Mastering Digital Slr Photography - Softcover

Busch, Akiko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592006051 ISBN 13: 9781592006052

Publisher: Premier Press, 2004

Synopsis

Some amazing things have happened to the digital photography world in the past year. Sales of digital cameras have exceeded sales of film cameras of all types for the first time ever. Serious photographers spent years on the wrong side of a tantalizing barrier that separated them from their dream DSLR cameras that were priced at USD1500 to USD5000 or more. Now, every serious amateur, photo hobbyist, and part-time professional can easily afford a fully-featured interchangeable lens digital camera. Anyone who wants the most versatile and sophisticated, yet easy-to-use capabilities of the DSLR will be flocking to digital imaging at a feverish pace. These buyers will be looking for books that tell them how to use their new digital equipment in creative ways. This revolution began when Canon introduced its Digital Rebel in late 2003, a 6 megapixel interchangeable lens single lens reflex that cost less than USD1000, with a lens. Nikon fired the next shot in January, 2004. These exciting new cameras were introduced at a time when glorified point-and-shoot digital cameras with fixed lenses and optical viewfinders could cost USD1000 or more. Such a low price point suddenly made digital photography more attractive to the millions of serious photographers who would settle for nothing less than an SLR, but who couldn't afford the USD2000 tariff on even the least expensive models. In addition, the presence of USD1000 SLRs on the market meant that everyone else's non-SLR models became much less attractive at that price.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Premier Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592006051
• ISBN 13: 9781592006052
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352