Howdy, from Texas!

Marvigal · Mar 5, 2015

My name is "Marvi" and I'm very happy to have found all of you! I have a LOT of questions and hope to benefit by all of the accumulated experience and wisdom here. I am pretty much a newbie to dslr photography, and have made the jump (more like a death-defying leap) from a Nikon Coolpix L810 to a Nikon D7100. Now I am wading through "Menu World" trying to get the camera set up. Since the Nikon manual is so hard to follow, I purchased another very user-friendly manual and am now having good success at getting the camera set up. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your community here!

Zen1300 · Mar 5, 2015

Welcome from Texas... I'm also fairly new to this forum.

I purchased my D7100 just before Christmas, coming from the D80. Not quite the leap you're taking, but enough differences I, too, looked at sources other than the manual.

I purchased both of these in Kindle edition.

Nikon D7100 - From Snapshots to Great Shots, John Batdorff

Mastering the Nikon D7100, Darrel Young

I found that together they were just what I needed.

Looking forward to seeing you around.

snerd · Mar 5, 2015

Howdy & Welcome!!

Marvigal · Mar 6, 2015

Marvigal said:
My name is "Marvi" and I'm very happy to have found all of you! I have a LOT of questions and hope to benefit by all of the accumulated experience and wisdom here. I am pretty much a newbie to dslr photography, and have made the jump (more like a death-defying leap) from a Nikon Coolpix L810 to a Nikon D7100. Now I am wading through "Menu World" trying to get the camera set up. Since the Nikon manual is so hard to follow, I purchased another very user-friendly manual and am now having good success at getting the camera set up. Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your community here!

Zen1300 said:
Welcome from Texas... I'm also fairly new to this forum.

I purchased my D7100 just before Christmas, coming from the D80. Not quite the leap you're taking, but enough differences I, too, looked at sources other than the manual.

I purchased both of these in Kindle edition.

Nikon D7100 - From Snapshots to Great Shots, John Batdorff

Mastering the Nikon D7100, Darrel Young

I found that together they were just what I needed.

Looking forward to seeing you around.

Hi, Zen1300!

I got my camera just before Christmas, too, as my Christmas present. Reading the owner's manual was like trying to read Chinese, so I ordered the same book you did from Amazon, Mastering the Nikon D7100 by Darrel Young. I found it to be an outstanding book. It took me a while to get through all the menus, but it's been worth it.