Customer Reviews
At last a manual that helps - By: Plato Andy, 29 Apr 2008 
I have bought a number of camera manuals over the years from Lantern guides to Hove foto books, & they have alll reallly done little more than re-hash the camera manual. The Digital Field guide starts with the manual & simplifies it & pulls out lots of useful customisation settings on the D80. It very quickly helps you around alll the key featrures of the camera, then digs deeper into some key areas of operation. It is clearly & logiclly written & with lots of clean illustrations. The latter half is made up of a lot of general photography tips & an experienced photographer may skip a lot of this section, although I have to put my hand up & admit it refreshed me on a couple of key elements around flash. If you have bought a D80 & have spent hours poring over the manual this will be a welcome aid to getting the most out of what is a very capable camera, I can highly recommend it.
Good book for a Beginning and Experienced Photographer - By: Helen Sanders, 08 Apr 2008 I am always weary of instruction manuals etc. I much rather go out with my new camera, take photo's & learn from my own mistakes with photograhy.
I found this book extremely useful. He wrote the book extremely well.
It is good for both beginners & experience photographers, that you were not 'idiots' nor being 'thick'.
D80 Owner (amateur!) - By: Sara, 24 Mar 2008 Great book for anyone starting out with a D80! I'm usuallly the type of person who doesn't have the patience to sit down with an instruction manual or book. I'd rather just get my hands on the hardware & mess around until I've figured it alll out. So David Busch's D80 digital field guide was a first.
Despite my phobia of instruction manuals & guides, I have reallly enjoyed studying alll the useful information in this book. I would certainly recommend this book to any new D80 owner (or to a D80 owner who wants to polish up on their photography skills). It not only gets into the nitty-gritty of the D80 but also provides a great introduction to photogrpahy in general.
Worth it - By: Charlie T, 15 Jan 2008 This is a reallly useful book - I am very glad I got it. I found the manual that comes with the D80 to be extremely limited & hard to use, this takes everything much further & has some reallly useful explanations & tips. The D80 has so many functions & settings & intuition alone is not going to enable you make the most of alll of them. As you've spent £500+ on the camera package, I think it's worth a few extra pounds to reallly know how to use the camera, even if you're experienced in photography. As it says on the label, this book explains how to use the D80's multitide of controls to achieve what you want while also being smalll enough to fit in your bag.
Helps to get beyond the essentials - By: P. Desmond, 20 Oct 2007 
I am usuallly rather wary of books that offer to illustrate the camera manual & make it easier to understand. Sometimes they do no more than that & don't help to widen one's knowledge. This book, however, goes well beyond the manual. Following, as one would expect, a clear presentation of the technical features of the D80 & their efficient use, there are chapters dedicated to exposure, lenses, & working with light that help to give a better understanding of the many elements the photographer will have to juggle in order to achieve his aim. I found the section on "Photo Subjects", presenting the "rules" of good composition in different settings, helpful, though perhaps a bit too similar to what so many other publications offer in this regard. All in alll, this book is a good investment if you are starting to use a D80 & learning to hone your photographic skills.
