David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Nikon D3100 (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
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I am an avid traveller and I try to keep detailed journals of my travels (day by day text entries with photos and slide shows to bore friends and family). For several years I have been content with 'point and shoot' type digital cameras. I've had mostly decent results but credit dumb luck more than skill as a photographer. I recently bought a Nikon D3100 with kit lens and a telephoto lens but, thanks to the camera's excellent automatic modes, have not progressed much beyond using it in pretty much a point and shoot mode. I bought a couple of DSLR and D3100 specific tutorial books and they are quite useful, but they seem to require a little more study than I'm willing to devote right now. After almost 50 years as a Nuclear Engineer, I'm not afraid of technical research but I want the easy path for using a camera. This little field guide fills the bill - all of the essentials in an easy to read 150 pages. Who knows? - once I master the basics (by experience and use of this field guide) I will probably go back to the 500+ page tomes that go beyond the basics, only this time I will be reading to 'fill in the blanks'.
