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 enlarge | Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 11341
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0470120517
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.33
EAN: 9780470120514
ASIN: 0470120517
Publication Date: May 29, 2007
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Good hands-on guide to the D80 May 9, 2008
This book is definitely a step-up from the included camera manual. The quick start section and the sections describing the camera controls are very complete and helpful. Also, the section describing how best to setup your camera for specific picture settings is great.
Much Better Than the Nikon manual May 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For whatever faults this book may have it is certainly an improvement over the Nikon Manual for the D80. The D80 has all the bells and whistles but you need this roadmap to make it work.
 A good intro to the D80 April 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I liked this much better than the guide that comes from Nikon. It was worth getting for me being I had never owned a digtal pro level camera.
Nikon D 80 Digital Field Guide by David D. Busch March 28, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is an excellent instructional book that goes farther then the product book and is much easier to understand.I would recommend this book to anyone with a Nikon D80 digital SLR camera.
 Photo lessons specfic to the D80, but too heavy to be a field guide March 27, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
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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.
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