Introduction

Throw away your cheat-sheets and command cards! Are you tired of squinting at tiny color-coded tables on fold-out camera cards? Do you wish you had the most essential information extracted from my comprehensive David Busch’s Nikon V1 Guide to Digital Movie Making and Still Photography and David Busch’s Nikon J1 Guide to Digital Movie Making and Still Photography in a size you could tuck away in your camera bag? I’ve condensed the basic reference material you need in this handy, lay-flat book, David Busch’s Compact Field Guide for the Nikon V1/J1. In it, you’ll find the explanations of why to use each setting and option—information that is missing from the cheat-sheets and the book packaged with your camera. You won’t find the generic information that pads out the other compact guides. I think you’ll want to have both this reference and my full-sized guide—one to help you set up and use your Nikon V1 or J1, and the other to savor as you master the full range of things these great cameras can do.