David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1435457668 | ISBN-13: 978-1435457669 | Publication Date: June 1, 2010 | Edition: 1

The Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D is the most advanced entry-level digital SLR camera that Canon has ever introduced. David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography shows you how to make the most of your camera's robust feature set, including 18 megapixel resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, the real-time preview system Live View, and full HD movie-making capabilities, to take outstanding photos and videos. You'll learn how, when, and, most importantly, why to use all the cool features and functions of your camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D's exposure modes, focus controls, and electronic flash options. This book is chock full of hands-on tips for choosing lenses, flash units, and software products to use with your new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D, and use it well. NOW AVAILABLE, David Busch's Canon T2i/550D Camera Companion App for the iPhone and iPad. Buy it today from iTunes.

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Features

From the Publisher

• Provides clear, comprehensive coverage of this advanced entry-level camera, which features 18 megapixels and HD video. The predecessor to this model is the Canon EOS Rebel T1i/500D.


• Clear instructions and beautiful images will quickly help readers get familiar and comfortable with their cameras.


• Written by working photographer and best-selling camera guide author David Busch, who understands digital photography with Canon digital single lens reflex cameras.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1435457668
• ISBN-13: 978-1435457669
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Camera Guides

More About the Author

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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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the book you need for the T2i, June 7, 2010

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Lzo. Tomas - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

I love Busch's books because they are the only camera guides that aren't just rehashes of the vendor's manual, with some pictures added. I tend to upgrade my camera every year or so, and I always buy the author's Guidebook to help me get up to speed quickly with my new purchase. This one, like the others I bought, is both easy to understand and comprehensive. In the first three chapters, you'll learn about setting up your camera and choosing Menu options (including advice not only on what each option is, but why you might want to use it.) This section alone is 134 pages and, because it is a full-size book rather than a pocket-size book, has more information that you find in entire manuals of the rehash variety. Each button, dial, and menu is illustrated with large full color illustrations. This is really a "road map" that gets you started using your T2i very quickly.

After that, the author devotes 250 more pages to explaining how to optimize exposure, sort out the camera's autofocus features, choosing lenses, and working with flash and available light -- all applied directly to the T2i. Busch omits the "padding" you find in other Guidebooks, and I am grateful for that. It does not have sections on how to shoot a generic "sports" picture or "landscape" picture, etc. Everything relates to the T2i. The whole book deals strictly with photography and techniques, too, so you won't find it padded with chapters on how to use the EOS Utility or Digital Photo Pro. All in all, Busch manages to fill this book with an amazing amount of useful information.

There are other books for the T2i out there, but if you want the whole story in words you can understand, this is the one you should buy.

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why aren't all camera guides this good?, June 8, 2010

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This review is from: David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

Busch is the world's best-selling camera guide author for a reason. His books are a cut above the other books, which all repeat what you see in the book packaged with the camera, without going into any depth on how to use them. This one is different, with Busch's trademark friendly introduction to the Canon EOS Rebel T2i, accessible to anyone -- novice to veteran -- who wants to learn how to use the camera quickly. In that respect, it's great for beginners. But the author is especially skilled at taking you beyond the basics to explain exactly how to apply the features of the T2i to improve your photographic skills.

Individual chapters of the book explore the finer points of exposure, including the use of histograms, understanding the T2i's autofocus options, HD movie-making, and creative ways to use lenses and light. There are nine chapters in all, each of them dealing with a different aspect of using the EOS T2i. Even the general material on topics like f/stops and exposure all relate directly to his camera.

This book is especially good for those who feel they are "visually oriented." These folks tend to gravitate to DVD instruction, not realizing that such productions are basically audio programs with images, and aren't really visually oriented at all. With a DVD, you're basically using your ears to listen to a talking head explain the camera, and what you hear may not sink in immediately. Busch's guide takes the right visual approach, using large full-color illustrations accompanied by the text you need to quickly understand what the author is explaining. We've reviewed several of Busch's guides, and, after reading this one, still wonder why all camera guides aren't this good.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Scott Kelby of Camera Guides is Back!, June 7, 2010

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FredM (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (Paperback)

Busch has raised the bar again, producing a thorough guide to the Canon EOS Rebel T2i that combines an in-depth look at every feature, technical insights, and the friendly, accessible style of Scott Kelby. As with the other books that have made him the gold standard among camera guides, Busch explains the camera from every level, satisfying the curiousity of both newcomers and old hands.

The author divides his coverage of the T2i into two parts. The first section covers what you find in the other manuals, but with more detail and guidance. The first chapter is a quick start of all the basic features of the T2i. The second chapter is a 20-page examination of each and every control, button, and dial of the T2i, showing how and when to use them. The next chapter pores over every menu entry and option, explaining in detail what happens when you select each one, and detailing why you'd want to use these settings. This first section of the book is an introduction that every T2i owner -- newbie or pro -- needs to read.

But that's just the beginning. Busch continues where the other guides leave off, with individual chapters on understanding exposure, mastering the T2i's autofocus options, and working with Live View, full HD movie-making, and other advanced techniques. He devotes many pages to an exhaustive examination of Canon's extensive line of lenses, based on his personal experience with all of them. Other chapters talk about techniques for using light and electronic flash with the T2i, choosing software, and troubleshooting your camera. This book is more than a replacement for Canon's manual: it's a photo course on using the T2i to take better pictures.