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• Studio: Blue Crane Digital
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0015TAOWO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #392,872 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Tutorial DVD, approx. 2 hours. Play on any DVD player worldwide (recommended) or CD-ROM drive. Take great pictures with your Nikon D300! All you need is this training DVD and about 2 hours, and you'll have the knowledge and the confidence to create the images you want. The topics are arranged in chapters, so you can move at your own pace, and return later to individual subjects. Topics include: *** Be prepared (to get the shot) *** Shutter priority *** Aperture priority/Depth of field *** Focus alternatives *** AF-On *** Metering and bracketing *** Lens choices and results *** White balance/Color temperature *** ISO *** Playback and image review *** Live View *** Understanding histograms *** Exposure compensation *** Flash overview *** Custom settings *** Shooting menu banks *** My Menu *** Programmable buttons *** RAW (NEF) files *** Composition *** And much more! The Nikon D300 is a powerful piece of equipment. A solid understanding of its features and controls can really unleash its potential. Once you learn how the camera's components work together, you'll have all the tools you need to capture the best images under all conditions.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very useful but often too fast., September 7, 2008

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Ned Middleton (British professional underwater photo-journalist & author) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to the Nikon D300 (DVD)

This is the third in a series of training tutorials I have purchased from the USA - all of which, incidentally, work perfectly well in my DVD player here in the UK.

The title of the product is an "Introduction to the Nikon D300" camera. Anyone who is already conversant with the complexities and techniques of other digital cameras and has upgraded to the D300 will probably learn very little from this product. For those of us who are beginning a whole new chapter in photography by converting to digital for the first time, there is much to learn and understand and this tutorial is quite reasonable in achieving the goals required.

If, however, you are new to photography altogether and the D300 is your very first camera, there may be certain areas such as the correlation between film speeds, shutter speeds and aperture settings which need to be understood before you sit down and watch this DVD.

The presentation is rather wooden but not as monotone as some I have seen. If, however, I were to make one truly constructive criticism, it would be that the speed of delivery is often too fast.

The only way to learn through these tutorials is to sit down with a Nikon D300 and follow what is being said. I found too many instances when the presenter made one point and by the time I had looked at my camera and back again at the screen he had already moved on and I had missed something. This was especially evident towards the end of the DVD and gave me the impression he was in a hurry to be elsewhere.

All that said, this particular DVD runs for approx. 2 hours and compares very well to others. Criticisms about it being for beginners are misplaced - because it is INTENDED to be an introduction to the camera and is not for advanced users.

The presentation ends with recommendations of two further Blue Crane products called "Through the eyes of a Pro" which, we are informed, contain more advanced instruction. I already possess these products and will be studying them very shortly. So watch this space.

NM

Addendum. I have now studied "Through the eyes of a Pro (Volume 1)" and found it to be very different from what I was given to expect. That product contains no specific instructions relating to the Nikon D300 camera whatsoever. See my review of that particular product for more information.

Another star lost for this product for having misled me.