David Busch's Sony Alpha SLT-A57 Guide to Digital Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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About the Author With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
This book is absolutely designed for every A57 owner except a professional photographer who has already been using a Sony SLR or SLT. I challenge any A57 owner below that level not to find some very useful information in this guide. Every camera I have used up to this point has been a point and shoot, disposable, or phone camera. I wanted to step up to a new level and decided to purchase my Sony A57. Without the Busch guide I would have been treating this A57 like a point and shoot. The factory guide gives you nothing and there ain't much on YouTube in the way of A57 instruction either. I opened the box to my A57, looked at the useless included guide and just started shooting pictures on full auto. A total waste of all the features of the camera and I became frustrated in the knowledge I was missing out on things. That's when I stumbled across David Busch's A57 guide.The beauty of this book is that it explains things in a way that is useful for novices (myself) and pros alike. I wanted to know how my camera works (settings, features, functionality), but I also needed understanding of aperture, ISO, shutter speed selection, white balance, etc. and this book provides it. Not just the "what" (thats easy to find out by just using Google), but the "why" (a more elusive concept). And this is provided in a way that simultaneously explains how to perfect those settings with YOUR A57 camera. Not generically for any camera. But if you already are proficient in those topics, you can just skip to the areas of the guide that directly address the buttons and functionality of the camera. I also love how the Busch guide integrates instruction on lighting and photo editing. Things that I really wanted to learn about as well. The diagrams and photographic examples generously placed throughout the book were truly indispensable.This book has really unlocked the features and potential of the a57 for me. It is helping me get my money's worth out of the camera. Thank you David Busch for making this guide! Required reading!
