David Busch's Nikon D4 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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From the Author It's been very difficult getting advanced users of a sophisticated camera like the Nikon D4/D4s interested in a book about their camera. Most of you are veteran photographers with no interest in hand-holding or learning the basics from a camera guide. So, while the audience for my original proposed book on the D4 was relatively small, it's hoped that by combining my guide for the D4 with new, comprehensive coverage of the D4s, there will be sufficient interest among owners of either (or both) cameras to make this expanded guide viable. This has been a labor of love for me, and no other publishers have taken the risk of putting together a book like this for a camera with such a tiny installed base.So, if you've been waiting for a book about your D4 or D4s, your patience has been rewarded. I've put my D4s through its paces as the main camera I use for my work, and the revised book is back from the printer and now shipping from retailers. I've worked hard to answer the most probing questions about these great cameras. Those who have been on the waiting list for the original D4 book should receive top priority in receiving their copies as they become available. Thanks!David Read more About the Author With more than two 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 two dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Nikon cameras, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital Photography, Fourth Edition, and Digital 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, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and other CBS publications, 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 200-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital Lenses. Visit his website at dslrguides.com/blog. Read more
Reviews
This is the 4th Dave Busch camera guide I have owned -- paralleling my cameras. I got his book for my D200, D700 and D800 cameras and ordered one the second I bought a cherry used D4. The Camera arrived on a Thursday and Dave's book on Friday. The previous track record -- books that give you a good overview and can get you taking pictures about as soon as you get a battery charged, and then go into the camera in exquisite detail -- is continued here. As in the past, I used this book as a guide to set my camera up to do what I want it to do. And now it will reside on my night stand and many evenings, I will open it at random and start reading. If things are the same -- and I see no reason they will not be -- I will learn something about my D4 every time I pick this book up. Dave's books are thorough, clear and enjoyable. As opposed to the Nikon manuals, which feature English translations of inscrutable Japanese logic, Dave's books simply make sense! Adding high quality color illustrations makes the books all the more useful, because they show the effects of various settings. And speaking of setting -- Dave not only tells you his recommendations, but his reasons as well. I constantly tell people who are getting new cameras -- "Get the book." And by "the Book," I mean Dave Busch's book. It was painfully well worth waiting for!
