Product Description

The Sony Alpha DSLR-A350, A300, and A200 are loaded with the best features of more advanced digital SLR cameras, in easy-to-use models perfect for budding photographers. As the new owner of a Sony Alpha, you are serious about photography and want to take outstanding pictures. You also want to quickly and easily discover how, when, and why to use the most important features of your cuttingedge camera. David Busch’s Sony Alpha DSLR-A350/A300/A200 Guide to Digital SLR Photography will show you how, when, and, most importantly, why to use all the cool features and functions of your camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Sony Alpha’s exposure modes, focus controls, and electronic flash options. With information and tips that apply to all three Alpha models, this book is chock full of hands-on tips for choosing lenses, flash units, and software products to use with your new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you’ll quickly learn how to use your Sony Alpha, and use it well.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58752 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 255 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781598638011
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is a best-selling author of books on digital photography and imaging technology, and the originator of popular series like "David Busch's Pro Secrets" and "David Busch's Quick Snap Guides." He has written eight hugely successful guidebooks for Nikon digital SLR models, and the most comprehensive manuals for dSLRs from Canon, Sony, and other vendors. His many other books devoted to digital photography include "David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets" and "Mastering Digital SLR Photography." As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has 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 photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as "PhotoGraphic," "Popular Photography & Imaging," "The Rangefinder," "The Professional Photographer," and hundreds of other publications. He’s also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and "Computer Shopper."

Customer Reviews

In-depth, but highly accessible guide to Sony cameras - and photography
Once again, David Busch has broken away from the pack to provide a comprehensive, yet accessible guide to Sony's entry-level DSLR-A350, A300, and A200 cameras. It's much more thorough than any of the skimpy, "pocket-sized" guides, which are themselves usually nothing more than a rehash of the manual Sony provides (and often inexplicably printed in black and white!) Instead of just repeating the lists of settings, Busch offers advice about what each setting does, and when you should use it. I really like this approach, because it helps readers learn about photography as they master the operation of their cameras.

It's certainly more useful than one of the DVD that are simply canned "demos" for those who think of themselves as "visually oriented." Do you like to learn visually? Check out this book's abundant illustrations of each control, key menu items, and pictures showing the kind of results you get when following the author's advice.

But beyond the clearly presented introduction to the Sony cameras themselves, the author takes you to the next plateau, with chapters that explain how to optimize exposure, choose lenses, and really master techniques like autofocus, slectronic flash, action photography, and close-ups.

I'm always pleased when I receive one of this author's books for review. He really seems to understand the needs of his readers well, and talks to both beginners and more advanced photographers in a friendly, convesational way. I wish all camera guidebooks were this good.

Very useful, explains WHY your camera works
I'm an experienced photographer, so I first looked upon this book with some skepticism. I assumed it would just be a glorified owner's manual. It really turned out to be more than that. The author explains each of the camera's features, how they work, WHY they work, and some examples of when you would want to use them. The official Sony owner's manual simply tells you how to turn on or off various controls. However, they don't tell you what a particular control does or why you'd want to use it. For example, I was initially puzzled by what the "D-Ranger Optimizer" did. This book answered that--and many more--questions.

The author also does a great job summarizing and explaining how the camera determines white balance, exposure metering, autofocus, etc. Having learned photography on a film SLR, this book provided an excellent primer on how these concepts translate to my new Sony digital SLR.

The book is well-written, logically structured, and well-indexed. I highly recommend it!

Perfect
I just bought a Sony A300 (its my first SLR camera) after taking over 50 shots with automatic settings provide by the factory I ordered this book, it explain all about the camera and digital photography, its perfect for beginners as I am. It explain the steps and the technical terms being used by digital photography using text and pictures printed in high quality paper and resolution. I'll recommend this guide to friends.