Thom Hogan's
Complete Guide to the Nikon D40 and D40x

This eBook helps you master the use of the Nikon D40 or D40x digital SLR, with a complete description of all the camera features, plus lots of useful tips and background information. This is the work that should have been the manual! This eBook is a must-read for any D40 or D40x user, with over 600 pages of information about everything about how SLRs work, to how to use the camera and the software that accompanies it. This eBook is supplied on CD-ROM for $29.95 plus shipping and handling, and can only be purchased from this site. For more information about the eBook and purchaser comments, keep reading...to order it, see the top of the right-hand column.

• Organized to help you learn. The eBook is presented in distinct sections for what you need to know before using the camera (background and setup), while using the camera (shooting features), and after using the camera (what to do with your images, including how to use Nikon's software). Want a more concise carry-it-with-you guide? Just print the middle section and have it bound to take with you.
• A complete instruction manual and an introduction to relevant digital issues in one book. Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D40 and D40x manages to not only fully describe every feature of the D40 series in clear, easy-to-understand language, but gives you rich, technical background for many of the critical issues that confront digital camera users. First time DSLR users will get information about how DSLRs work. DSLR veterans will get insights into how to set their D40 and D40x for the best results.
• Nikon flash and autofocus modes explained in plain English! Wonder how the I-TTL flash works? Can't figure out the autofocus or metering systems and why they do what they do? Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D40 and D40x explains these terms and accompanying techniques in the same simple, no-nonsense language that made his Nikon Field Guide a best seller.
• Includes useful Photoshop Actions and Depth of Field spreadsheet. On the disc is Thom's Excel spreadsheet, which allows you to calculate depth of field and hyperfocal distance for any Nikon lens used with the D40 series (note that depth of field on a digital body like the D80 is not the same as it is for 35mm film). But that's not all! You'll also get Excel workbooks for macro and flash (know how to calculate the GN of multiple flashes or the effective GN when bouncing? You will if buy this book!).
• Includes an introduction to Capture NX. Capture NX is Nikon's raw file converter for the D40 and D40x (you can get a free trial download from Nikon), but it's idiosyncratic interface tends to keep people from using it. That's a shame, because it's a powerful tool that's actually very easy to use once you learn how.

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This eBook is mailed to you in CD-ROM form (Priority Mail in the US, airmail outside the US), and is in Adobe Acrobat format (requires free Acrobat Reader 6.x or later). I'd love to provide a downloadable version, but it's not practical at this time. The eBook is cross referenced with bookmarks for the complete Table of Contents. You may print a copy of the eBook you purchase for your own personal use.

This eBook is only available from this Web site and only as an eBook.

My review of the D40 and D40x .
Errata Page for the Complete Guide to the D40 and D40x (coming)