Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide

Great book at a great used copy price. Have used it the last few weekends when taking the used D7000 out to shoot I recently received. While I am familiar with dSLRs, I'm not familiar with the D7000 menu system or where it stores all its various functions. The index in this book is pretty well done. I was able to find quickly the references to different, more advanced functions I needed. Instructions on how to change camera settings are clear, concise, and basically step-by-step. Magic Lantern Guides have never failed me before and this one hasn't either.

Nikon's manuals that arrive with your camera are pretty good, but they do leave a lot to be desired if you're relatively new to photography and don't understand all the technical terminology. The D7000 Digital Field Guide takes you through all the camera's features and functions in plain English with clear explanations, examples, and specific recommendations to help you achieve the best results with the camera. Experienced photographers will find it useful as well, but this inexpensive paperback really takes the mystery out of learning your way around the D7000 if you find the manual a bit confusing. And the second half of the book is devoted to more general principles of photography including basic and intermediate-level concepts, as well as specific recommendations on supplementary lenses and equipment that will help you get the most out of your D7000. The book is well organized, clear and concise with copious illustrations, and highly recommended.

This is the first book about the D7000 out and it came out really fast, which is fantastic because the owners manual is unreadable unless you are looking up very specific information about the camera. I haven't finished reading the book but so far I have found a number of errors which make me doubt if the author actually had a D7000 in hand when he wrote the book! There are button combinations that don't exist (try the flash bracketing). The first chapter is missing a diagram of the upper display panel and refers to a non-existent diagram towards the end. Not all the different symbols and icons from the display panels are shown. The author/publisher leaves it to the reader to figure what the text is really describing or referring to. Overall this is a good effort and a second, corrected edition should be issued free of charge to address the mistakes. I don't mind if we get a kindle edition and not paper, but accuracy is Essential!

You need this book if not a pro. A pro tells what each feature is and how to use it. Most manuals leave out the how to part. The buttons and switches on the body make it much easier than a cheaper DSLR. Even so, it requires study to master it all. Book arrived in New condition. It is a great reference tool for D7000. Gives a lot of ideas and suggestions. I would pay 3 times $9 price. These DSLR's are so packed with features, the should come with a tutor!! This book is it!

Excellent book to have with you in the field, less comprehensive than the factory manual but well organized and useful.

At Christmas I upgraded to my new D7000 from a D5000. This book was invaluable in beginning to learn my new camera and continues to be a nice reference for me. Its small size lets me carry it in my camera backpack where I can get to it quickly when needed. It was an early reference for the D7000 and was published several months before others were even scheduled for release. In spite of that it is well-written and organized. My learning curve was very much shortened because I had it to use. The included grey card and color card was a nice addition. I have the 'Dummies' book that I got when I bought my D5000. It was good and very helpful - but I think that this 'Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide' is even better.

Although the manual provided with the camera is relatively complete, especially when compared to one for the D5100, Thomas' Field Guide provides additional discussion and many useful hints and warnings. This Guide is written from the point of view of an actual user of the camera and provides a more entertaining introduction to the technical information that the user needs to know. The Guide's format and sequence of information presentation are different from the manual and these may also assist the learning process. I bought the electronic version for two reasons: (1) electronic search for specific topics is faster than paper searches; and (2) it's small enough to carry around on my phone, so it's always where I can use or refer to it.

The Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide is an expensive diversion from the Nikon D7000 User's Manual, which I think is more useful. Thomas's Digital Field Guide looks like it was written by someone who had not gotten around to doing much field work with the camera. By the predominance of good reviews, I guess the market for this book is pleased, but it looks to me like a perfunctory effort to capitalize on the release of the Nikon D7000 by offering an illustrated manual, albeit one that has less information than the Nikon D7000 User's Manual, which comes free with the camera. One example: The D7000 has two categories of focus commands, Autofocus modes (Auto, Single, and continuous-servo modes) and AF-Area Modes (single-point, Dynamic-area, 3D tracking and Auto-area AF modes). The nomenclature is confusing, but the system is logical once you've worked with them. (You can read this for yourself in the Focus section beginning on page 91 of the Nikon 7000 User's Manual.) In the Digital Field Guide, Thomas assures us (see page 43) that in Auto-area AF mode, the "camera has a better chance of focusing where you want it than accidentally focusing on the background when shooting a portrait. Normally, I tend not to use a fully automatic setting such as this, but find it works reasonably well when you shoot candid photos." This is a baffling conclusion. In fact, the Auto-area AF mode is not so reliable in finding the human subject in a picture. For example, in Auto-area AF mode, if the background object is a stop or two brighter than the human foreground subject, the camera will as often as not choose to focus on a background object. More importantly, you can not move the focus point in the viewfinder using the multi-selector, so you can't correct the mistake. A more reliable option is to shoot one of the other AF modes (Single, Dynamic or 3D Tracking). Any of these let you move the focus point, when necessary to correct the focus point chosen by the camera, using the multi-selector (the large round circular controller on the back of the camera). In regard to exposure using the example I just gave, where a background object is brighter than the foreground human subject, you would do better using the Spot metering mode, which measures the light at the current focus point (see page 105 of the Nikon manual). Thomas doesn't pick up on this; he seems to trust that the Matrix metering option is smart to enough to correct these situations (see pp. 42-43 of the Guide). In the wedding photography I've been doing, Matrix metering on the D7000 isn't so reliable. I'm interested to see if the new D7000 books that are coming out reflect more substantial field experience with the camera. The Digital Field Guide seems to be a book that was rushed to publication, maybe to be first. In my experience, the Guide doesn't add value to the free default option, the Nikon D7000 Users Manual.

Der Digital Field Guide für die Nikon D7000 ist in verständlichem Englisch geschrieben, sofern man schon eine gewisse Routine beim Englisch lesen hat. Der Autor erklärt nicht nur die Kamera gründlich, wie im Handbuch ja bereits geschehen, sondern gibt auch zahlreiche Tipps zu deren Benutzung, wie der Titel "Field Guide" schon andeutet. Wenn auch nicht alle Fotos von großem künstlerischen Wert sind, so zeigen sie doch gut was der Autor beschreibt. Interessante Ausflüge in die Optik erklären auch manches auf physikalischer Ebene - kein "Muss" aber meist wirklich wissenswert. Ein sehr interessantes Buch für den Nikon D7000 Besitzer, sofern er nicht schon zahlreiche fotografische Kenntnisse und das beiliegende Handbuch "auswendig" gelernt hat. Es wird ein breites fotografisches Spektrum an Hand der D7000 abgedeckt, welches allerdings auf Grund der begrenzten Seitenzahl nicht allzu sehr in die Tiefe geht.

This book helps me more understand my camera,good book.

A book for those new to this excellent camera. Its not too big or small in size so can be packed into a camera bag for quick reference. It also has useful cards that can be removed if the book cant be carried with camera. As said by others this book may not be of use to those that have a lot of experience in handling DSLR cameras. My teenage daughter tried out this camera from her uncle but didn't understand a lot of what this camera had to offer, so took a chance and got this book which she likes. Now she has got a good used D7000 and finds this book very handy and a lot easier to read than the supplied Nikon hand book, Recommended

There are many books out there for Nikon D7000 camera, and this is a good one amongst those. Detailed and easy to implement. Quality is great. The price seems to be higher but it’s worth it.

Excellent book for learning the D7000 tips, tricks and more. It as helped me many times on the field. Easy to use as a quick reference handbook. A must for all Nikon D7000 owners.