Mastering the Nikon D750 (The Mastering Camera Guide Series) Paperback – November 12, 2015

great book with helpful and easy to understand explanations

An excellent book, for an excellent camera. A whole lot of book for a whole lot of camera. The camera has more screens than a Hollywood movie. A lot to learn.After a year. Excellent book. One thing, it fails to say in plain English. Some controls/buttons do one thing in viewfinder and another in live view. Pay attention or experiment. Still learning camera. I do a lot of close up, useful info/FYI. You can use spot meter and move the spot point anywhere on the screen in live view, it is limited to the 51 point area in the viewfinder mode. The meter point is the focus point. So you can place the spot on a flower that is off center and it will meter and focus on the flower and not the background. The center weighted spot cannot be moved. Make sure and learn dif between Focus Mode and focus area, 2 dif things, similar names.

I recently purchased a Nikon D750 after a 20 year gap in SLR use. I "gave away" my old Canon 35 mm gear to a large and well known Nikon dealer using the small proceeds to help fund the D750. I have waited for a good quality full frame DSLR with decent tracking ability and some condescension to amateurs. Along came the D750! A shout out to DPReviews for their excellent analysis of this camera and it`s competition. My greatest fear is understanding the camera`s myriad of capabilities and of my ability to put them to use. I checked the owner`s manual and purchased a reputable field guide to the D750 but in my untutored and humble opinion Darrell Young`s Mastering the Nikon D750 blows them away. This book takes a step by step, cumulative approach to this camera system. As a beginner I don`t feel overwhelmed but rather hopeful that I am able to make slow and steady progress. Thank you Digital Darrell and thanks also to the Nikoneans Press. I will look to your publications should/when future needs arise.

As usual, Darrell Young's "Mastering the..." books are well researched and written. I've had the D750 for several months now and his book is helping me learn new things about the camera that I hadn't discovered yet.In order to avoid duplicating himself in multiple places in the book, he gives numerous references to other pages and chapters in the book that requires a certain amount of going back or forward in your reading to see what was being instructed. For that reason of going back/forth, it would be very hard for me personally to read this book in the e-book/Kindle format. That's why I purchased the hard copy.

This book is a terrific source of information related to the use of the Nikon D750 DSLR camera. I had this camera nearly a year before acquiring the book and have learned an enormous amount of detail as well as insight that was not obvious previously. I think that anyone who has written a previous review indicating that this book is just a step up from the Nikon issued user's manual has not actually read it.I would estimate that the first 3/4 of the book follows the hierarchy of the D750's various menus. If I were to offer a criticism, it would be that it does that. In my opinion, Nikon's sequencing of the D750 menus is strange. Why does the basic setup menu follow the custom setup menu? Why do these menus follow the playback, photo shooting, and movie shooting menus, respectively? Perhaps the author feels that it would be more confusing to sequence the book differently than the D750's menus. In any case, this is a triviality which I got quickly used to.

This book takes you step-by-step through everything the camera can do and every setting you can make. Although the Nikon manual did that, Nikon did not tell you why you would select one option over the other. This book explains the positive and negatives of each setting plus the reasons why. The author also explains which settings he prefers and why. The illustrations are in color and are far easier to follow than Nikon's. This reference greatly expands some of the more obscure capabilities of the camera. I read the Nikon manual first - and did not comprehend some of the techniques. This book explains everything in detail and covers items not even mentioned in the Nikon manual.You need this manual to appreciate your camera!The main reason I picked this manual over the many others was because of its affiliation with the Nikonians.

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When I bought my new Nikon D750 I ordered 5 Nikon D750 how to books. None of the first 4 books answered from simple Set to Indepth how to questions that I had until I opened the Mastering the Nikon D750 book and everything I wanted was clearly shown in this book. I've been taking photographs since the early to mid 1940s and have owned many different name brand cameras until I purchased the Nikon brand. I first purchased the D90, the D200, and the D300 which I used for years but the D750 left me with many questions which were answered clearly with this book. I highly recommend this book!