Yes there are a couple books, one is the Magic Lantern Guide to the D80 by Simon Stafford. There is also an instructional DVD put out by Magic Lantern as well. Theres also the D80 Field Guide by David Busch. This book is a little different in that it gives you more examples of using the camera in every day shooting as opposed to going into greater detail than the instruction manual does, with the Magic Lantern guide..

There's also a couple recommended eBooks available, one by Thom Hogan and the other by Peter Nova. Don't have either of those, but those who bought says it's really good...you won't get an actual book though, just a CD-ROM to view online.KelvinNikon D80, 18-200mm VR, SB-600 FlashGalleries (Taken with a Sony H5):.

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Up until 14 weeks ago I had the same questions as you seem to have, I think we all start at the same spot. I bought the eBook that was mentioned in the previous post by iNova. Seemed to help alot. I had never owned a SLR type camera of any sort previous, I came back to Oz two weeks ago from a trip to Europe with my wife and 4 kids and from experience, all 14 weeks of it?, the more you shoot and play around with the camera the better you get. I started by using the 'custom' settings ie sports, landscape etc and then had a look at the apperture and shutter speed and iso etc that the camera decided was best for theshot and after a while started using apperture priority only and messed around with that. The difference of the shots from the start of my trip to the last lot of shots that I took are unbelievable and I put it down to just shooting as much as I could, read as much as my wife would let me, I wish you all the best of luck and your biggest critic will most likely be you!!..

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I have Thom Hogan's D80 guide - I live in Australia and I received the CD within a week of ordering. You don't get a book, but you do get a CD with the guide and a few other bits and pieces on it. The guide is easily installed onto your pc..

Http://www.bythom.com/d80guide.htm.

The book is over 700 pages and is organised very well into three sections - before shooting, shooting and after shooting. The idea being that you print the middle section and stick it in your camera bag to take with you as you experiment. Although Thom also allows for you to print ONE copy of the book for personal reference if you wish..

There is a lot of info in the book but I did not feel overwhelmed reading it because it was so easy to understand and so well set out..

I also downloaded Ken Rockwell's guide (free) and it has some helpful hints... but you get what you pay for and that's why his is free (IMHO, I do not mean to insult anyone). But it may be a good place to start, you will certainly not finish there though..

Http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d80/users-guide/index.htm.

I have not got the Peter Inova one but have heard good things..

But the nest way to learn as others have said is to practice - that's my favourite thing about moving to DSLR - it does not cost me anything to practice and I get immediate feedback. EXIF means I always know exactly what I did in every photo so I know how to do the good things again and how to correct my mistakes. It'll take time but you will have so much fun doing it!.

Good luck fallingphotogirlSydney, Australia.

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I endorse the recommendations of the Thom's book..

I also suggest that you take a couple of weeks to get more used to the camera then shoot a few things in RAW plus JPEG and use the trail version of NX to change the settings in RAW and what difference it makes one rainy day. That is as good practice as many weeks of shooting!Chris Elliott.

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I had Kinko's print Thom's book double sided in B&W, then decided which pages really needed to be in color. I printed those myself, double sided, replaced the Kinko monochrome pages, then had Kinko trim and bind the book in the three sections mentioned. I carry the "Shooting Pictures with the D80" section with me and have the other two at home for reference. I think the total cost for printing and binding was about $50 (US). If you have an appropriate PDA, you might be able to load the whole book on it and have it at hand in a very compact form.Art Caputi..