Nikon D80 Digital Field Guide by David D. Busch
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Book Summary Author: David D. Busch Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-05-29 ISBN: 0470120517 Number of pages: 272 Publisher: Wiley Accessories:
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Book Reviews of the Nikon D80 Digital Field Guide
Customer Review: Photo lessons specfic to the D80, but too heavy to be a field guide
Summary: 2 Stars
If you bought a D80 as your first camera this is a fair book. Many, though, are much better at explaining the basic concepts of photography. But if you know what depth of field is, you don't need this book; look elsewhere.
Only about 20% of this is D80 specific and that part is simply a large-print version of the factory "book".
It's also mis-named as being a "field guide". If should have spiral binding so I can lay the book down with the page open while handling the camera. That should be a feature on ANY camera instruction book.
I'm a semi-pro shooter and I got more and better info on what the buttons do from the fold-up guide also for sale within Amazon.
Okay, I've had a bit more time with the book and want to raise the rating to four stars. Why four? Depth of field is explained, yes, but a more careful and thorough reading shows that Busch has described the function as it's employed on the D80. ditto for the other million functions and I'm finding camera-specific information to be very useful.
Why not 5 stars? I gave up my huge camera bag with several lenses, extra bodies, filters etc. after lugging it around Russia for a month; it took almost a year for my hip to heal. I sold it all and went the one camera with one lens route with Photoshop on the laptop (I don't lug it around). With light weight as a tactical goal, a slick-paper book is just too darn heavy to be called a Field Guide. Read this, keep it on the shelf, and take the lighter-weight Nikon manual as a reminder.