David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R II/a7 II Guide to Digital Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide Series)
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David Busch’s Sony Alpha a7R II/a7 II Guide to Digital Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide Series) Details
About the Author With more than two million books in print, David D. Busch is the world’s #1 best-selling camera guide author, with more than 100 guidebooks for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, and Panasonic cameras, and many popular books devoted to digital photography and imaging techniques. His best-sellers include Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies, which has sold more than 300,000 copies in five editions, and Mastering Digital SLR Photography, now in its Fourth Edition. The graduate of Kent State University is a former newspaper reporter/photographer, and operated his own commercial photo studio, shooting sports, weddings, portraits, fashion, architecture, product photography, and travel images. For 22 years he was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations/marketing firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles for Eastman Kodak Company and other imaging companies. His 2500 articles and accompanying photos have appeared inside and on the covers of hundreds of magazines, including Popular Photography, Rangefinder, and Professional Photographer For the last decade, Busch has devoted much of his time to sharing his photographic expertise, both in publications, and in seminar/workshops he hosts at the Cleveland Photographic Society School of Photography. He has been a call-in guest for 21 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). He’s also been a call-in guest for one Canadian television show, and appeared live on Breakfast Television in Toronto, the Today Show of the Great White North. With a total of more than 200 books to his credit, Busch 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 initial #1 and #2 choices were Busch’s Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. Busch’s Web portal is www.dslrguides.com Read more
Reviews
I rarely write reviews but I've found this book so compelling that I wanted to. This is the best book I have read about my a7R II. The author clearly knows his stuff. If you buy one book about your a7r II/a7 II it should be this one. The author's writing is lucid and thorough. The book is well organized proceeding from simpler concepts and functions in beginning chapters to the more specific and detailed in later ones. There are pictures and diagrams to supplement readings. The author provides recommendations and suggestions and his reasons for them. Busch also spends time explaining photographic concepts in relation to the camera -- this was what put the book over the top for me. The knowledge behind his explanations is obvious. For example the author explains crop factor and how it relates to the camera.If you're looking for a quicker read about your A7 series camera I'd also recommend "Sony a7 Series: From Snapshots to Great Shots" by Brian Smith. Smith's book doesn't go into as much detail nor does he provide as much useful background context as David Busch. Smith's book also lacks detailed explanation of functions on the a7r ii and a7ii -- a major weakness in my eyes. That said the book by Brian Smith may get you up and running faster.
