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David Busch's Canon EOS 7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides) [Paperback]

David D. Busch
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July 26, 2010 1435456912 978-1435456914 1
Welcome to the Canon EOS 7D, Canon's new digital SLR that is loaded with professional features at an affordable price. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS 7D GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows readers how to make the most of their 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. They'll learn how, when, and, most importantly, why to use all the cool features and functions of their camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help them get comfortable with the basics of their camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Canon EOS 7D'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 their new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so they'll quickly learn how to their Canon EOS 7D, and use it well.

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Features

From the Publisher

  • Shows readers how to master all the features and functions of the Canon EOS 7D, Canon's advanced yet affordable new dSLR model.

  • Clear instructions and beautiful, full-color 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.

From the Author

In depth, yet accessible, for beginners and Canon veterans

Rather than rush to be first on the shelves with a cursory overview of the Canon EOS 7D, I decided to give this top camera a real workout, and take some extra time putting together this comprehensive, 500-page guide that answers all the questions that both beginners and more experienced amateurs will have about this sophisticated camera.  If you're serious about photography, you need:
  • Detailed coverage of the 7D's autofocus features.  Are you confused by all the 7D's autofocus options, including the ability to specify different zones for vertical and horizontal orientations? Learn how to choose focus modes and zone selection methods to snap into sharp focus every time.  You'll find explanations of exactly how phase detection and contrast detection work, and step-by-step instructions for using techniques like stack focus. 
  • Essential advice on settings options.  You need more than just a rehash of menu options and settings.  You want advice on when you should use (or not use) each option.  I've included two full chapters (more than 100 pages) of tips so you can set up your camera with confidence.
  • A full chapter on shooting movies and Live View.  My tips go beyond just the camera controls to show you how to get better movies and audio using storyboards, establishing shots, close-ups, two-shots, and more.  Get the most from your 7D's full HD video capabilities.
  • First-hand experience with the full array of Canon lenses for the 7D.  I own and use virtually every lens in the Canon line, and have summarized my recommendations on a full chapter that evaluates the available lenses.
  • The latest technology. I'm always looking at new stuff, like Eye-Fi cards, GPS, and smartphone/tablet apps, and provide the latest news in my books.
  • Entire chapters on exposure and histograms, and other topics. Two full chapters just on flash/wireless flash. Improve your photography skills as you learn to use your 7D.
I know you'll enjoy using your new 7D as much as I have.  Sit down with me and let me show you how to get the most from your camera.  And if you need a camera-bag-friendly guide to take with you everywhere, I have written a Compact Field Guide for this camera, too.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR; 1 edition (July 26, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1435456912
  • ISBN-13: 978-1435456914
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A camera this good deserves a guidebook this good! August 4, 2010
Format:Paperback
"David Busch's Canon EOS 7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography" has at least twice as much useful information as any of the compact guidebooks, as befits this advanced camera -- Canon's most affordable "pro/semi-pro" model. The two full chapters on lighting, which includes one chapter dedicated just to this camera's new built-in wireless flash capabilities, are worth the cost of the book alone.

Quite simply, this book, like his other guides, doesn't fit in the cookie-cutter mold of the other books on the shelves. Those typically re-hash the material you find in the booklet stuffed in the box with the camera, providing slightly longer and easier-to-understand explanations of the basic controls and menu settings, plus add some generic photography advice. That's a viable approach, but not particularly satisfying for someone who really wants to master a new camera like the Canon 7D.

Busch recognizes that each camera is unique, and although the explanations of basic concepts like exposure, shutter speeds, and apertures are similar across all models in all his books, the Canon 7D deserves detailed coverage. In this book, he manages to do that while still tailoring his explanations to suit beginners who have purchased a Canon 7D as their first D-SLR, intermediate photographers looking to improve their skills, and advanced shooters who want a fast way to learn the camera and gain some tips. You can't do that with a cookie-cutter book.

Including the introductory material, I counted more than 500 pages, all well-organized so that any photographer of any level can quickly locate what they need to know. For example, there's a "Getting Started" chapter, which, the author acknowledges, will likely be read only after the reader has already taken a few hundred photos.
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55 of 62 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing.... January 18, 2011
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The book is usefull for entry-level DSLR users. Having a 3-year experience with XTi, I learned very little compared to what I picked up from the manual. One third of the book is not 7D-related (chapters 9, 10, 12, 13), and is applicable to any DSLR (which is not bad if this is your first camera). I found very dissapointing the author copied some text from his other DSLR books which is wrong (in some cases misleading) for 7D, examples on pages 102 ("ISO 3200 is disabled by default", while actually it is ISO 12800), 142, 144 (had to use the manual for "Quick mode" in LiveView as the description of step 3 on this page is wrong), 204 (wrong RAW modes), 259 (again wrong value for disabled ISO), 342 (mentions 9 focus points while the camera prides itself on 19 points), etc....Didn't find specific information I was looking for, e.g., advise on choosing correct frame rate for movies, specific tips for using "hidden" 7D capabilities, like the one described at [...].
Bottom line: the book is less informative than the manual; web is a better source on 7D features (do not miss YouTube presentations on 7D).
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, well-written, and easy to understand September 6, 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Simply put: if you are going to get one book on the Canon 7D, this one should be it.

I ended up trying almost every 7D book out there and this is by far the best. Other books either come off as being a very generic source of info that could have been written for any camera or, on the other extreme, simply a rehash of the user manual. David Busch's book is right where you want a book like this to be. It does a great job of teaching you how to use the advanced functions you find on the 7D to better your pictures. Where other books get stuck on teaching you about aperture and shutter speed, this book assumes you know the basics and teaches you about the sophisticated new auto-focusing system present in the 7D. Finally, a book that is written specifically for the 7D, but goes beyond what you find in the user manual.

The book starts with several basic chapters to get you acquainted with the camera, including a quick start guide. It then moves into "beyond the basics" chapters to teach you about the metering modes and how to attain a good exposure from your 7D, mastering the autofocus modes, and shooting movies. The book then goes into customizing your camera so that you are ready to shoot exactly how you want to shoot, a good chapter on lenses, and how to work with light (continuous vs flash, and using the new wireless flash controller). It then ends on a couple of "Enhancing your experience" chapters that go into downloading, editing, and printing and then a chapter on troubleshooting and preventing problems that might arise with your 7D.

Overall, it's very good and well-worth the read for anyone who has a 7D.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Book for a Superb Camera August 28, 2010
Format:Paperback
Synopsis
I've owned this book for a little over two weeks now and I have to say that it's nothing short of excellent!

Overview
I replaced my trusty 20D with the EOS 7D about four months ago. I'm an electrical engineer who's been a pretty serious photographer for about 45 years and have been using fairly complex cameras for about that long; so I'm no stranger to photography or technology. I've read the Canon EOS 7D Operator's Guide through a couple of times while I've waited to see what third-party books would be published that would supplement and flesh-out Canon's pocket compendium on this camera.

If you really want to get to know the 7D and become familiar with it's many capabilities, you won't do better than David Busch's book! This guide to the 7D is complete and well organized. It will help you to quickly get an overview of this camera and then to drill-down into the features that are most important to you. This knowledge will help turn your passion for photography into much better photographs.

Pro
The book is well-written and illustrated. It's both pleasing to the eye and easy on the eyes with it's larger print (for those of us who wear bi-focals). If you're only going to buy one book to supplement the Canon Operator's Guide, this should be it.

Con
If you're looking for a field-guide to take with your camera on a photographic safari, this is not the best book for that role. Although the size format is fairly reasonable, it's still too big (especially too thick) and heavy to take into the field.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference
This book does an excellent 'how to use' on all the features of the Canon 7D. It is a reference manual - not necessary to read it from cover to cover.
Published 7 days ago by OD818
4.0 out of 5 stars Helps alleviate fear of using the 7D
As always, David Busch's photography books are awesome!
This one is no different.

When looking for help or assistance in photography, no need
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Published 1 month ago by John J Migliore
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Information and Well-Written
I found this book very helpful, filled with information for all levels of photographers. It has helpful tips on lens choices, too, and the illustrations have helpful information... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Janet Lorraine
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent purchase for 7D owners
This is probably the easiest reading, most comprehensive book on the Canon 7D that I have ever seen. Read more
Published 1 month ago by David Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars 7D Guide
This book is truly comprehensive and significantly better than the manual and the other 2 I had purchased or received.
Published 3 months ago by J. Fields
5.0 out of 5 stars Wildlife Photographer
This book is a must-have for anybody who has the Canon 7D. So easy-to-follow and read. I'm so glad I bought this book.
Published 3 months ago by Ronnie
5.0 out of 5 stars This is my second David Busch guide
Busch's style is very concise, to the point, and not too technical. He covers everything in a logical order and leaves nothing to chance. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Austin Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding 7D Guide
This book, as other camera guides by this author, is "must have" for anyone wanting to more fully understand their camera. The helpful tips & suggestions can be priceless. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Irish mike
4.0 out of 5 stars David Busch's Canon EOS7D Guide
Great book as usual from David Busch. I have now purchased the guides for the original Rebel Xti, 40D, 50D and now the 7D. Read more
Published 4 months ago by James Broadwater
5.0 out of 5 stars Needed this
My husband purchased this as a guide to the use of this camera. It is giving him a great deal of back ground information to get the best use and photos this camera can take.
Published 4 months ago by Paula
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