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Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)
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1598633368 978-1598633368 November 8, 2006 1
If you have purchased a Canon EOS 30D camera and find yourself bewildered with the manual's insufficient information on how each feature should be used and when particular settings should be applied, this is the guide you need! Not yet ready for a comprehensive book on digital SLR photography? This book serves as a guide to the purpose and function of your 30D's basic controls, how to use them, and why. It includes concise explanations of file formats, resolution, aperture/priority exposure, and special autofocus modes--summarized in well-organized chapters with plenty of illustrations showing what results will look like with various settings. You'll get a quick introduction to focus zones, Bokeh, flash synchronization options, how to choose zoom settings and exposure modes. Unlike the manual, this book cuts through the confusion and menu listings to provide exactly the information that is needed. It serves as a perfect product-specific book to using your Canon EOS 30D.

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  • Paperback: 270 pages
  • Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (November 8, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1598633368
  • ISBN-13: 978-1598633368
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #548,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has 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 photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He 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 #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 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).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.

 

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very readable, December 24, 2006
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BakariC (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)
David Busch set out to write a book wich will help 30D users understand both the features of the camera and digital photograhy in general. It's the only book on the 30D that I know of that doesn't read like a manual, especially beginning with the fourth chapter.

Busch does a really good job of trying to break down what making photo instead of what taking a photo is all about. He gets beyond the manual approach which is not an easy task when talking about a particular camera. He makes a good attempt to explains important points about exposure, lens types, and lighting. Some parts of the book could use more illustration and step by step examples, but overall it's very readable for novice and intermediate 30D digital photographers.

It's very nicely laid out with lots of white space for writing notes and underlining. The photos included in the book are not spactacular, but some are very useful illustrating the points he tries to make.

I would imagine that this book would be very useful to read along side Busch's other book on pro level digital photography secrets.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars From Raw Beginner to Advanced Amateur, January 11, 2007
This review is from: Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)
The back of this book says that it is a book suited for the beginning to intermediate user of the camera. I think they have left out a category into which I fit, that is, the person who is trying to evaluate just which digital SLR to buy. I got the decision down to Canon and Nikon. Buying a couple of $20 books and I had an awful lot more information than was available in the sales literature and the magazine articles combined.

This book takes a light and breezy approach to the 30D. It's a sort of combination of the manual that comes with the camera (in that it tells you about all the controls and settings), and a book on what the impact of all these controls really mean, and a book on digital photography in general. The book is organized to get you started taking pictures in the first 2 or 3 chapters, and the remaining chapters cover features that go beyond the basic settings to accomplish those special tasks that set the raw amateur (who might as well have a point and shoot camera) from the advanced or the pro.

All in all, the book was exactly what I wanted.
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Canon EOS 30D Guide to Digital SLR Photography, March 18, 2007
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Carl Silvernail (Orcas Island Washington) - See all my reviews
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The Guide is very basic and offers easy, straight forward orientation to the 30D and digital photography. It is a very good, readable summary of the 30D's features with good examples of the camera's myriad controls and set-up options.
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main dial, creative zone, mode dial, autofocus lens, photo downloader, metering mode, automatic reset, point selection button, automatic cancel, long exposure noise reduction, playback menu, assist beam, autofocus points, shutter release halfway, sensor dust, metered exposure, kit lens, sensor cleaning, custom white balance, jump button, appropriate shutter speed, crop factor, autofocus mode, exposure lock, flash exposure
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Compact Flash, Quick Control Dial, Setting Up Your Canon, Basic Zone, Photography Figure, Advanced Shooting, Getting the Right Exposure, Picture Styles, One Shot, Digital Rebel, User Def, Shooting Your First Canon, Photoshop Elements, Digital Photo Professional, Safety Shift, Red-Eye Reduction, Flash Off, Canon Speedlites, Adobe Camera, Autofocus Wide-Angle Telephoto Zoom Lens, Noise Ninja, Night Portrait
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