David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
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.EHFRaleigh, NC
