David Busch's Nikon D300 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

This book does much better to help in understanding and operating the D300 than the users manual that comes with the camera. It's well written and well illustrated. While the Nikon users manual tells you what the many switches and menu items do, Busch's book explains the reasoning behind making each selection.

This book is just plain bad.
Spends half the book telling you that he will discuss the topic in another chapter.. really bad.
Its a choppy ramble and not a well crafted book.
Try Mastering the Nikon D300 by Darrel Young.. I just bought it and was relived to find it to be the book I was truly looking for.

THE BOOK IS SIMPLY FANTASTIC. VERY EASY TO READ EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW VERY WELL THE ENGLISH. YOU CAN FIND ALL THE MENU ITEMS VERY WELL EXPLAINED AND EVEN A LITTLE EXPLANATION OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNICS.

This DBusch's digital D300 guide book demystifies and explains in plain language the information that was left out of the user's manual in a very usable manner. The guide also let's you know what it does not include and why and prompts the reader to other information if such is desired by the reader and user of the Nikon D300 Digital camera. Will provide certain assistance to the users of other Nikon digital cameras as well, where they have in-common features. I would rate the book as excellent and a help to anyone beginning with a professional level camera who has less than professional level skills or even for pros who might need a touch-up refresher in certain technical uses of the shooting menus, for example.

I was disappointed with the fact that this book is only a bit more than a user's manual. For those who are advanced in photography might be boring and obvious. Parts that I found more interesting were very brief.