David Busch's Canon EOS 50D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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David Busch's Canon EOS 50D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides) Details
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 definitively a way that makes your Canon camera more accessible, especially if you're a first-time dSLR owner.The book even starts from the ground-up, leaving nothing to assumption in terms of even telling you how to charge your battery, how to insert it, and how to place your Compact Flash card (and which options are available to you) in your camera. And it's not just text either! He includes photos to explain what he means at times where it's appropriate and even occasionally shows you examples of failed pictures (i.e., lighting of a shot versus the histograms that your camera can display).From bare minimum knowledge to experienced photographer, David tackles the issues from fully automatic picture-taking to fully manual adjustments and even goes so far as to cover ground on every mode that the silver-topped dial on top of your camera has to offer and every menu screen that allows the minute adjustments of noise reduction, etc. to occur.He'll offer you some advice regarding lens selection as well should you purchase the camera as a body kit alone or if you want to purchase additional lenses. There's even full discourse regarding flash photography should you chose to augment the camera with a coveted 580 EX Speedlite flash.If you find your camera manual to be detailed but not overly-helpful in the "well what happens if I DO use this?" department, this book is for you.If I had to dock it half a star, however, it would lie within David's occasional tongue-in-cheek ramblings about various scenarios like "why you would need extra batteries." Yes, we get it, but we don't need nearly an entire paragraph about maybe you're hiking and you're too far from an AC power source, ad nauseum. It tends to be a little annoying although that I can see that he's trying to write to an audience that is very broad in nature and may feel that the diatribes will make the inexperienced a little more comfortable with his "fireside chat" style approach. Apart from those minor detractions, this book is an excellent starting point specifically written for YOUR CAMERA. Enjoy!
