Title: Adequate, but not great
Product review: This is an OK addition to the manual, but it seems that the author simply took his D70 field guide book and performed a search & replace D70 -> D50. At times, it's really embarassing and one wonders whether there was any kind of proof reading. As an example, the book shows a picture of the 18-70 mm "kit" lens of the D70, but with the caption claiming this to be the 18-55 mm D50 "kit" lens. The author also talks about features that the D50 simply doesn't have, such as the field-of-depth preview button, the metering mode button, etc. The book doesn't go beyond the manual at any time. One could have wished for a more rigorous treatment of subjects such as f-stops. After reading the book, I don't feel that I learned anything new about photography in general, or the Nikon D50 in particular. At least I didn't spend a lot of money on this picture book;-)
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