David Busch's Olympus E-5 Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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David Busch's Olympus E-5 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.Dan Simon is an adjunct professor in the Culture and Communications Department at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. He teaches courses on a wide variety of topics including online journalism, fundamentals of journalism, public relations, public speaking, desktop publishing, business and technical communications, and communication theory. He has also taught courses in camera techniques and digital photography for East Stroudsburg University and desktop publishing for Gloucester County College. Dan also has more than 30 years of experience as a writer and photographer. He is currently working on a doctorate in culture and communication at Drexel University. His published works include the Digital Photography Bible Desktop Edition (John Wiley and Sons Publishing), Digital Photography All-in-One, (Wiley), and Digital Photos, Movies, & Music Gigabook for Dummies (Wiley). He is also a regular contributor to the Growing Edge Magazine (hydroponics) and Pennsylvania Magazine (regional, travel). Read more
Reviews
This is a great book and anyone who owns the E-5 should buy this book. Actually, Olympus should provide it (or a voucher to get it free) to anyone who purchases this camera. But of course they won't do that since that would cut into profits and would be an admission that their owner's manual is inferior (which it is). The book is of excellent quality, beautifully laid out, and informative beyond even the camera itself. Good tips related to general photography and editing are also included. It's a pleasure to read and the illustrations are awesome. I went through the book page by page, line by line, and learned a lot, even though I am not exactly a novice. So why did I not give it 5 stars? Well, unfortunately, the book has a number of errors and omissions - nothing too serious, but nevertheless, they are there. But that should not be a deterrent to anyone considering buying it. I did and would do so again. If I were to ever buy another camera that has a book written about it by this author, I would buy that too.
