Etika di Saat Bercinta

Memberi dan menerima merupakan kunci keberhasilan hubungan seksual. Namun memberi dan menerima di antara pasangan satu dengan pasangan yang lainnya akan berbeda. Beberapa "aturan" penting di bawah ini bisa anda pertimbangkan dengan pasanagn, agar etika seksual dalam hubungan intim bisa berjalan lancar dan memuaskan.

BERSIH MENGAIRAHKAN

Jangan memulai "foreplay" apalagi persetubuhan jika tubuh anda masih bau keringat dan kotor. Apalagi bau rokok, minuman keras dan bau makanan yang menimbulkan rasa tidak sedap. Akan lebih baik jika anda membersihkan badan anda,mandi dan kalau perlu memakai parfum kegemaran pasangan anda agar anda tampil mengoda dan mengairahkan.

JANGAN MENOLAK

Permintaan untuk melakukan sesuatu tidak hanya berlakuku bagi pasangan-pasangan yang baru pertama kalinya bercinta saja. Jika perlu serahkanlah pada pihak wanita, kapan dia hendak melakukan penetrasi. Hanya wanita yang tahu kapan dia benar benar siap untuk menerima

HINDARI PEMAKSAAN

Jangan marah, mengumpat atau mengkritik. Seks yang di warnai dengan umpatan bukanlah seks yang sehat. Jangan "main" terus tanpa seijin pasangan. Seks yang di lakukan tanpa keuinginan kedua belah pihat sama saja dengan pemerkosaan.

EKSPRESI KEPUASAN

Ketika Pria sudah mencapai puncak, itulah akhir dari kegiatan seks anda. Namun wanita bisa memperoleh klimaks berkali-kali. Sebaiknya anda memastikan bahwa pasanganya sudah memperoleh kepuasan terlebih dulu. Itu adalah tindakan yang bijak. Mengetahui bahwa anda sudah berhasil memuaskan pasangan akan memberi ekstra kepercayaan diri.

5 Langkah Menambah Kekuatan Pria

Seks itu indah. Pepatah itu selalu di perdengarkan oleh banyak orang. Namun bagaimana orang bisa menikmati bahwa seks itu indah jika kondisi tubuh tidak memungkinkan untuk enjoy menikmatinya. Berikut ini langkah langkah yang bisa di lakukan Anda lakukan menuju pada kapasitas seksuil yang sepenuhnya. Jika anda melakukannya dengan teratur dan sesuai dengan perencanaan yang di tentukan, nescaya akan mendapatkan kepuasan.

1. PENJAGAAN KESIHATAN TUBUH

Sebagai langkah pertama, kesehatan tubuh, termasuk makanan, latihan dan istirahat (tidur). Tiga bagian ini merupakan kesehatan umumnya. Dalam hal makan usahakan dalam penyajian makanan sehari-hari memenuhi syarat kesehatan dengan menyajikan makanan yang mengandung protein, karbohidrat, lemak, vitamin, dan mineral.

2. MENDAPATKAN NAFSU BERAHI

Sebagai langkah kedua. Seseorang yang keletihan sambil istirahat mendapatkan nafsu cinta. Dengan pernafasan Yoga yang dapat menambah potensi seksual dengan ekstra latihan. Dengan kata lain jika tubuh anda sudah rileks dan irama nafas sudah normal, pikiran anda terbuka dan menuju pikiran yang anda inginkan.

3. PENGGUNAAN FANTASI SEKS

Dengan menggunakan daya imaginasi anda sebelum melakukan hubungan intim Anda secara tidak langsung mengobarkan kembali fungsi yang paling atas. Memang itu terkadang hanya mimpi belaka, namun jika anda mewujudkan fantasi anda dengan pasangan anda maka anda akan merasakan fantasi anda dalam kenyataan yang sebenarnya. Semakin anda bisa mewujudkan fantasi tersebut maka kekuatan anda untuk melakukan hubungan intim akan semakin kuat.

4. SUGESTI SENDIRI TERHADAP EREKSI

Anda dapat memeriksa ereksi sendiri. Anda dapat juga mempertahankan komputer ingatan selama melakukan hubungan intim. Karena itu tanamkan dalam diri anda bahwa hanya andalah yang bisa memuaskan pasangan anda. Dengan begitu kekhawatiran anda untuk gagal akan hilang dan berunah dengan kekuatan seperti yang di inginkan pasangan.

5. MENAMBAH POTENSI

Dalam langkah kelima, Anda dapat memnemukan daerah erotis melalui pandangan, pendengaran, penciuman, sentuhan atau rabaan dan bujukan. Karenanya sangatlah penting jika seseorang selalu menjaga tubuhnya agar tetap kelihatan indah. Bahkan akan lebih baik jika saat melakukan hubungan intim memakai parfum. Namun yang lebih penting adalah jangan terlalu tergesa gesa dalam melakukan hubungan intim. Lakukan pemanasan dengan berbagai macam cara. Jika pasangan sudah berada di puncak gairah barulah lakukan "tugas" anda dengan baik.

6 Kunci sukses mencapai kenikmatan dalam berhubungan Seks

Hubungan Seks yang sejati bukanlah sekedar hubungan fisik, melainkan merupakan penyatuan tubuh, jiwa dan pikiran. Kehidupan seks yang memadai dan sehat akan membuat tubuh seimbang. Sebaliknya jika gairah seks menurun, berarti fisuk anda sudah lelah atauanda sedang stres.

Kegiatan seksual merupakan kebutuhan pokok hidup yang harus mendapatkan tempat utama bagi mereka yang sudah resmi menjadi pasangan suami-istri. Sebab tanpa seks kehidupan akan berjalan hampa dan kering.

Adakalanya salah satu pasangan engan un tuk melayani keinginan pasangannya berhubungan intim, dikarenakan kegiatannya yang begitu banyak sehingga membuat tubuhnya terasa penat dan kecapekan sehingga tidak berhasrat dengan seks.

Padahal kegiatan seks ini harus tetap lestari dan seimbang. Kegiatan ini sebaiknya dilakukan minimal satu kali dalam seminggu. Untuk itu, agar anda tidak terbawa dalam situasi penurunan gairah ini, ada baiknya bila anda melakukan terapi sedini mungkin. Berikut ini beberapa tip atau kunci untuk mencapai kesenangan ketika sedang melakukan hubungan seks :

1. Untuk mencapai kenikmatan maksimal dalam berhubungan seks, anda harus stabil dan kuat secara fisik, mental dan emosional. Bila salah satu dari ketiga unsur tersebut ada yang kurang maka dipastikan kehidupan seksual anda akan terpengaruh.

2. Seks yang hebat bukan sekedar kenikmatan yang hebat, tapi dipercaya bisa memperbaiki kesehatan dan vitalitas, serta kekuatan imunitas tubuh anda.

3. Seks haruslah selalu murni dan alamiah. Murni artinya adalah ungkapan kasih sayang yang tulus diantara keduanya. Kalau tidak maka akan menimbulkan ketidak puasan, yang dapat menimbulkan gangguan kesehatan. karena seks yang tidak alamiah menyebakan tubuh rentan terhadap berbagai penyakit dan infeksi, seperti deman, bronkitis, dan radang paru=paru.

4. Jangan berlebihan dalanm berhubungan seks. Ada baiknya hubungan seks dilakukan sekali dalam seminggu (saat musim kemarau) dan lebih sering saat musim penghujan. Terlalu seing berhubungan intim akan mengurangi energi vital tubuh dan membuat tubuh melemah dan mudah di serang penyakit.

5. Sesuaikan waktu anda untuk melakukan segala sesuatu, termasuk juga untuk merencanakan bermesraan. Biasanya malam hari adalah yang paling baik. Terutama setelah mandi dan cuaca lebih sejuk. Musim dingin merupakan waktu terbaik untuk berhubungan seks. Kondisi sejuk tidak hanya membuat aktivitas seks lebih menyenangkan, tapi tubuh juga memiliki energi yang tersimpan untuk melakukan hubungan.

6. Ada beberapa jenis makanan yang berkhasiat meningkatkan gairah seksual. Seperti bawang putih dan bawang bombay. Demikian juga dengan kacang mete mentah dan tawar, almond dan kacang pistachio yang bisa meningkatkan energi. Giling sekitar 3 butir dari setiap jenis kacang tersebut dan didihkan bersama susu sapi full-cream. campur minuman ini dengantiga butir saffron ( bumbu khas makanan spanyol berwarna kuning, tersedia di toko yang menjual bumbu masakan india) simpan dalam kulkas sebelum di minum.

Trik Memainkan Payudara Wanita

Apa yang paling mengasyikan bagi seorang pria dengan payudara pasangannya? Anda tentu sudah bisa menerka jawabannya. Memang semua laki-laki normal pasti suka bermain-main dengan buah dada atau payudara pasangannya.

Memulai pemanasan dengan memainkan payudara memberikan kenikmatan tersendiri baik bagi pihak pria maupun pasangannya. Mencium, menjilat, melumat dan menghisap payudara pasangan merupakan sensasi tersendiri yang tentunya hanya Anda dan pasangan saja yang bisa merasakannya.

Hanya saja memainkan payudara diperlukan keahlian tersendiri. Selain hal di atas, ada banyak hal yang bisa Anda lakukan pada payudara pasangan Anda. Alangkah sedih pasangan Anda jika anda tidak bisa atau tidak mengetahui trik yang benar dalam memainkan payudaranya.

Langkah pertama bisa anda mulai dengan meraba sambil sesekali meremas payudaranya. Lakukan dengan gerakan memutar. Anda juga bisa sesekali menciumi payudaranya sambil membisikan kata-kata pujian akan keindahan atau kekencangan payudara pasangan Anda. Ingat wanita sangat suka mendapatkan pujian dari pasangannya. Pujian Anda bisa membuatnya semakin bernafsu dan terangsang.

Hal selanjutnya yang bisa Anda lakukan adalah dengan menjilati puting susunya. Sentuh bagian ujung putingnya dengan lidah Anda. Lakukan dengan pelan dan lembut. Basahi bagian puting dan sekitarnya dengan air liur anda dan bayangkan anda tengah menikmati es krim yang sangat lezat dengan lidah dan bibir Anda.

Dalam kondisi basah puting susu akan terasa "hangat". Lalu mainkan lidah Anda pada puting ke kiri, ke kanan, serong sana serong sini. Hal ini pasti akan membuat pasangan Anda mengeliat karena nikmat yang tidak tertahankan. Tips lain untuk merangsang bagian toket adalah melakukan kombinasi antara ciuman, jilat, remas dan sedotan.

Selanjutnya Anda bisa mengigit putingnya tapi jangan terlalu keras, kecuali jika putingnya termasuk tebal dan besar anda bisa sedikit keras mengigitnya. Namun demikian Anda tetap harus berhati-hati karena puting payudara merupakan daerah yang sangat sensitif. jangn sampai gigitan Anda justru menyakitinya.

Pada saat mengigit mesra itulah pasangan Anda akan merasakan kenikmatan luar biasa. Ingat jangan terlalu lama dan keras mengigit karena nanti puting akan terasa perih. Kalu terasa perih anda bisa menjilati dan membasahinya lagi seperti sebelumnya. Dengan demikian puting susunya akan adem kembali.

Hal lain yang bisa anda lakukan adalah dengan "memakan" payudaranya. Yang di maksud memakan di sini bukan anda makan seperti anda memakan makanan tetapi adalah dengan cara mengenyot gelembung payudara pasangan yang telah mengeras karena terangsang.

Lakukan perlahan-lahan, atau Anda bisa melakukan teknik dengan "mengunyah" payudara dengan memainkan tangan Anda dengan remasan lembut di sekitar daerah payudaranya.

Buat wanita, apa yang anda lakukan tersebut adalah seperti seorang bayi yang tengah menyusu pada ibunya. Lakukan semua itu dengan penuh kelembutan. Sensasi permainan lidah, bibir dan mulut serta tangan anda di payudaranya akan menimbulkan sensasi kenikmatan hebat yang akan semakin merangsang nafsu birahinya.

Tips Hubungan Seks

Tips ini sangat sesuai digunakan pada malam pertama. Pada malam pertama, lebih-lebih lagi untuk melakukan persetubuhan dengan pasangan isteri yang masih dara merupakan suatu cabaran yang terpaksa ditempuh dengan sabar oleh pasangan pengantin.

Persetubuhan yang dimaksudkan untuk memecah dara perlu dilakukan dengan lemah lembut dan bertimbangrasa. Ini akan menolong meminimakan rasa kesakitan isteri sewaktu dara terkoyak menerusi tusukan pertama.

Cara yang disarankan oleh orang Melayu ialah, suami duduk bersila setelah melakukan istimta’ yang secukupnya. Isteri didudukkan menghadap suami dalam keadaan mencangkung dan farajnya berada di atas zakar.

Di sepanjang posisi ini dilakukan suami tidak memainkan peranan yang aktif, tetapi hanya mencumbu dan membelai isteri bagi meningkatkan kenikmatannya.

Zakar dihalakan ke arah lubang faraj, kemudian isteri akan memasukkan zakar ke dalam liang farajnya dengan memandukannya dengan tangannya dan kemudian menekan farajnya ke arah kepala zakar dan memasukkan zakar sedikit demi sedikit. Isteri akan berada di dalam keadaan nikmat dan sakit yang meningkat dan menurun semasa proses memecah dara. Isteri akan membuat pilihan, dia akan menekankan farajnya agar zakar masuk lebih dalam apabila nikmat yang dirasainya lebih hebat dari kesakitan. Isteri akan berhenti sejauh mana dia merasa kesakitan lebih hebat dari kenikmatan. Bila kenikmatan meningkat kembali, dia akan menyambung kerjanya itu, agar zakar dapat masuk lebih dalam. Dengan cara ini akhirnya dara terkoyak, dan kemudian persetubuhan akan diteruskan dalam posisi yang lain atau dihentikan lalu dilakukan pada masa yang lain.

Kenikmatan pada isteri masa memecah dara itu dapat ditingkatkan dengan cumbuan dan rangsangan dari suami ke arah buah dada, pinggang, tengkuk, leher, mulut dan telinga isteri. Dalam ertikata lain, suami perlulah melakukan cumbuan yang berterusan agar isteri itu lupakan dirinya dan kesakitan. Menghisap lidah isteri adalah amat baik dilakukan pada ketika itu.

Komen: Ia memang sangat sesuai digunakan ketika memasukkan zakar ke dalam faraj isteri buat kali pertama. InsyaAllah sangat nikmat, lagi-lagi jika suami isteri melakukan french kiss ketika proses tusukan zakar ke dalam faraj.

Client Access License (CAL)

If your company's workstations are networked, you will utilize a network server and the workstations on the network will access that server(s) software to perform certain functions such as file and print sharing. In order to legally access this server software, a client access license or CAL may be required. A CAL is not a software product; rather it is a license that gives a user the right to access the services of the server.

Due to the technical nature of server products, CAL licensing can be a complicated area. We have created the following information to help you determine the need for CALs. This guide is for reference purposes only and should not be used for purchasing decisions. Before purchasing you should visit the "How to Buy" section for each product and consult your local reseller.

The table below provides information on a variety of Microsoft Server products and the licensing of CALs as it relates to those products. Before you read about how CALs apply to each product, referring to the sections of this guide on "Per Seat", "Per Server", "Per Processor", and "Per User" licensing will be helpful.

	Per Seat Licensing
	Per Server Licensing
	Per Processor Licensing
	Per Mailbox Licensing Per Seat Licensing With Per Seat licensing (sometimes referred to as "Per Device or Per User"), you need a separate CAL for each unique device (or user, if applicable) that accesses the server to avail of services such as file or print or to run Microsoft server applications. Once you choose to deploy a Microsoft server product in Per Seat mode, your choice is permanent. The following is a diagram illustrating Per Seat licensing: Diagram 1 - Per Seat Licensing Per Seat licensing is available for the following Microsoft products in the server software pool: Class Server Exchange Server Office Project Server Office SharePoint Portal Server Office Live Communications Server SQL Server Systems Management Server Terminal Server Windows Rights Management Server Windows Server Windows Small Business Server Per Server Licensing With Per Server licensing, a specified number of CALs are associated with a particular server. The number of devices that can legally access that server simultaneously is limited in Per Server licensing to the number of CALs purchased for that particular server. For example, if your organization chooses to deploy Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in Per Server mode, purchasing 50 CALs will allow up to 50 unique devices to be connected to that server simultaneously. Because CALs in Per Server deployments are not permanently associated with a specific device, if your organization adds another Windows Server, and remains deployed in Per Server mode, separate Windows Server CALs will be required to access the second server. With Per Server deployments, the system administrator designates the number of CALs that apply to the server during setup, based on the number that has been purchased for that server. The following is a diagram illustrating Per Server licensing: Diagram 2 - Per Server Licensing Per Server licensing is available for Windows Server. Per Processor Licensing Some of the server products are available Per Processor. Under the Per Processor model, you acquire a Processor License for each processor in the server on which the software is running. A Processor License includes access for an unlimited number of users to connect from either inside the local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) or outside the firewall. You do not need to purchase additional server licenses, CALs, or Internet Connector Licenses. Per Mailbox Licensing If you are an education customer using Exchange Server, you have the additional option of deploying licenses in Per Mailbox mode. With this model, you acquire one CAL for each unique mailbox accessing Exchange Server. If you choose the Per Mailbox mode, you may not later change to Per Seat mode. However, if you initially choose the Per Seat mode, you may transition one time only to Per Mailbox mode. This choice is then permanent.

Introduction To Nikon D3000

The Nikon D3000 is a new entry-level digital SLR camera designed to make photography simple and accessible. Aimed at the complete beginner, the D3000 is primarily aimed at anyone who wants to take photos without having to worry about what the camera is doing. The intelligent Guide Mode asks you about the image you want to capture and automatically optimizes the settings for the best possible results. When you’ve gained more experience, you can then use the Guide Mode to find out how to adjust the settings yourself. The Nikon D3000 also features a 10.2 megapixel sensor, EXPEED processing system, 3-inch LCD screen, 3 fps continuous shooting and 11-point autofocus system. The D3000 is available now for £429.99 / €522.00 body-only or £499.99 / €607.00 / $599.95 with the 18-55mm VR kit lens.

Ease of Use

Rather than packing entry-level digital SLRs full of extraneous features that most of their target audience will never use, it seems manufacturers are now majoring on winning over owners of camera phones and compacts and introducing them to the more professional results achievable via DSLRs - with, they state, the minimum of fuss. A case in point is the new beginner targeted D3000 from Nikon, which upgrades the existing D60 model and is little brother to the pricier D5000, which most notably has the added features of video and vari-angle rear screen.

For a body-only suggested UK retail price of £429 (or £499 with 18-55mm VR zoom supplied for our review), for the first time its maker has included what it's calling an Intelligent Guide mode, selectable via the otherwise familiar chunky top plate mode dial. This feature 'talks' - via explanatory text on the rear LCD - nervous novices through which settings need to be selected to achieve various desired results. Within this feature there's a menu choice of either 'easy' or 'advanced' operation - the latter getting more creative with advice on how to blur backgrounds and freeze motion.

The theory is that greenhorns are provided with an on board tutor and that, as they 'play' more with the camera, their knowledge level will rise and hopefully their picture taking improve. It's a neat idea that might just actually work - provided, that is, said novice doesn't just casually stick the D3000 on auto and point and shoot.

Aside from the on-board hand holding that helps set it apart (though Sony's A380 recently attempted something similar), the Nikon D3000's other main features include a 10.2 megapixel DX format CCD sensor, fixed 3-inch, 230k dot resolution back plate monitor, 3D subject tracking and 11 auto focus points spread across the frame - the latter being impressive specification for an entry level DSLR, especially as the D60 made do with a mere three AF points. Also slightly better than average for its class is a maximum continuous sequential shooting speed of three frames per second; thus equipped the D3000 therefore comes across like a snapshot model on steroids.

What this camera misses out on however is Live View plus a top mounted second LCD window to quickly review/alter settings; both to be found on admittedly pricier models higher up the Nikon range. As mentioned at the outset, there's also no HD video nor HDMI connectivity, but as this is the new budget model, such omissions are hardly surprising. That said it seems inevitable these features will trickle down to even entry-level models such as the D3000 before too long - a case in point being that you do get on-board dust reduction in the form of automatic sensor cleaning, activated on powering down the camera as a default.

Front	Rear

Held in the palm, the D3000's plastic resin construction body is only fractionally larger than Panasonic's DSLR-styled GH1, which of course also prides itself on being a marvel of miniaturization. With the 18-55mm zoom attached it's still sufficiently lightweight to, if required, fire off a shot single-handed, though gripping it in both hands of course feels more natural and acts an additional (to the VR lens) steadying influence, since like the rest of the range no built-in anti shake features.

One thing to note when you pick the Nikon D3000 up and start using it is that, though the grip is sufficiently sized for the three lower fingers to mould comfortably around it leaving the forefinger hovering over the shutter release button, the eye relief for the optical viewfinder doesn't jut out very far, which means the user's nose is pressed up against the LCD screen when using it. Said viewfinder is however sufficiently large and bright to get a good idea of detail when utilising manual focusing.

And, with the on/off switch surrounding the main shutter release button, with a thumb flick users can be up and shooting from cold in just over a second. The Nikon D3000 is equally swift to find its target courtesy of 3D subject tracking and 11 auto focus points spread across the frame, with whichever is/ are in use indicated when the shutter button is depressed to the half way point. Go on to take the shot and there's no discernable shutter lag - a full resolution JPEG committed to memory in two seconds, a RAW file in three and combination of the two taking just a mere fraction longer. So far so good then.

While front on the Nikon D3000 is visually unthreatening, the on-screen user interface you're presented with is surprisingly busy, and the more you delve into using the D3000 the more you realize it is no purely 'auto everything' camera. Incidentally, turn the camera on its side and said information display will also flip through 90° so it can be seen the 'right' way up. For those who do want to get hands on, an additional degree of creative control is provided by a Picture Control menu to be found within the camera's logically laid out and easily navigated on-screen folders - letting the user select the well saturated colours of 'Vivid' mode for example in preference to the more naturalistic Standard or Neutral - plus monochrome and pre-tweaked settings for portraiture and landscapes.

In-camera retouching is additionally offered as an alternative to editing images once downloaded to your desktop, with a new miniature mode ape-ing the effects of tilt and shift lenses in rendering people when viewed from on-high as like toy figures in a model village. Adjusted images are saved alongside the original file, with the ability to adjust colour in camera and warm up formerly 'cold' images proving particularly effective.

Front	Rear

Unprocessed RAW file format shooting is present as an alternative to, or can be captured in tandem with, regular JPEG. However if you choose to shoot both together, only 'basic' quality JPEGs can be captured rather than the maximum 'Fine'. As expected at this level, pictures are committed to SD media card or higher capacity SDHC, and the built-in sensor cleaning prevents any undesirables intruding when swapping lenses and otherwise showing up as dust spots on images.

The competent Nikon D3000 includes the D-lighting feature consistent throughout the Nikon DSLR range, which automatically adjusts to even out tricky exposures - for example bright backgrounds and dark foregrounds that would otherwise result in a silhouette. Otherwise it's very easy to just activate the pop up flash to fill-in any shadow detail, with a hotshoe provided for attaching an optional flashgun.

Taking a tour of the Nikon D3000 in more detail, the front is obviously nominated by the Nikon F lens mount, above which sits the built-in flash. Set into the slope of this are two operational buttons - the first logically for calling up the available flash options on the rear LCD, selected in tandem with a twist of the rear command dial that naturally falls under the thumb. The second button calls up the camera's self-timer.

Beneath this sits a prominent, springy lens release button, and, moving over to the other side of the camera we find a combined AF assist illuminator, self-timer and red eye reduction lamp nestling between the grip and the sloping ridge of the flash. Underneath the familiar red Nikon 'slash' on the grip itself is located an infrared receiver for use with an optional remote.

The top plate of the D3000 is similarly clean and unfussy, dominated by the aforementioned mode wheel, which clicks into place at each setting with just the right about of 'give'. Arranged around this are some 13 settings, comprising the grouped creative quartet of program, shutter priority, aperture priority, plus manual, the Intelligent Guide, and full Auto modes. We also get a dedicated flash off mode, so it won't automatically pop up and fire even if the lighting is poor (the flash can also of course be deactivated by pressing the dedicated flash button and twisting the command dial to the 'off' setting). Finally, six pre-optimised scene modes are thrown into the mix: portrait, landscape, child, sports, close up (macro) and night portrait, so if you want to purely point and shoot you can.

Top	Bottom

Just forward of the mode dial, sitting behind the shutter release button - itself surrounded by an on/off switch - are a pair of large and identically sized buttons - the left marked 'info', with a single press logically bringing up the information display on the rear LCD that appears anyway upon power up, and the right for adjusting exposure compensation; here a broader than average +/- 5EV. Again, any adjustments are effected with an in tandem turn of the command dial, to be located top right of the camera back.

Incidentally, while the eyelets for attaching the provided camera strap are located on opposite edges of the top plate, rather than on the sides, unlike say on the Olympus E-420, these are never close enough to where you put your fingers to get in the way - even with the strap itself attached. The final thing to note on the camera's top plate is the obviously accessory shoe for optional flash, safely covered when not in use.

Moving to the back plate then, the Nikon D3000's 3-inch LCD dominates proceedings, above which is the previously highlighted upon eyepiece for the optical viewfinder, with dioptric adjustment slider for the myopic nestling unobtrusively into the right hand side. Again, the backplate mirrors the rest of the camera's design ethos in being visually clean and uncluttered - with less controls than might usually be found on some bridge models in fact. What's there is mostly clear, with an auto exposure/auto focus lock button to the left of the command dial we've touched upon previously.

Directly below this, dead right of centre of the LCD, is a four-way multi-selector dial, just smaller than the thumb, for tabbing through menu options and images when in review mode. At its centre is the logically located 'OK' button for effecting any changes that need to be made and below both is a dedicated delete button, denoted with familiar trashcan icon.

So far, so expected, and this continues over at the left hand side of the LCD screen with a run of four vertically arranged buttons that will be immediately familiar to users of Nikon DSLRs. From the top we have a playback button, a menu button beneath this and two further buttons again for zooming into or out from an image, as well as calling up captured shots as a series of thumbnails or requesting capture information be displayed on screen. There's also a question mark icon adjacent to the zoom button, which means that if you press it when not in image review but rather capture mode, the user gets a brief on-screen text explanation of the mode selected itself.

Memory Card Slot	Battery Compartment

The zoom out button also doubles as an information /edit button. Press this and you'll get an overview of the settings in use at the time. Let go of it and with the multi-selector dial, settings can be changed without having to delve into the menu/s proper. Neatly, as you tab through the on-screen options in this mode, thumbnail images of the type of picture you might be looking to achieve with said changes pop up in the centre of the screen. Hence, in choosing continuous capture you're logically presented with a picture of a rollercoaster.

While that's it for the cleanly laid out camera back, to the right hand side of the Nikon D3000 we find a slide and flip open spring-loaded door covering an available slot for either SD or higher capacity SDHC card, while over at the other side of the camera, as expected we encounter ports for AV and USB out, covered by a rubber flap.

The base of the Nikon D3000 features a just slightly off-centre screw thread for attaching the unit to a tripod, alongside which, built logically into the base of the camera grip, is the battery compartment, housing the EN-EL9a rechargeable lithium ion cell provided.

Pretty much everything you'd expect to find on an entry level DSLR these days is present and correct on the D3000, with the nice extras of the Intelligent Guide and Picture Control settings, not to mention in-camera editing for those who want it. What I did miss however was the ability to implement Live View via the rear LCD, which on occasion lead less to instances of point and shoot, more point and guess when it proved tricky to bring my eye completely level with the optical viewfinder.

Still, more positively the camera is as well made as you'd expect a product bearing the Nikon logo to be, solidly constructed and with a control layout that ensures everything is readily 'to hand' and responds instantly to user input. So what of the images the Nikon D3000 delivers? Do they transcend the entry-level model's mighty minnow status, or leave it wallowing in the shallows, afraid to play with the other big fish?