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Title: A Short Course in Nikon Coolpix 950 Photography by Dennis P. Curtin ISBN: 1-928873-01-4 Publisher: ShortCourses.com Pub. Date: 10 May, 1999 Format: Spiral-bound List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.14 (7 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Poorly written generic book
Comment: I bought this book because Thom Hogan's on the same subject failed to come out when promised last Fall. Curtin's book is nothing more than an adaptation of his book for the 990 which, although shares a lot of features with the 995, it is not the same camera. Pictures on the book are bad. He uses gray scale pictures to demontstrate the camera's color features. It is clear that Curtin used a word processor's find/replace feature to "convert" his book to the 995. Even that was done poorly. You are better off trying and failing while learning to use your camera's features. Reading this book will not get you much closer to knowing much about the 995 than just playing with the camera yourself. After all, you need not pay anyone to develop your pictures!

Rating: 2
Summary: Photo Class Manuscript
Comment: Mr. Curtin's book looks like it was used at a community college photography class and then zeroxed poorly. The photos are pretty grainy for a book on digital photography. If you are using this book as a resource guide, subjects are hard to find. Granted, Nikon camera guides are often poorly translated and difficult to understand, but this book doesn't clarify a lot of things. For example, I use an off-camera Nikon Speedlight in a lot of my photos, and it took me 6 weeks to figure out how to turn off the built-in camera flash but still fire the external flash. I finally found the answer on the internet. If this book were selling for ..., it might be worth it.

Rating: 3
Summary: Some decent info for the beginner, but poorly printed
Comment: This book is self-published. In other words, Dennis prints the pages from a laser printer and then binds it. As such, the photos do not look that good. It looks to me like an HP PCL printer driver in the banding/speckling, so the photos look "digitized" and not smooth.

Dennis, switch to a Postscript driver and halftone those graphics and photos. That would make the photos and graphics much smoother in the final print.

Some decent info, but nothing earth-shattering here. I think the poor printing has turned off a number of readers, but the content is still OK, especially if you are a beginner. I have been shooting with SLRs for a while, so I was not that impressed, but it did have a couple of CP950 tips that were valuable.

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