Mastering the Nikon D300: The Rocky Nook Manual Paperback – 14 Nov. 2008

Excellent book, I recently upgraded my camera from the Nikon D300 to the Nikon D800. I had Darrell Young's book for the D300 and was so impressed with it that I bought his book for the D800. If you aer like me and love photography but find the technical stuff in the manual a little overwhelmingly diffucult to get your head around, then this book is for you. He makes it simple and clear and he also tells you how to set the various camera settings for the type of photography you like to do. I would really struggle and would probably not use my camera to it fullest capacity without his advice. I am now geeting to grips with the new addition of the movie camera on the D800 and I know this book will set me on the right path!

"Mastering the Nikon D300" is by far and away the best book I have read on the D300 to date; it's a really enjoyable read and very informative.I also own the "Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide" (Wiley) book - this is ok, but there is such a massive mistake just a few pages in (the photo showing the metering mode selector is wrongly labelled on page 7 which wasted so much of my time - center weighted and 3D Colour Matrix are shown back to front!) that this just put me off from the start. I've also flicked through another D300 guide for a few minutes and found several typos, so I didn't buy that one.Darrell Young's book is the first one that has given me the confidence to customise the D300 and I now feel I really know my way around - I've set up custom menus for different shooting situations and this has proved really useful already.I'm really looking forward to other books from Nikonians Press and this one comes highly recommended.

Excellent service, book a little complcated

Mastering the Nikon D300A superb book, tells you how to use the camera in a photographers language. no jargon or smugness. logical layout. Captures lots of techniques that are very useful and can NOT be found in the Nikon user Manual, the book has lots of references to the user manaul which adds to the clarity.

I recently bought a Nikon D300, which is my first 'serious' dslr camera. It is also my first Nikon, which meant learning a whole new set of ground rules. Then I saw this book advertised on Amazon and after reading the reviews decided to give it a try. I'm very glad that I did.This book is very well written, logical, concise and a perfect companion to the provided owners manual which it constantly cross-references to. And that is a point to remember. You should always have the owners manual to hand whilst reading this book as although it tends to be a bit clinical it does tend to contain more in-depth information. A combination of the two should be enough to gain an understanding of even the most complex of subjects.I can thoroughly recommend this book to any D300 user.

Everyone purchasing a D300 should have a good look at this book. The personal experience of the author and his recommendations as to how to get the most out of your D300 are neatly brought together with references to the D300's user manual to give you the best of both worlds - all of the detail and plenty of explanation. The book is just the right size to make it readable and is then well sectioned / indexed to help you go back to it again and again as you develop your own experience of the camera.

Quite the best book on the D300 (indeed all of other Nikon camera books) that has come my way. Clearly written, largely jargon free, and no showboating by the author. Pat Hunt, Ireland

this book is an absolute must if you buy a D300, I had a Nikon D70 before, and upgraded to this camera, it is quite a complex camera and you need more than an instruction book. well worth buying and easy to use.