Magic Lantern Guides: Sony DSLR A700 [Paperback]

Peter K. Burian (Author)

Book Description

Series: Magic Lantern Guides | Publication Date: March 4, 2008

Anyone who buys this superb Sony semi-professional camera will want to try out every one of its awesome features. The 12.24 MP Exmor™ APS-C size CMOS imager, with on-chip noise-canceling before and after A/D conversion, provides over 12 million pixels. A Dynamic Range Optimizer with Advanced Auto mode allows you to select any of 5 dynamic range optimization (DRO) correction levels; Super SteadyShot® Image Stabilization has built-in technology that moves the image sensor in response to camera shake, reducing blurs. Magic Lantern shows photographers how they all work!

 

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (March 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600593062
• ISBN-13: 978-1600593062
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,097,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Burian is a Toronto-based freelance stock photographer specializing in outdoor, travel, nature and active lifestyle images as well as photo/text packages. He markets his images through peterkburian.com and through Corbis, Alamy and The Stock Connection.

He is a Contributing Editor with several magazines, writing illustrated test reports of photo equipment and articles on photo technique for HERE'S HOW, Australian Photography, PHOTO LIFE & PHOTO SOLUTION, and Marketnews. (In the past he contributed to Shutterbug for 13 years, and was Editor of Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photography magazine).

Peter K. Burian is also an instructor with BetterPhoto.com, teaching two on-line courses re: digital photography (equipment and techniques).

Co-author of the National Geographic Photography Field Guide, he has written many Magic Lantern Guide books: Sony and Pentax DSLRs & the Powershot G12. He is currently co-authoring David Busch's Guide to the Nikon Coolpix P7100, to be published in early 2012.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Plain and Simple Truth, June 14, 2008

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Gerald L. Hancock "G. L. Hancock" (Independence, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Sony DSLR A700 (Paperback)

If you are looking for a straight forward and simple approach to appreciating and applying the intricacies of the Sony A700, this is an extremely useful tool. It fills in the always present user manual gaps and simplifies the complexities of the menus and many features into more comprehensible bits.

For example, it clearly explains such essential functions as White Balance,ISO, Histograms, Drive Mode, light metering and focusing nuances, I was able to immediately begin applying lessons learned from this book with the camera in improving my results in low light situations.

One could wish for more comparative photos and more detailed views of on-camera features, but that is a mere quibble compared to the useful information designed to quickly elevate one in mastering the many capabilities of this full-featured SLR.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic Lantern Guide to Sony A700 DSLR, April 8, 2008

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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Sony DSLR A700 (Paperback)

I found this book to be very informative and helpful. I bought it because I had previously purchased a Magic Lantern Camera Guide by this same author and it was also very helpful. The A700 is a fantastic but somewhat complicated camera, and this guide cleared up much of the mystery.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, May 2, 2008

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Ivan Handler (Evanston, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Sony DSLR A700 (Paperback)

I just bought by Alpha 700 a few months ago. The manual is not complete. This book is. It has plenty of good tips on when to use different features such as the dynamic range feature. A camera like this is quite complex, it is nice to have a handy guide like this book to help guide you through the use of all of the camera's features.