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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 631544" data-attributes="member: 13090">Well I guess it depends on what you mean by &quot;better&quot;...I think the David Busch guides are great for what they are, and I'm a firm believer that step one should always be knowing your camera forwards and backwards, inside and out; what each button and setting does and being able to adjust settings for critical aspects that affect exposure as well as things like the various auto-focus modes, the auto-focus area-modes and how to read and interpret histograms. That, to me, is what those sorts of books are good for. So, as far as technical support books go, the guides by David Busch are some of the best, IMO.Once you're There, though, once you really DO have all that stuff firmly ingrained in your consciousness and in order to get the most out of any camera you have to move beyond what the camera can do for you and start looking at what you can do with your camera. I guess it's sort of moving from theory into practice and that's a whole different thing. Absolute &quot;technical accuracy&quot; is great starting point, many people never really move past it and that's fine. But if you're looking for something less technical and more creative/artistic, if that's what you're looking for, then I can make some other suggestions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 631544, member: 13090"] Well I guess it depends on what you mean by "better"... I think the David Busch guides are great for what they are, and I'm a firm believer that step one should always be knowing your camera forwards and backwards, inside and out; what each button and setting does and being able to adjust settings for critical aspects that affect exposure as well as things like the various auto-focus modes, the auto-focus area-modes and how to read and interpret histograms. That, to me, is what those sorts of books are good for. So, as far as technical support books go, the guides by David Busch are some of the best, IMO. Once you're There, though, once you really DO have all that stuff firmly ingrained in your consciousness and in order to get the most out of any camera you have to move beyond what the camera can do for you and start looking at what you can do with your camera. I guess it's sort of moving from theory into practice and that's a whole different thing. Absolute "technical accuracy" is great starting point, many people never really move past it and that's fine. But if you're looking for something less technical and more creative/artistic, if that's what you're looking for, then I can make some other suggestions. [/QUOTE]

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