Over 200 pages of secrets. Packed into the world's first high resolution Photography eBook™.

Things you never knew.

Things Nikon never knew.

Things that will surprise you and things that will help you through every moment as the Nikon 990 and 950 reveal their secrets into your eyes.

All of this is packed into a super resolution eBook that contains images so high in quality that you can blow them up on screen by 300% without losing resolution or running into pixels! Each chapter is much larger than the largest PDF file you've ever experienced on the Internet but downloading into your computer only takes a few seconds. And it interactively takes you from ideas to related ideas with a click of the mouse.

Mastering Nikon Compact Digital Cameras contains a photography course that will unleash your awareness of composition, design, color, form, balance, timing and point of view.

Here is eye training specially geared to the unique opportunities these cameras make possible. Beyond the course, a universe of technique, technology and possibilities opens up to let you master not just the cameras but your own sense of photographic prowess.

Would it surprise you to know there's a one hand technique called THE GRIP that will keep the camera in your hand steadier than holding it with two hands?

Would you be amazed to learn that you could travel all over the world carrying dozens of color filters for the Nikon 990/950 IN YOUR WALLET? Filters that couldn't possibly scratch, smudge or break? Color filters that were as reflection and flare free as the lens of the camera itself?

This eBook has all of them for you in it. Ready to use right now.

How do you make a Nikon digital camera shoot at 2-6 times its native "film speed"? When does boosting sensitivity work and when doesn't it?

How do you get a deep film-level dynamic range from an electronic camera that has only 2/3 the tonal dynamics of film? The book gives you step by step instructions to achieve the full dynamic range of the best film right from the Nikon 990 and 950.

Would you like to have a pocket size telephoto lens on your camera that takes 900mm shots of the Moon? Want to shoot through the really big telescopes? Learn how.

Did you ever use a tripod to suspend your camera out over, say, the side of a boat so you could include the boat in the shot? Thinking Outside the Pod is here.

Would you be shocked to learn that you can shoot anamorphic (Cinemascope) images with the Nikon Digitals?

Two images can become a 3D picture if they are shot properly. How can you do this from 28,000 feet?

How many of you ever shot a fisheye picture in INFRARED? I didn't think so. Would you like to know how?

Did you know that these cameras shoot pictures good enough for 35mm motion picture special effects animation? Would you like to know it from somebody who's done it?

Would you like to see a gallery of outstanding images from photographers all over the world who are shooting with the Nikon Cameras for pleasure and even some of the most prestigious fashion photography around? The book has images from the Nikon CP 950 and 990 camera made by professional photographers Satterwhite, Versace and Taki as well as amazing images from talented enthusiast photographers all over the world.

Would you like to shoot with a wireless flash trigger? Would you like to have one that is practically free? I don't want to misrepresent this, but would a dime be too much to pay?

What are the four ABSOLUTELY VITAL accessories that Nikon doesn't make? And how can you get all four of them for under fifty dollars?

There is so much lore, techniques, tips and help spread throughout the book that we needed a way to alert you to the goodies as you scan through the text. Voila, the InfoBite was born. When you see this symbol at the beginning of a paragraph, you know that a clue to a photographic mystery is close at hand.

Mastering Nikon Compact Digital Cameras will add immeasurably to your own digital camera skills, your knowledge of your camera, your ability to use digital features to their maximum and it will help you PRINT results so good looking that people will never know they were digital.

The Nikon 950 and coming 990 are veritable feasts. This book is the dessert, after dinner mint and night-cap all rolled into one.

On the CD are all the files needed to read the book on your computer and instantly access all of its software with just a mouse click. Here are all the special Photoshop filters that have never been available before. This is software designed exclusively to fix certain Nikon 990/950 image issues. Say goodbye to barrel distortion in architectural shots, for instance.

There are special files here that help you practice making panoramics without going outside of Photoshop. No need to get less than perfect results when you can create truly excellent images using the program you already have.

What? You don't have Photoshop? Photoshop is the only image manipulation program that exists on the same high level that these cameras occupy.

When Adobe found out about this project they wanted you to play, too. So on the CD is the latest Official full Photoshop Demo!

Now everybody else in the photographic software business wanted you to see their stuff. The CD is full of software from Altamira Group, Genuine Fractals, Q-Research, Panorama Tools and others. It's stuffed with fun and learning.

There are even iNovaFX files that will rescue shots you made outdoors when you forgot to take the white balance off of incandescent! In fact 20 brand-new Photoshop filters cover your worst color-wrong nightmares any way you can accidentally dream them up!

Add to that a whole herd of Photoshop filters for image improvement, repair, enhancement and special effects and your camera will feel like it grew a new set of features.

A whole new world of color is unfolding all around you. Make sure you know the secrets that will let you capture it with your Nikon.

There are dozens of ways of getting the image that Nikon's documentation never reveals. Here's an information toolkit that will have you dreaming up your own techniques in no time.

Coolpix 950!   For owners of the very capable 950 with its 2 megapixel imager and extra compact styling there are hundreds of techniques, settings, tips and opportunities to expand on your experience of these cameras.  96.261+% of the book applies to both cameras.

Coolpix 990!   For owners of the new 3.34 megapixel Coolpix 990, the special techniques and capabilities of this camera are revealed in depth. With over three million image sensors, the CP 990 makes images for full page magazine reproduction and its advanced manual settings, focus guides, histographic displays, fast ergonomics and rapid sequence imaging provide dozens of new capabilities.

Coolpix 880!   The newest Nikon benefits greatly from the eBook as well! About 87.473% of the book and software will help owners of this hot new camera, too.

Mastering Nikon Compact Digital Cameras is written by photographer, author and frequent contributor to Nikon web forums all over the world, Peter iNova, Creative Director of Metavision Digital Studios.

Peter - - - your posting sets a new standard for helpful commentary. Thanks for this and other contributions.
-David Anderson

I just wanted to thank you for all that I have 'GLEANED' from your messages on this forum. I have been an amateur photographer since I was a kid...taken many classes etc....but nothing on digital.
When are you going to write a book? Guess I will have to keep reading this forum! I do have the CP950. Love it! I'm anxious to try the panoramas etc. So MUCH FUN! Again... just thought you deserved a BIG KUDO!
-Joan K.

 Just wanted to comment "off board" on your messages to the Nikon Tech Support CP950 board.
  I've enjoyed the lighthearted humor and the rumor deflating messages. I seem to having about the same experience with my 950 as you, basically most of the flaws in my photos come from the photographer not the camera, and my Epson prints consistently fool everyone into believing that they're 35mm.
  I also appreciate your attempts to offer solutions and reasonable explanations w/o resorting to flames.
-Larry W. Rau

Keep up the good work in the forum, your experience and input is priceless. Thanks again.
-Al Yarberry

I've got to tell you I really get a kick out of your posts! There's got to be a lot of folks out there like me who really enjoy them!
-James Whiteman

I really appreciate the attention you have expended in helping me for the past several months at Askey's place. I'll set up a page when I'm satisfied with the results of my photos and put a link here at the forum.
-Robert Patterson

(Upon hearing about the coming book) Wow! I can't wait. Thanks so much for the heads up. I'll be one of the stampeding horde that drives it to instant backorder status. Cool.
-Kevin Lennon

Thanks again for taking time out of your day for my question. I've read lots of your threads on Phil's site and appreciate your time. Out of curiosity, have you considered writing on digital photography for any of the websites or printed magazines on the subject? You have an easy to read writing style that allows you to explain some rather advanced concepts in terms a layman (read: guys like me) can understand.
-Jim Muehlheim

Mr. Inova, damn(!) you are good. Why do we even need Nikontechusa!!!! :) I suspect it was something like what you explained but being a 950 newbie I wasn't sure. I came that close to sending it back for an exchange. Whew! Thanks for your thorough explanation. I have printed your reply for my reference library on my 950. Much thanks!!!!! :)
-M. K. Wong

Peter, I'm new to the digital photography world, and I just wanted to thank you for the info you provide through the Nikon Forum. Your replies are always informative and never condescending. For us newbies, that's a treat. You're obviously very experienced with the CP950 and with digital photography. Thanks for providing us newcomers with the benefits of your experience. And thanks for having the patience...and interest....in helping others learn. Don't know what you do for a living, but you sure come across as a professional photographer....and an excellent teacher (with a great sense of humor). Thanks for that.
-Tom Caperton

When I wrote you earlier, I had not seen the digitalsecrets.net site, but I checked back later, and was was just plain THRILLED to see that you are bringing out a book!
Plus, now that I happened onto the galleries section of dpreview I feel REALLY dumb to have written asking if you had a site to view some of your photos!
Alrighty, then...don't want to take up any more of your time...time that could be used to finish up the the book!
Thanks again,
-Jim Carper

Reading your posts from time to time on this forum, it is clear that you have a lot more knowledge about digital cameras than is found in the typical consumer books available on the subject. I currently have 7-8 digicam books, but none get into the nuts and bolts as you sometimes do in your posts.
There is a 90% overlap of the material in the books I have plus downloads of Dennis Curtin's tutorial and the Kodak tutorial. The reason I have purchased so many books is to get that little bit of info that a particular book may have that the others do not. Even so, it is obvious that some folks out there know a lot more than the total sum of what is available by purchasing every consumer digicam book on the market.
The question is, where does that knowledge come from? Are there books available through other than normal consumer channels that go into more detail on digicam operation? If so, can you provide titles and sources? If not, how did you become so knowledgeable and how can others gain this same knowledge other than collecting info from an infinite number of forum posts?
-Rodger Carter

New book? You are going to write a book on how to use the 990? WOW!!!!! Maybe I NEEEEEEEEEEEED this book! Available?
-Theresa Price

Well, Theresa, Rodger, Jim and the rest, we are doing our part to bring this book your house as fast as we can. Our publisher realizes that the same old 90% isn't the Big Fizz anymore and that the world is moving at Internet speed. So now we're cooking. The eBook debuts this month.

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