David Busch's Nikon P7700 Guide to Digital Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty 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 photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
Digital camera manuals can all too often be described like the title of the old 1966 Spaghetti Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." The one that comes in PDF format on a CD with the Nikon COOLPIX P7700 is no different, and the problem is that there's too little good and a lot that's bad and ugly there.That being said, David Busch's Nikon P7700 Guide to Digital Photography is the manual that we all wish came with the camera, but didn't. Open the pages of this 332-page book and you'll see that the difference between this and the original Nikon documentation is vast, and it's backed up with excellent color photos, diagrams and illustrations throughout.Authors David Busch and Peter K. Burian have delved into the inner workings of the P7700 and presented us with a guide that's written in everyday language, easy to read, yet going into enough depth to offer even the most technically astute advanced user a fast track on how to use this camera.The information you'll find between the covers is broad, yet it's well organized. Open the book, and after the Preface and an interesting Introduction, covering the background behind the Coolpix P-series, we're presented with a book logically broken down in two major parts as follows, with multiple chapters in each section:PART I: Getting Started With Your Nikon Coolpix P77001. Your New Nikon Coolpix P77002. Taking Your First Coolpix P7700 Photos3. Nikon Coolpix P7700 Roadmap4. Setting Up Your Nikon Coolpix P7700PART II: Getting The Most From Your Nikon Coolpix P77005. Fine-Tuning Exposure6. Advanced Shooting with Your Nikon Coolpix P77007. Movie Making with Your Nikon Coolpix P77008. Getting the Most from Your Zoom9. Making Light Work for You10. Useful Software for the Nikon Coolpix P7700GlossaryIndexAs noted earlier, the extent of the information between the covers is broad, yet well organized. Within each of the chapters there's enough to get the new user started, yet for those of us who ventured into the P7700 soon after it was released, there's enough here to find something new that hasn't been tried before.As in the other books from David Busch, the glossary is well done, and even for those who think that they understand the terminology, there may be some interesting terms that are clarified. The index is also done very well, and to a depth that that this reader and photographer wishes that other authors would emulate. The authors had collaborated before with the earlier David Busch's Nikon Coolpix P7100 Guide to Digital Photography, but as informative as that title was, this one is even better, as if they have taken things to a higher level in their way of explaining things. Inside the covers you'll find a real roadmap to the Nikon P7700, a complete coverage of the controls and features done in a very readable and succinct fashion. As you move on, you'll delve into shooting techniques, from basic to advanced, and HDTV movie-making with this camera are covered as well.As a reader, I was first introduced to the author with David Busch's Nikon D5000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography in 2009 after I had that camera for a few months. I had gone through the Nikon manual trying to figure out why I was having shutter lag, and within a few minutes I found the solution. I ended up reading it cover to cover, and it made life with my then-new D5000 a lot easier. This book on the Coolpix P7700 does it all in a smoother and more refined way.Among the topics covered here are some excellent discussions on the various SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards, and the author goes so far as to suggest specific types, sizes and even brands that have proven to work well with the P7700, and why. For this user, I could have saved more than the cost of this book with my own SD card experiments, as the original Nikon manual barely touches the subject except to say what is compatible. Also covered are the author's experiences with memory card readers on both the Mac and the PC, and I concur with the issues found on my own MacBook Pro.There's a lot of good info here, and the book includes a very helpful a troubleshooting guide, and lets face is: eventually some small problems will show up. And within the information in this guide is a discussion on the Nikon EN-EL14 Li-Ion battery, right there in the first chapter. Just read it and follow the author's expertise on this, as he's 100% correct when it comes to the P7700.Summary:It's all too easy to say that David Busch's Nikon P7700 Guide is the book that Nikon should have included with the camera, but they didn't. If you're new to the P7700, before you buy a case, some small bundled accessory kit, or a spare battery from a third-party reseller that may not work (and yes, that's in the book), save your money and buy this book; you'll be glad that you did. If you're an experienced shooter and already think you have mastered the P7700, you'll probably find some pleasant surprises between the covers of this book. As you might have guessed, this one is highly recommended to Nikon P7700 owners, regardless if your level of expertise; a true essential to put it simply. You can get your other accessories later.3/14/2013
