Focal Digital Camera Guide: Sony A300/A350

Key Features:

- Reveals the creative potential of your camera with clear, practical guidance, great tips, and advice from an experienced photographer
- Highly visual approach with camera screenshots, highlighted tip boxes, and inspiring photos throughout
- Camera-specific approach coupled with a "quick-start guide" to get you taking great pictures right from the word go


Reviews:

Shawn Barnett is Senior Editor at Imaging-Resource.com. He lives near Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three children. Shawn started taking pictures early and hasn't stopped for over 30 years. Though his wife, daughter, and two sons now take first place, photography was his first love, and helping others find and explore this love is his passion. 
Description

Just bought a Sony A300 or A350 and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop, easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera, and everything beyond.

For the basics, turn to the quick start guide, which will get you up and running in five minutes. For an understanding of your camera's many controls and features, check out the section called "The Camera." If all you need is a quick explanation, you'll find it. If you're looking for the Whole Story, you'll find that, too. Settings that affect how your pictures look are accompanied by full-color examples that show you exactly what you can expect. This section also covers the camera's menus, playback features, memory, and power sources.

The section called "Software" shows you how to get the most out of your camera's software. It covers tethered shooting, color management, RAW conversion, storing your images, managing your library, and backup strategies - to name just a few topics.

Ultimately, this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera or the software; it's the detailed, easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take truly superior photographs. Sections devoted to lenses, subject matter, and light cover these variables in depth, always presenting the most effective techniques in the context of the Sony A300/A350.

Written by a widely acclaimed photographer, Sony A300/A350 shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. 


Contents:

Introduction
Visual tour
Quick start: How to get good images out the camera in 5 min
Part I - The Camera: Making pictures; Viewing the images; Menus; Cards; Batteries and maintenance
Part II - The Software; Sony Software; RAW conversion; Fundamentals of color management; Building an image library; Backing up
Part III: - The Light: Using natural light
Part IV - The Lenses
Part V - The Subjects: Portraits & People; Travel; Pets and animals; Action; Products
Part VI - Accessories; Glossary; Index; Links