David Busch's Nikon D5500 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide) Paperback – Illustrated, 30 Nov. 2015

This book is like an encyclopedia for the D5500. I'm new to digital photography so this book is a pillar of new knowledge for myself.

Great starter book on a beautiful camera

Great book, with a lot of usefull tips, about photography in general, not just the D5500 camera. If you have a D5500 camera, then this book is a must.

If you are NEW to digital photography then this book is worth 4.5 stars to you, so why have I gone for 3? In truth, it is now 2016 and just about all ex film photographers have switched to digital. Certainly, everyone NEW to photography will have a plethora of technique books, and books about the principles of aperture, shutter speed, flash, modes and lens choices available to them. David has taken a 'formula' approach to this book, and if you are looking for a D5500 book, you may find the content focuses a lot on principles, not so much on the camera.I have owned five of these books, all for different models, and some of the content, photographic techniques and even photographs are the same in some sections of the book. By this one, I felt I had read the book a few times already, before I even opened it, and had to leaf through it to find the camera specific areas I was most interested in.Don't let my 3 star rating put you off buying it, but if you are on your third, fourth, digital camera (or even 5th, 6th etc) much of what you'll find in these pages you will already know in fair detail, and find it tedious other than the camera specific content. If you are on your first camera, and it is a D5500 let me first congratulate you on an excellent choice of a truly great camera in it's class. If this is you, then you should buy the book, and no doubt you will rate it much higher than 3 stars (as did I when I bought the D5000 version of this book a few years back)Hope this helps, it is sincerely written to help, if you need something that focuses ONLY on the D5500 maybe this is not quite the right book. Otherwise, go for it.