Synopsis
The Friendly Manual with Professional Insights! This comprehensive 487-page book explains every knob, button, and feature of the Sony A500 and A550 DSLR digital cameras. Generously sprinkled with insights and real-world examples (including a whole chapter on Live View), this clear manual was written in a way that is not condescending nor intimidating. Get the most from your investment from a professional photographer who has used them!
About the Author
Gary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who has travel the world with his cameras and runs the stock image website Friedman Archives dot com. He has also written several highly-acclaimed e-books on digital imaging, all aimed at demystifying the complexities of digital cameras. His photography and writing has been published in magazines, newspapers, and books worldwide, and he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the world's smallest telephone way back in 1980 (before cell phones or cordless phones were around). Before graduating to photography he was a rocket scientist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he patented the image authentication system now used in high-end digital cameras from Canon and Nikon, and published the book "Control the World with HP-IL", a technical book showing how to interface Hewlett Packard handheld calculators (like the HP-41C and HP-71B; the most powerful handheld computers on earth) to the outside world. Frustrated with the inability to commercialize his patents, he left JPL after 10 years to learn how to run a business. He founded E2 Solutions, an Information Technology Consulting firm and grew it from 1 person and 1 telephone to a $10M/yr firm and 22 employees within three years. A tour of duty with a dot-com followed. We all know what happened after that. :-) Gary's best-known works are the 1988 "Peace Child in Latvia:, a photojournalistic documentary about a historic exchange between Soviet and American high-school student back in the days of the cold war, and his 2003 China Blog about his adventures teaching English in China and trying to start Yet Another Business. Gary keeps busy now with photo assignments, image licensing, writing books, and acting as a distributor for a most unique musical instrument called a Xaphoon. In his spare time (Ha!) he is traveling the world offering beginning photography seminars to any city that wants it, and orchestrating worldwide photo expeditions geared to the unique needs of photographers.
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