David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography | David D. Busch

David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography | David D. Busch | Just what I was looking for

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	David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography David D. Busch Course Technology PTR, 2008 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 62 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Extremely helpful for an amateur.

This is extremely helpful for an amateur. Tells the why while the manuel only tells the what. Illustrations are excellent.

Just what I was looking for

This book is exactly what I was looking for. I have read the negative reviews, frankly the reviewer's opinion of the author is useless to me. What I wanted to know is does the book meet my needs, should I spend my money on it or not?

What I needed for my camera is a comprehensive guide that explaines the purpose and function of every one of the D300's controls, how I should use them in specific situations, and why.

Mr Busch does all of that plus provide helpful insights as to how settings which work well in one environment will actually degrade my work in a different environment (e.g., using D lighting set to high). I was also looking for tips for improving my photographic skills and techniques using the specific features of this camera. The author taps into his knowledge gained throughout his career and does that as well. Mr. Busch writes in a very readable fashion with a degree of humor. His explanations are clear and the pictures supporting the various explanations are accurate and very helpful (especailly in color - something else the owner's guide did not do). Therefore the book does meet my needs.

While it is true that the author does make repeated comments about why he is not covering this point or that point, I found those explanations helpful rather than a hinderance. They removed the guess work about why something was not mentioned or only covered in very limited detail. These are judgment calls by the Author and were necessary unless he wanted to produce an 800 page tome. In addition, since the vast majority of pictures in the book were photos of a D300 (making it a true Nikon D300 Book), of it's switches and menus and its various screens, showing how and where to find the functions being described, the fact (or possibility) that a few of the actual photographs may have been used in another of Mr. Busch's books, or may have been taken with another camera was completely irrelevant to the value of the book as a 'camera specific' guide to producing great work with the D300.

This is a great instruction book on using the D300 to produce great photographs, and it was worth every penny I paid for it.

EHF
Raleigh, NC

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Good book

Quite informative, great price, and needed for these more complicated cameras. It gives more in-depth information in to how the camera works, the settings than the original manual from Nikon.

David Busch's Nikon D300 Book

This is a very helpful book and much easier reading than the supplied instruction book. The "independent" review of Nikon lenses, is also, while unexpected, very helpful, although it could have mentioned the "creep" in the 18 to 200 VR Zoom. I highly recommend this book.

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