Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35479 in DVD
• Brand: Blue Crane
• Released on: 2008-02-11
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Dolby, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .6 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Features

• Introduction to the Nikon D300
• Blue Crane Digital DVD

About the Actor
Introduction to the Nikon D300

Now with Spanish and English subtitles

Take great pictures with your Nikon D300! All you need is this training DVD and about 100 minutes, and you will 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.

About the Director
This DVD is inteded for new to intermediate photographers that have just purchased their new D300. The DVD provides a structure for learning and using your new DSLR, and covers topics like White Balance, Metering, the importance of using the image review system, and general topics including composition.

If you have experience with a Nikon DSLR and want more information regarding custom settings, configurations, producing and retaining great color for printing and other advanced topics, look for Blue Crane Digital's advanced D300 DVD, available mid-2008.

Customer Reviews

New To The D300, Get Started With This Video
The sky is blue; we all know that, RIGHT? Ask a blind person what "blue" is and, if having been blind all their lives, would not know the concept of color and therefore would not know to ask, "what color the sky is." When I picked up the D300 in late November '07, all I had was the users manual. It covered many features, but by no means covered some of the great features that I was "blind" to. At the time, no videos were out; the camera was just too new. The most advanced camera I have used to this point is the D80 and the F5. Picking up the D300 and getting started is pretty easy if you have shot with a D70, D80, D200 or the like. However, there were many features of the D300 that I did not have a concept of or expected. The D300 camera has many features that this video will present that you did not even know to ask. The video will not teach you how to take better photos with the D300, but will introduce many of the features of your tool that you should find very useful.

Want video training on photography? Blue Crane Digital is the way to go!
There aren't that many DVD's out there on the D300 (or other Nikon models) and I've tried 4 of them.
2 were pretty worthless, one was a mere ok, but this one is really excellent.

The DVD explains how your D300's functions work and how to use a consistent "workflow" for setting up your camera before the shoot, at the location and before and during the shot in a shooting session.
It touches the most important menu settings and gives you a good explanation of them, along with a recommendation. (The menu system will be covered in full in volume 2 of this DVD)
The other DVD's covered the menu's in full, but it was no more than summing up a list of them.
Furthermore it gives you a quick but usefull course on photography topics such as exposure, metering, focus, DOF, white balance, flash and composition.
The pace of the DVD is fast, which means there is a lot of information packed into it.
But we have a rewind button ...

I also have seen the two "Through the Eyes of a Pro" DVD's by Blue Crane Digital which are of the same high quality. Good tips on photography illustrated by real world examples.

To sum it up, if you want video training for your Nikon or Canon, check out Blue Crane Digital's website and see what video's they have for your camera model and photography in general. These are the only DVD's you will need. And watch future releases! ;)


Oh, and the DVD is not Region 1 coded btw. It's region free, and will play on any DVD-Player.

So glad I purchased this.
I am a new DSLR user, so getting to know my D300 was a dual task of learning the camera and basic photography. What I liked most about this DVD is that it promotes a personal plan, or ritual, for shooting. The narrator talks quite fast, but as the other poster said you can always go back and replay the DVD, which I have done many times. As I rewatched the DVD I realized that the information is not padded, but is tightly packed clean essential information. It even recommends several assignments to do to practice what is taught. I have discovered that if I really know all the ins and outs of my camera this knowledge triggers possibilities when I am in a shooting situation. Since I am a beginner to DSLR, I had everything to learn.