That’s right, I have a new book available: Mastering Nikon Video.
My latest book is intended for Z System camera users that struggle with understanding what Nikon did to support video, and how to get the best video results out of their camera. Yes, Nikon says just flip the Live View switch, but there are a ton of consequences and things to deal with when you flip that switch. This book explains everything you need to know about recording video, and in a way that you can understand.
With Mastering Nikon Video I’m doing something a little different than I normally do. Typically once I’ve finished writing a Mastering book, I both spend some time doing a deeper edit on it as well as pass it by a few well-chosen readers to see if there are things I need to flesh out more. This time, however, I’m releasing the book immediately upon completing the full, initially-edited version. I’m doing that for two reasons:
- “Explain video more” has been the number one book request for quite some time among my customers. They know my visual creator background actually started mostly with filmmaking and video, and they want to learn everything I know about that, not the simple video instructions I provide in my Complete Guides. In releasing this book a bit earlier in my process than I typically do, I’m trying to satisfy all that pent up demand I’ve been ignoring.
- I have several aspects of the book I want to work on more, but I’m first curious as to whether readers agree with what those are or have other video issues they want me to address. I’d rather spend my next writing efforts filling in gaps or adding explanations that you need rather than relying upon my own ideas of what might benefit from some more work. Since I provide free updates when I do revise a work, you’re not really losing anything by getting this early version.
I should emphasize, while this is an early version, it’s a complete, finished book. I step through everything you need to know, providing both background and reasons why things are as they are in Nikon’s video implementation. That means addressing every VIDEO RECORDING menu option and every g Video Custom Setting. But it also means a complete history and explanation about frame sizes, frame rates, compression, plus much more. Three additional areas of typical confusion (exposure, focus, and tonal choices) are all dealt with directly with their own chapters. I’m confident that everyone who gets this book will be learning something about Nikon video that they don’t already know.
While the printed page count may seem short (~270 pages in paperback PDF format [I also supply an ePub file for ereaders]), I’ve tried to be direct and concise with this book, as I want you to really read it from start to finish. Again, I have my own ideas about where I might eventually expand and elaborate it for future versions, but I really want to hear your opinions before I tackle fleshing everything I can out of the “mastering video” title.
30 fps and be there...