Just looking at Digital single-lens reflex cameras confuses me. They have enough buttons to control an F-16 fighter jet. The Nikon D700 is an astounding camera that is Nikon’s first ‘compact’ professional digital SLR. Published and available now on Rocky Nook and Nikonians Press, Mastering the Nikon D700 is an outstanding book that provides a wealth of knowledge to both the experienced and beginner digital SLR users.

Mastering the Nikon D700 by Darrell Young and James Johnson is one of the most user-friendly and easy to read guidebooks I’ve ever read. Throughout the many chapters on literally every feature of this camera featured beautifully colored pictures. Many books of this type have a great description of every feature of the camera, but fail to provide clear and accurate pictures that walk you through the meaningful content. Mastering The Nikon D700 clearly puts the reader first. After reading this book, I felt that if I had never touched a camera before, I would’ve been confident with the D700. It was clear, descriptive, and to the point. Each chapter explores each feature and capability of the camera in extreme detail, surpassing any guidebook I’ve seen to date.

One part of this book that I thoroughly enjoyed was the simple yet powerful conclusions at the end of each chapter. If you get lost in words throughout any of the nine chapters, you can take a step backward with these conclusions. They provide a recap of the previous readings using extremely accessible dictation. Although I found the bodies of the chapters extremely easy to understand, the conclusions were an icing on the cake.

I rarely enjoy reading guidebooks on technology. I’m the person who likes to pick up the device, bring it home, unbox it and lock myself in the room all day with it. I usually work myself through the learning curves on the various gadgets. It’s something I enjoy. In fact, Mastering the Nikon D700 is the only guidebook I have in my house right now. However, this book completely changed my outlook. Though I enjoy figuring out the problems, Mastering the Nikon D700 added much insight. There are some features on this camera I would’ve never known or even thought about that this book went into massive detail on. This book is a fantastic testimonial demonstrating why reading is so important.

Article Author: ZachSB

Broadcast Journalism major at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Guitar player for 7 years and born in Massachusetts. I'm a music blogger who's into social media. Go Red Sox.

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