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Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide

Author: J. Dennis Thomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 19395

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 0470045272
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.72
EAN: 9780470045275
ASIN: 0470045272

Publication Date: January 12, 2007
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

Neither One Thing Nor Another September 4, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I was looking for something that expanded upon, and made more easily comrehensible,the instruction manuals that came with my SB-800 and macro flash systems. What I wasn't after was an idiot's guide to using flash. Unfortunately, the latter is what I got.
The book would be excellent for someone starting out to use a flash system for the very first time, needing advice and guidance on bounce flash, guide numbers, posing, ideas for subjects etc. I seriously doubt that there are too many people with an SB-600/800 who have those needs.
The book dwells at tedious length on composition and subject ideas. It does give technical detail about using the system, but it is both irritatingly moronic in its assumptions about the reader and lacking in adequate technical detail to do much to expand on the instruction manual.
The book deals, it says, with the Creative Lighting System. In fact, beyond a cursory mention a couple of times, it does not deal with the innovative macro-flash system at all. Users of D70/80/200 cameras with built in Speedlights fare a little better, but the emphasis is definitely on the SB-600/800 guns.
I'd recommend using the money you don't spend on this book on a few sets of batteries. Get used to the instruction manual and go out and experiment. The book is a waste of money for the majority of its supposed target readership.

5 out of 5 stars

Very Highly Recommended May 17, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I bought this book as I had struggled with the unreadable and frankly incomplete user manual supplied by the manufacturer (and I am fairly technical!). This book is clear, concise and accurate. It gives just enough information, no more, no less, to get you operating your SB600 or SB800 on and off camera, and wirelessly. It also gives some common senarios, with detail of how to light them. I very highly recommend it - it has moved my photography a giant leap forwards. Nikon should give this book with each light!

2 out of 5 stars

Not very useful February 1, 2007
17 out of 18 found this review helpful

If you can handle the small text and monochrome of the Nikon manuals (pages 71 - 106 for the SB800), and you have time to surf the forums at photo.net, or nikonians.org, you'll learn more than you can from this book. Much of it is dedicated to photography generals not specific to the Nikon Creative Lighting System (e.g. posing techniques, using flash outdoors, etc.) and for these things there are other books that are much better (e.g. Steve Bavister's 'Lighting for Portrait Photography').