e–mail pictures, create a slide show, or make a stop–motion movie

Open the book and find:

• A guide to your D60′s buttons and dials

• Easy–to–understand explanations of technical jargon

• Secrets to getting the best picture quality

• Complete coverage of every camera feature

• Tips for shooting action, scenic vistas, portraits, and more

• How to shoot Raw files for ultimate picture control

• Ten terrific retouching tricks

• Flash techniques and other lighting tricks

About the Author

Julie Adair King has been writing about digital cameras and photography for over a decade. She is author of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as Nikon D40/D40x For Dummies and several other digital photography titles.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book
My experience with many "after-market" guides has almost always been that you get a book with the first couple of chapters dedicated to product that you have purchased, whilst the remaining 80% book is a generic guide on the relevant subject - in this case photography. I suppose that, in this way, the publishers and author can use the vast majority of the material for a range of different products.

What has impressed me with this book is that it is 342 pages dedicated solely to the Nikon D60. The illstrations are in large clear colour throughout, it contains frequent "screen dumps" from the information display on the camera, and all is explained in everyday language. This book starts where the manufacturer's hand book leaves off, and whilst the handbook tells you "what the camera does" this shows book shows you "how". I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone from beginner to intermediate level (which is after all the sector of the DSLR market the D60 aims to capture).

For my money this book is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, I am very pleased with it.

No longer a D60 Dummy
I never read any of the 'for Dummies' books before, but having decided to buy a DSLR and have a go at photography as a hobby I was overwhelmed with the complexity of my new Nikon D60. The Nikon D60 for Dummies book demonstrates how to use the camera in simple easy to understand terms with illustrations on every step along the way from the setting up the camera to learning how to use the advanced setting to get stunning shots. A book that I am sure I will refer to again and again in the future...

Nikon D60 for Dummies
The book is easy to understand and the step by step explanations are written in plan English and not all this technical jargon. So if you have a Nikon D60 is book, you should not be without it.