Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Photography: An Instant Start-Up Manual for New dSLR Owners by David D. Busch
BOOK DETAILS:
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (April 4, 2006)
• Language: English
It's always a pleasure to review one of this David Busch’s books, because he seems to have a knack for combining the visual and textual aspects of learning photography. The book has nice layout with brief, but surprisingly complete summaries about a given topic. This book helps you familiarize yourself with a DSLR even before you acquire one so that you’ll be much better equipped to use the photographic techniques included and, even, to understand your camera's confusing manual.
The book tell you about camera settings, functions of different features using 3 or 4 popular DSLR’s out there so you really know which camera to upgrade to the next time given your typical needs. It also discusses various types of lenses, advantages and disadvantages of each, which ones to buy given the situations you will be in.
This is not a book on how to compose a photograph, but rather, on the mechanics of actually setting the camera to capture your shot. It doesn't dumb things down, but it doesn't get into anything too mechanically or scientifically technical. Just what an amateur really wants.
