Rating: 
Summary: Best for Windows users.
Review: This is a good book for PC users. Lots of the hardware and some of the software content is not needed by Macintosh users. The photography tips are excellent for all. It is well-written with lots of attractive Windows photographs, but if you are a Mac user, you already have lots of the digital video solutions that are in the book. If you are a PC user and are really, really serious about digital video-well-it could be time for a platform change.
Rating: 
Summary: So-so, beginner-only
Review: This review is based on Chapter 3 only. I haven't seen the rest of the book.1. The information provided is mostly trivial, suitable for one who never used any photo- or video-camera before. It might be your first book to enter the field - it certainly won't be the only book you need (IMHO). 2. Complaints of first reviewer are valid. E.g. page 39, last paragraph. The author basically describes a pinhole camera: "...take a lightproof box and make a tiny hole at one end..." But then he talks about a "bulging glass in the middle of that box..." - looks like clue-lack. Page 44, last paragraph (and the one above it) - mix-up of what "stop-down" means, and introduction of "stop-up". Page 48 - the author talks about Night Shot, forgetting to mention that this feature is found on Sony camcorders only (don't try to find it on your Canon, for example). Same page tell you that "for filming in bright sun at the beach use ... Sand feature" - it wasn't very enlightening (especially if you graced yourself with one pass over your camcorder's manual). Page 49 - don't know about yours, but my camcorder doesn't have Twilight setting. To be fair - there were a few good tips in this chapter. Not enough for me to justify purchasing the book. Also, other chapters may contain more useful information - I don't know.
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