The better guidance

David D. Busch has already brought more than one million books to the woman or the man world. He is considered the number one textbook authors in this sector. So more than 2, 000 items for magazines such as Peterson's Photographic originate (now discontinued) from his pen. He collected practical experience, among other things as a photographer for a newspaper in Ohio and a College of New York, as many basketball shots demonstrate.

Well I evaluate the real practical tips, such as CPU lenses support auto focus with distance data or what is the scope of the built-in flash actually has in changing the ISO sensitivity. Or the 50 pages with useful advice about available lenses. For jovial tone but also includes such things as the recommendation for the camera to buy the strap of UPstrap and to refer in the order to the author.
The book comprises twelve chapters on more than 500 pages, the first five sections are devoted to the menus and controls. Over the next five it comes to practical use (page 231-432). It concludes with the two chapters on software for image processing and troubleshooting.

Size matters? I do not like a sex psychologist sound, but more than 500 pages are much book and also the softcover under the sheer weight of groans. Despite the larger size of the single-column document is more reminiscent of a paperback book. Due to the large font size, the letters are also clearly visible from a further distance. The format could have been taken directly from a program such as Word 2000 for the compression stage. Too much remember the continuous fat black bars in the table headings at the format "Simple 3" from the said text processing. Shots of menus and controls on the one hand and with the D300s made pictures on the other side talk broadly balanced. However, the illustrations 13 fill in the format 9 x half a screen page. Too much for example, a macro shot of "Multi Selector" on the rear panel. And the choice of motifs in addition to the shooting sports with jet fighters and tanks reminds me of the Gulf War.
Three sides treat the Nikon Active D-Lighting, which account for half of pictures ". By the time the sample images shown havebeen half-toned and rendered to the printed page, the differences may be fairly subtle" So to see is not much. It's as if the car navigation system, the route description only outputs in text form. Other books can do better.
If we let the horizontal overlaps with the manual left out, then the substance to 200 to 300 pages would have been displayed, the "European" pleading perhaps even to no less than 150 to 200 pages.
The book resembles in many parts but only a better guidance, even if the author immunized against such criticism in the preface, as that certain repetitions not be ruled out. Even if a horse says it's a cat, it can not long ride the trees upwards. Why is presented on five pages of content is an original packaging?

Unfortunately, the focus is as promised by the author not only on the essential things. As for the right photograph, the author refers also like the many other titles from its plant. Speaking of references, the camera accompanying manual make the reader through the many cross-references wuschig. But exactly at this point the author solves his own promise not one. Most read sentence could mean in spirit: I will explain in chapter did XY. If the many references would you vote at least yet, so that is the book about the life of the camera as a reference.
Example assignment of the AF-ON button (autofocus activation): On page 55, will announced many great things that could be do with it as explained in chapter 6 in chapter 2. But Chapter 6 deals with the subject exposure. Only in Chapter 7 is about the focus, referring back to Chapter 2 for the AF-ON button. Apart from the confusion remains among others the reference to the distance that the image stabilizer to VR lenses can not be activated by the AF-ON button, but only by the shutter.

The book costs half of German titles for D300s, but offer more content with their layout. The title has its strengths, but also unique weaknesses that result in my review of no more than three points. Granted, it will find valuable tips. But I would not buy the book because of the limited use benefits again.