Cengage Course Tech. Book: David Busch's Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Guide to Digital Photography by David D. Busch, Dan Simon

David Busch's Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Guide to Digital Photography is a complete guide to using this camera. It covers all functions, buttons and dials - and will tell you when and how to use them to get the best photos possible out of the system. The 336 page book is loaded with tips and techniques that will help you to maximize your photographic capabilities. Full-color illustrations help to demonstrate what the camera can do.  

About the Author: With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written nearly two-dozen hugely successful guidebooks for a wide variety of digital camera models, as well as many popular books devoted to DSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second 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 and articles have been published in Popular Photography & Imaging, Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper. His advice has been featured on National Public Radio's All Tech Considered.

Dan Simon is an adjunct professor in the Culture and Communications Department at the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. He teaches courses on a wide variety of topics including online journalism, fundamentals of journalism, public relations, public speaking, desktop publishing, business and technical communications, and communication theory.

He has also taught courses in camera techniques and digital photography for East Stroudsburg University and desktop publishing for Gloucester County College. Dan also has more than 30 years of experience as a writer and photographer. He is currently working on a doctorate in culture and communication at Drexel University. Dan is an accomplished writer who has written several books on digital photography and is a regular magazine contributor.