In have been eying the Nikon D90 DSLR for the better part of three months. At the start of March, 2010 Nikon Rumors reported some deep online discounts were in the works and with my birthday pending at the end of the month I pulled the trigger and purchased a D90 camera kit including a Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VRII all around lens from B&H Photo Video. Much to my joy even my wife approved the purchase. Now that the easy part is done it’s time to learn how to use this interface monster.

Set up with a 16G SDHC memory card and a decent B+W lens filter I spent my first day poking around for D90 learning tools and culled the following list:

• Nikon D90 manual
• Nikon D90 Digitutor videos
• Ken Rockwell’s Nikon D90 Users’s Guide

This probably sounds trite but reading parts of the manual, especially the camera body layout and control panel diagrams, taught me a great deal. After shooting some pictures around the apartment I drove to one of my favorite outdoor haunts, Eldorado Canyon State Park, for an afternoon of milling around the trails with an itchy trigger finger.

Fowler Trail Hikers

One dream begins as another ends