Nutshell summary: A hugely useful resource, that will guide you to your own customized D3 or D3x setup. Cogently explains the complex AF system of the D3/D3x.
If you want to learn your Nikon, really learn it, Thomas Hogan has something for you. For the D3 and by implication the D3x there's a package consisting of a booklet —reviewed today— and a CD.
"Welcome", says Thom, "to the concise version of the Complete Guide to the Nikon D3 ... the main eBook stripped to the bare essentials".
The booklet, D3 to Go, is a guided tour of the trees rather than a map of the forest. But it's still darn useful. The BIG clearly labelled diagrams of every button, control and LCD panel are a relief for middle aged eyes. They're also a quick way to figure out what a cryptic display means.
Then there's the obligatory a guide of the menus, an explanation of the Custom settings with details on the way the settings banks are configured by default. Did you know that Bank D is set up for sports photographers?
For every feature of the camera, Thom tells you not only what settings are available, but which are advisable. In particular, the recipes for Nikon autofocus, especially "The Pro Approach to Autofocus" are priceless. There's also a discussion of flash setup.
Sometimes, Thom does score a miss. In the depth of field tables the distance units are not specified. Pray tell, are those meters, Monsieur Thom, or feet, Esquire Thom? And, no guide to the PictBridge printing system, although this is definitely something you use in the field. Then the typesetting is really amateurish, it shows up worst in the TOC and index. Surely, Thom could hire some help here to design templates; would he have his wedding shot by his cousin?
Let's not waste more time finding minor faults with this very deserving Guide. This one comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I'll review the eBook when I work up the courage to load the CD. Although I love books I do hate reading them on screens.
Edmund
If you want to learn your Nikon, really learn it, Thomas Hogan has something for you. For the D3 and by implication the D3x there's a package consisting of a booklet —reviewed today— and a CD.
"Welcome", says Thom, "to the concise version of the Complete Guide to the Nikon D3 ... the main eBook stripped to the bare essentials".
The booklet, D3 to Go, is a guided tour of the trees rather than a map of the forest. But it's still darn useful. The BIG clearly labelled diagrams of every button, control and LCD panel are a relief for middle aged eyes. They're also a quick way to figure out what a cryptic display means.
Then there's the obligatory a guide of the menus, an explanation of the Custom settings with details on the way the settings banks are configured by default. Did you know that Bank D is set up for sports photographers?
For every feature of the camera, Thom tells you not only what settings are available, but which are advisable. In particular, the recipes for Nikon autofocus, especially "The Pro Approach to Autofocus" are priceless. There's also a discussion of flash setup.
Sometimes, Thom does score a miss. In the depth of field tables the distance units are not specified. Pray tell, are those meters, Monsieur Thom, or feet, Esquire Thom? And, no guide to the PictBridge printing system, although this is definitely something you use in the field. Then the typesetting is really amateurish, it shows up worst in the TOC and index. Surely, Thom could hire some help here to design templates; would he have his wedding shot by his cousin?
Let's not waste more time finding minor faults with this very deserving Guide. This one comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I'll review the eBook when I work up the courage to load the CD. Although I love books I do hate reading them on screens.
Edmund
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