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D200 eBook covers. Art is actual size here and may be lifted directly from this group.
D80 eBook Covers and clip art:
eBook page design is inviting, easy to read and optimized for reader enjoyment. Many images are interactive. On this page, rolling one's computer mouse or pointer over the top image causes the view to zoom 11 X into the far statue, showing off the Nikkor 18-200mm Zoom lens's amazing range.
Pages of the eBook fit the horizontal screen of computers and laptops and may be printed on ink-jet and laser printers by the user. Images may universally be blown up to 200% scale in Adobe Reader (included for Mac and Windows platforms) and most can be blown up to 400% scale for tight, critical review. That's like holding a printed book about four inches from one's nose. In other words, the images here are far sharper and more detailed than any printed book.
D200 Fly Macro cropped image processed with one of the iHalcyon iNovaFX Photoshop Actions creating this complex image-muting darkroom effect on the right. Compare with original at left (shot with More Vivid image optimization).
The image looks normal. But it contains, and better yet--controls, highlights that are 1600% brighter than what the best JPEG can reproduce from any digital camera. This image is quite literally beyond the tonal dynamics of a film negative (!) and lies far beyond the realm of tonalities achieved by any transparency film ever made. Yet it looks perfectly natural and reasonable here. As it does to the eye when one walks around it. It's a brushed stainless steel building and its highlights are extreme, especially at dawn, as seen here. (Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. Los Angeles.) Not only that, but RAW images, which have about 300% better highlight handling characteristics than JPEGs, can't even approach this casually correct-looking image. It's even 500+% above RAW image tonal dynamics. Not even Photoshop's HDR technique could handle this situation. Here's a whole page about the technique and iNovaFX Actions (iDRv3-series) that complete the picture.
D200 image. But at what scale was the original subject? It looks like a toy truck, but the original shot was of a full-size vehicle. The iNovaFX Photoshop Action "iToy" was used to create the illusion. This Action requires extra skills from the photographer, allowing him or her to direct the area of apparent sharp focus with an airbrush. The extra skill places this Action in the Advanced Effect category. Image is larger than its display size here.
Each iNovaFX Action represents a complex digital darkroom process that expands the complexity of what photographers can achieve. Here, the iBCFisheye10-series Actions (iNovaFX Barrel Correction for Nikkor 10.5mm fisheye frames) turn full-frame fisheye images such as the one directly from the camera, left, into extraordinary hyper-wide-angle images with straight line perspective. These function with Photoshop 6 and higher and a series of six variations are included in the DSLR: Nikon D200 eBook.
Visual effects play a major role in professional photographic illustration these days. Much of the Nikon D200 eBook reveals professional contemporary techniques. A 34-page Digital Visions Gallery covers a wide range of D200 images and techniques.
DSLR: Nikon D200 is not affiliated with Nikon Inc. in any way, nor have they had any input to its editorial content. Except that they have been helpful in answering questions as the eBook was being produced. That said, we have included a huge, 18-page review of the best Nikkor lenses with recommendations for and against their use with the D200. Current Internet-researched prices are included and there are some surprising values to be found. While the math and sciences of digital photography may not be everybody's cup of tea, professionals and dedicated enthusiasts will be glad to see that the DSLR: Nikon D200 eBook doesn't skimp on the hard lessons. Here are some of the pages from the Depth Of Field area. Other tough subjects include absolute resolution and compression comparisons, photon behavior and how understanding that lets you analyze what you are creating. Included are advanced SB-800/600 flash techniques, which even Nikon didn't know the gear would--or could-- accomplish and lens options that nobody even dreamed were possible. Here's an example. Nobody --not any of the DSLR reviewers, not any author of any publication, not even Nikon's top people-- knew that a Nikon fisheye lens from the past could adapt to the D200 making a full circle, 184-degree image. Yet here they are, and the eBook reveals how to adapt the Nikon optics to make them. See this page for more downloadable images. (Image is larger than reproduced on this page.)
Two iNovaFX Actions at once. The circular iHaloCS2 effect on the image plus the iFilmBorder35 effect with titles generated in Photoshop (any version from PS 6 through PS CS2). The border is generated numerically and dimensionally exact. Finished images are over 4200 pixels wide and contain the full resolution Large Frame from the D200. Shadow, background color, text content and density are all editable when the Action is run. An alternate 35mm iFilmBorder35 cuts the film between sprocket holes. Note that as this image was being generated, text density was deepened for effect. Control of many image and presentation aspects is left up to the photographer's taste. Images here are wedded to a background gray of 68%.
D200 being used with three slave flash units. One filtered green, another red, and the one behind the vase was left clear. A pulse of camera flash triggered all three, but where did its light go? It has been subtracted, instantly, from participating in the shot. A special technique pioneered by Peter iNova has turned the camera into a wireless and invisible transmitter, synchronizing one expensive and two very inexpensive remote flash units (the two can be bought for under $20 apiece) all in the same instant. In order to do this you need to be armed with a bit of know-how and a pattern for cutting and bending a piece of black slide film which is now fitted to the camera in about four seconds. Total cost, including your time: 50 cents. How to do it? How to make it? How to fit it? How to use it? It's all in the eBook.
Other eBooks in the DSLR -series cover recent popular cameras. Art here is of various sizes. (Open in New Window) One purchaser reviewed his acquisition thus: "It has doubled the value of my camera." Complete series currently includes: DSLR: Nikon D200 DSLR: Nikon D80 DSLR: Nikon D70 DSLR: Canon Digital Rebel DSLR: Canon Rebel XT DSLR: Canon EOS 20D In production: DSLR: Nikon D40
Clip art: In the D200 eBook package are the eBook CD with High resolution and Ultra resolution eBook files. Each contains the whole main eBook but at 200% and 400% enlargement scales. The 200% version is for speed and the Ultra, 400% version is for ultimate detail. The 624 iNovaFX Actions are in 77 folders arranged by function. An 8-page full color booklet provides some initial instruction in shooting for later special effects and iNovaFX manipulations The cover inverts and becomes a handy color test chart with gray and chroma patches. It's flip side includes the white balance, in-camera, color filter targets. To understand that last idea, you'd have to read the eBook or the enclosed booklet. The eBook's removable cover flips over to display this handy gray scale and color chip cart which can be used to approximate camera performance evaluations.
DSLR: Nikon D200 clip art with cover image from eBook. The iNovaFX Photoshop Actions are all completely original and available nowhere else but in our eBooks. For the D200, they passed the 620 mark and eBook owners are given a special secret Internet page for new concepts, Action revisions and special techniques that have evolved since the eBook was finished.
Cross star images are like a haircut. You can't go back. What if you could "dial" them in... later? One series of iNovaFX Actions produce cross star filter effects that the photographer may control to precise degrees. A reversible haircut for images.
Extra Editorial Background Data: The DSLR series of eBooks was born of a necessity. The majority of photography books are basics, expansions on manuals, dry, procedural, technical and generalized. As a group, they don't give you the understanding and immediate tools to better your images with your particular camera and lens, highlighting the unique opportunities, qualities, controls, menu items and synergistic combinations that were there for you, if only you had known. What we really need is a knowledgable friend looking over our shoulders as we shoot, advising, chiding, challenging and bantering in creative ways, but after some research, we found that providing this as a service would be cost-prohibitive. So we made digital photography's first eBooks. It all started in 2000. Since then, readers have gone through the roof with complements. "eBook = eWOW!" posted one reader who will be equally remembered for his brevity and accuracy. "I cannot recall a product that has been released to the digital photography market with such unanimous acclaim," chimed in an early forum moderator. Beginners and experienced photographers alike have held our eBooks up to continuous acclamation. But enough of this puff. It's nice to be recognized, but the real story is in the reading. Photography can be technical. Pixels and photons, hyperfocal distance and guide numbers. It's enough to make you scream. But all that stuff is worth knowing about -- or skimming through -- so we make sure it's in there in a form that is easy to digest, or dig into if you feel like a meal. Animated examples, interactive illustrations and embedded movies bring the most opaque subjects into clarity. We feel it's our job to lift your eyebrows with interesting things on every page. Amplify Your Images™ The fun subjects are in there, too. How to get away with all sorts of things. Wireless invisible slave triggering for 50 cents, for instance. What lens to buy and what lens to avoid. How to amplify your images. Like this one from the Nikon D80: Sure, it's a sweet image, but who would guess that it's not a studio shot, but a journalistic car-show image captured with minimal preparation and processed through one of the iNovaFX Photoshop Actions that are included with every eBook at the Action's default settings. Actions are macros that let you apply dozens or scores of precise Photoshop manipulations to an image and the latest D80 eBook includes over 630 of them, all original, many custom to the camera and its optics. The process here is called iHalcyonMixed. Halcyon for the idyllically happy, graceful visual effect. Three other iHalcyon Actions are among the ones included. The DSLR eBooks target specific cameras. Canon and Nikon titles tackle six models at this hour (January, 2007) and every one of them show you how much more there is under the hood of your particular camera than the manufacturer told you in the Instruction Book. More eBooks are in production. DSLR: Nikon D200 is the fifth in the DSLR -series of eBooks by Peter iNova and Uwe Steinmueller. It is 632 pages of deep information on digital photography and especially the Nikon D200 camera from exploratory, historical, scientific, technological, artistic and experiential points of view. DSLR: Nikon D80 is number six in the DSLR -series, demonstrating how versatile and capable this camera can be. With a few pages more than the D200 eBook, it includes all the topics and special extras from previous volumes plus the evolved information that owners will appreciate. Prior titles cover the first sub-$1,000 DSLR, the Canon Digital Rebel (EOS 300D) which turns out to be way more capable than folks first thought. Canon Rebel XT (EOS 350D) and Canon 20D followed. The Nikon D70 volume, which was first in the series, has trained over ten thousand photographers and continues to sell well to photographers who purchase these cameras used. Each, being an eBook, is read on a computer, but ranges of pages may be printed out by owners for convenience. Tables and charts, for instance, often are bounded by dotted lines, urging the owner to print and clip the data as notes for one's camera bag. By reading it on the computer, the photographer can instantly try the thousands of concepts embodied in the eBook by simply clicking into an editing program running on the same computer. Images in the eBook take full advantage of the interactive possibilities contained within the advanced features of Adobe PDF files. Images may, for instance, be scaled up to 400% of normal viewing size in order to inspect and/or appreciate differences of detail, quality and visual comparisons. A huge number of images are interactive, allowing cursor rollover and click effects to occur. This makes numerous animations, A/B-comparisons and sequential in-place correlations easy to see. In several places embedded large-scale movies illustrate concepts that are more complex. Time-lapse images taken with the D200's expansive continuous frame mode and built-in intervalometer spring to life with a single mouse click. Photographers who desire to understand deep technical concepts will find them. Photographers who want to know when and why to implement any camera feature will find it here in a context of image gathering. Unlike the camera Instruction Manual, the eBook is constantly connecting the dots between features, controls, image gathering, composition, framing and the larger universe of digital image finishing and printing. Chapters for basic Photoshop, more advanced Photoshop, problem solving, visual effects, printing, camera and visualization practice are included. An entire separate volume of information, RAW Materials, from Uwe Steinmueller (digital photography's leading RAW image expert) is included. Information in the D80 / D200 volumes include Apple's Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom as well as a number of RAW image interpreters and how to get the best from them. Every eBook works completely identically on both Windows and Macintosh platforms and includes simple, advanced and highly professional instruction written in an entertaining but concept-heavy manner. One major purpose of the eBook is to improve the reader's skills. In order to do that in an entertaining manner high production values, interactive surprises, dramatic presentation and over 2000 images (D80 / D200 volumes) are employed to make the core concepts interesting and easy to absorb. DSLR-series eBooks cost $49.95 and readers recognize that's a bargain. Our instructional approach is rewarding, logical, fun and challenging all at once. We have designed these volumes to be read in or out of order. Adobe Viewer's latest version is included along with some interesting demo software we feel will be of value to photographers. Reader reviews since the beginning have borne out the value of this series and the titles that preceded it. Here are two, verbatim: "Three weeks ago I bought myself a D200 -- and one week ago I ordered your D200 eBook. I have now poured over it for a whole weekend, and just wanted to quickly compliment you for this truly excellent product! "I have learned a LOT from you in this work and I will certainly return to it now and then for refresher courses. "I'm a graphic designer and commercial artist by profession (I "live" in Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator) so I can really appreciate how you have used the PDF eBook format's many neat possibilities." --Klaus Nordby "I enjoy Peter's upbeat style of writing, hard to stop reading once you start. The book is loaded with wisdom, examples, experiments, and software. "No, it doesn't cover everything you could think of, it covers more than you could think of. It should keep you busy for many many months. Excellent value for the money. "The RAW workflow addendum by Uwe is also great. If you only are able to use 1/3 rd of this eBook it's still worth the price." --Warren Flarity And then, there was this: The beauty of the book is that as one scrolls through the pages using Adobe Acrobat Reader, the photographs come alive and everything is interactive. For example, when he lists the different mode settings, one only has to move the computer mouse over the image for the effects to be immediately shown. It’s something that could not be demonstrated as effectively in a printed book. Each entry in the index is clickable, so one can go to the page in question immediately, and naturally, the links to relevant websites are also clickable. Although the book is aimed at the enthusiast rather than the pro photographer, there is still plenty of information to garner from the book as iNova, with co-author Uwe Steinmueller, delves into the camera’s capabilities and foibles in minute detail. Aside from not being able to read this book in areas where it’s not possible to use a computer, this eBook offers much greater value than an equivalent printed book. --Rangefinder Magazine, November, 2006
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