About the Authors

With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the #1 bestselling camera guide author, and the originator of popular series like David Busch’s Pro Secrets and David Busch’s Quick Snap Guides. He has written 30 hugely successful guidebooks for Sony and other digital SLR models, including the all-time #1 bestsellers for several different cameras, additional user guides for other camera models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Third Edition and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 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 have been published in magazines as diverse as Scientific American and Petersen’s PhotoGraphic, and his articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He’s also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper.

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 100-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch’s Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses.

Busch is a member of the Cleveland Photographic Society (www.clevelandphoto.org), which has operated continuously since 1887.

Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com/blog.

Alexander S. White is an attorney, writer, and amateur photographer. He is the coauthor of David Busch’s Canon PowerShot G10/G11 Guide to Digital Photography, David Busch’s Sony Alpha DSLR-A850 Guide to Digital Photography, David Busch’s Canon PowerShot G12 Guide to Digital Photography, and author of Photographer’s Guide to the Leica D-Lux 4: Getting the Most from Leica’s Compact Digital Camera and Dauntless Marine: Joseph Sailer Jr., Dive-Bombing Ace of Guadalcanal. He began his life-long interest in photography as a teenager, when he was fortunate enough to have his own darkroom in his parents’ house in Philadelphia. He also discovered the magic of Super-8 cinematography, and coerced his friends into making numerous amateur productions. He later ventured into the production of sound films and went on to major in Communication at Stanford University, concentrating in Broadcasting and Film, before serving in the U.S. Army and later attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His other interests include genealogy; he maintains a family history website and continues to do research into his family’s ancestry. He lives near Richmond, Virginia, with his wife, Clenise.