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Another D70 Book......

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:03 pm
by Greg B
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04101 ... _ebook.asp
or
http://www.gmbooks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

Saw this over at dpreview. It looks pretty good, comes with lots of Photoshop actions.

"DSLR: Nikon™ D70 is a new eBook from authors Peter iNova and Uwe Steinmueller."

According to the quoted press release, it has:-

"Fourteen chapters in two volumes cover the things D70 photographers want and need to know:

Digital photographic technologies
Historical perspectives
Color and optical theory
Basic / intermediate / advanced digital image manipulation
RAW image conversion for the D70 by Uwe Steinmueller
D70 Camera system operation (camera, lenses, flash)
The top 45 D70 photographic problems and their solutions
A 22 exercise self-guided digital photography course
Digital printing
Digital special effects production
35 Vexing questions (advanced problem solving)
iNovaFX Photoshop Actions for the D70 system
Interactive Appendix with live Internet links
Index
D70 Gallery of images from 13 D70 photographers"

It isn't cheap at US$49-95 plus shipping (but apparently with a US$6-50 discount off the postage for dpreview readers), but it does look interesting.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:20 pm
by birddog114
Greg,
Saw and ordered it two days ago, should be in my hand by Monday next week.

Cost AU$78.00 straight into my PO box.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:36 pm
by Greg B
Birdy,

I will be very interested to hear your review of it.

cheers

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:49 pm
by ajo43
I am half way though Thom's book and it is pretty good. The thing that I liked the look of in this book is the that the book contains lots of hyper links to updated material, actions and sample pictures.

In other words, it seemed more 'high tech' than Thoms book.

I also liked the blurb about 'work arounds for common problems'

Keen to hear what you think

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:54 pm
by louiek
For those of you who prefer a local supplier, the official supplier of the e-books in Australia (as described on inova's site) is Hipper Multimedia in Melbourne(http://www.hipper.com.au)

They have it for pre-order at $80 plus postage

That is where I bought my coolpix v5 ebook.

Louie

PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:27 pm
by birddog114
louiek wrote:For those of you who prefer a local supplier, the official supplier of the e-books in Australia (as described on inova's site) is Hipper Multimedia in Melbourne(http://www.hipper.com.au)

They have it for pre-order at $80 plus postage

That is where I bought my coolpix v5 ebook.

Louie


I rang them on Monday, they said no stock until mid November and price is $80.00 + $15.00 postage charges.
I ordered direct and it's $78.00, I'll have it by Monday, I win do I?

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:50 am
by gstark
Birddog114 wrote:I'll have it by Monday, I win do I?


Game, set, and match

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:03 am
by birddog114
I had lot of experiences with few local suppliers for a products which they're from many firms in o/s, especially in the States, they said they have local suppliers in our country, but once I rang, they said stock has to be ordered or I have to pre-order. If I go direct and purchase from their parent's website, I'll get:
- Cheaper price from 1/3 to half price than our local quoted.
- Order and paid online, I'll have my order quicker than back or pre-order from our local guys like my previously posts.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:56 pm
by louiek
My post was intended to show the option for the D70 owners that wish to order the e-book, but prefer to not use, or do not own a credit card.

Louie

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:45 pm
by Glen
That's the beauty of here, we get a wide variety of opinions and options brought to our attention. Thanks Birddog and Louie

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:47 pm
by Raydar
Glen wrote:That's the beauty of here, we get a wide variety of opinions and options brought to our attention. Thanks Birddog and Louie


& this is a good thing!!!!

Love this forum :D

Cheers
Ray :lol:

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:54 pm
by birddog114
louiek wrote:My post was intended to show the option for the D70 owners that wish to order the e-book, but prefer to not use, or do not own a credit card.

Louie


Louiek,
Please don't get me wrong, I only want to let members know that we can get quicker by direct online if someone's interested and in hurry like me, also expressed my experiences when placing order with local suppliers but they can't fullfill the demand and much variation of our local pricing in comparison with direct online.