David Busch’s Sony Alpha a6300/ILCE-6300 Guide to Digital Photography (The David Busch Camera Guide Series)
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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 wrote after just scanning and though it okay. But after more fully reviewing it, I'm under-impressed. David Busch has written several camera specific books, most of them have received good reviews. But this book is not in that league. It is written for people who want to turn their a6300 into a sophisticated point and shoot camera. Extensive coverage of all the "scene" settings, and features that only work on jpeg images, ready for uploading to Facebook, not for serious photographers (There are a few bows to shooting RAW and to using more sophistication, but not many. The sections on face recognition, eye focus, and follow focus are far too short to be useful. This is one example.I am very disappointed in the factual errors. I would send the thing back if there were any alternative. But Sony's own manual is so bad, this is the only option.Gary Friedman's book on the a6000 is better written. Darrell Young's books on all the Nikons are great, but he doesn't have the Sonys in his sights. So this is what we have. If there were an alternative, I would go down to one star, but three stars is generous.