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Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)
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159863187X 978-1598631876 April 4, 2006 1
With the increasing availability of affordable digital SLR cameras, serious photographers are literally snapping them up. These sophisticated and versatile cameras have unique advantages and features and the "Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners" serves as a guide to get any new dSLR user up and running quickly. Covering just the essentials, the book covers all of the basics specific to dSLR photography. New skills are taught on two-page spreads and feature clear and concise directions and many full-color illustrations and images. Appropriate for any brand of dSLR camera, the book will have news users up and shooting in no time.

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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (April 4, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 159863187X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1598631876
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 9.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of 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.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.

 

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58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written, well-designed, excellent primer, July 27, 2006
This review is from: Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners (Paperback)
Always eager for something to read in English, I picked up several of this author's books on a recent visit to New York. This one I actually got for a friend of mine back home, but I found myself totally absorbed in it on the plane ride. What a great idea this is!

You'd think that digital SLRs are too "advanced" a topic for a simple book like this one, but Busch obviously recognizes that many DSLRs are going to be purchased by people who have never held such a camera in their hands before. They are so affordable now that it just makes sense to get one and gain all the flexibility and expandability they offer, rather than invest in an expensive compact digital camera with far fewer features.

But what do you do when you're confronted with all those buttons and dials, and, even, a lens that comes right off the camera and can be replaced with another one? I'd say you should read this book. It starts at a very basic level, never talks down to you, and provides exactly the kind of information that new DSLR users need to begin taking pictures. I wouldn't recommend this book to experienced DSLR owners. It's really too basic for them. But that's a good thing for everybody else.
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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book first!, April 11, 2006
This review is from: Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners (Paperback)
Digital SLRs have become so affordable that many point-and-shoot photographers are rushing to upgrade from their snapshot camera to a DSLR. Hold your horses! As a long-time DSLR user, I can tell you that there is a LOT to learn about using these wonderful, complex cameras. Before you start out on the wrong foot and encounter disappointment, you should read this book first.

It's not an advanced or even intermediate DSLR guidebook. It's best for those who are just starting out and feeling their way, and need a quick introductory course in topics like the basic controls of a DSLR, using aperture priority or shutter priority, continuous or single autofocus, what different lenses do, and so forth. All those questions you're too embarrassed to ask your experienced friends are answered here.

The topics are divided into bite-sized pieces that can be explained in two pages, so all you need to do is leaf through the book to find what you want to know, and read just the essential information. I really liked that this book is not specific to a particular camera model, making it more useful to those who own SLRs from Pentax, Konica Minolta, Olympus, Samsung, and other manufacturers who aren't "honored" with books dedicated to their cameras alone. This book works with all brands.

The Quick Snap Guide won't replace your camera manual. It won't even replace more advanced photography books. It's what you need to get the understanding you require to begin using your digital SLR camera properly. I'm recommending this book to all my friends who need a jump start.
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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Using your dSLR: the Prequel!, June 22, 2006
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It's always a pleasure to review one of this author's books, because he seems to have a knack for combining the visual and textual aspects of learning photography. In this case, Busch tackles the tricky subject of learning to use a dSLR through a unique approach that combines large images with brief, but surprisingly complete summaries of what you really must know about a given topic. The information is arranged into two-page and four-page spreads, with the key photos, captions, and explanations facing each other so that everything is laid out for you in a nice chunk.

I see this book as a kind of prequel that you'd want to absorb before studying digital SLR photography in depth. Buy this book right off the bat, perhaps even before you acquire your dSLR, and pick up the basics and jargon immediately. Use it to familiarize yourself with your camera and its functions. Then, you'll be much better equipped to use the photographic techniques included and, even, to understand your camera's confusing manual.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shutter priority, continuous autofocus, single autofocus, front sync, command dial, autofocus mode, reversing ring, autofocus system, crop factor, external flash units, tronic flash, scene modes, focus zone, mode dial, macro photography, candid photography, metering mode, macro lenses, white balance, manual exposure, shutter speed, shutter release
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Quick Snap Guide, Quick Map Guide, Rule of Thirds, Civil War, Konica Minolta, Guide Numbers
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