Magic Lantern Guides: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D/Dynax 7D (A Lark Photography Book) [Paperback]

Peter K. Burian (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Lark Photography Book | Publication Date: May 1, 2005

Konica Minolta's new digital SLR camera-called the Maxxum 7D in North America and the Dynax 7D elsewhere-offers many unique digital SLR features. Magic Lantern helps users thoroughly understand all its advantages, and goes beyond the user's manual with complete instructions for operating such innovative elements as the exclusive Konica Minolta Anti-Shake System, exposure compensation settings, white balance controls, creative focus control, auto exposure, and honey-comb metering system.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579906958
• ISBN-13: 978-1579906955
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,135,473 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Burian is a Toronto-based freelance stock photographer specializing in outdoor, travel, nature and active lifestyle images as well as photo/text packages. He markets his images through peterkburian.com and through Corbis, Alamy and The Stock Connection.

He is a Contributing Editor with several magazines, writing illustrated test reports of photo equipment and articles on photo technique for HERE'S HOW, Australian Photography, PHOTO LIFE & PHOTO SOLUTION, and Marketnews. (In the past he contributed to Shutterbug for 13 years, and was Editor of Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photography magazine).

Peter K. Burian is also an instructor with BetterPhoto.com, teaching two on-line courses re: digital photography (equipment and techniques).

Co-author of the National Geographic Photography Field Guide, he has written many Magic Lantern Guide books: Sony and Pentax DSLRs & the Powershot G12. He is currently co-authoring David Busch's Guide to the Nikon Coolpix P7100, to be published in early 2012.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great extension to the official owner's manual!, August 9, 2005

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FotoFla (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D/Dynax 7D (A Lark Photography Book) (Paperback)

Are you excited about your new Maxxum 7D? Want to read more and more about taking pictures, lenses to use and features of your new camera? Then this is the book for you.

I called this an "extension" to the manual, as it is not a replacement. The manual tends to tell you WHAT a menu item or button is, and this book tends to tell you what it is and HOW to use it.

The book covers aperture, shutter speed, lenses, accessories, flash photography and also gives scenarios and how to use your camera in those situations. It will focus on a given situation, say, taking a potrait in cloudy conditions, then tell you specifics on how to use the Maxxum 7D's features to get the best outcome.

Overall, I would say this book is better for the beginner to intermediate photographer. Advanced photographer's will find a lot of "I already knew that" amongst the pages, but it is still a good read on the toilet.

You can get away with just the official manual, but if you are really excited about your new Maxxum 7D, you'll want this book.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has Good Info But Doesn't Have Any Color Pictures, July 28, 2005

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WCarp (Omak, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D/Dynax 7D (A Lark Photography Book) (Paperback)

I found the book to have a good amount of information covering the Minolta Maxxum 7D camera plus general info covering photography. It has pictures showing the controls and a reasonable index to find things. The DiMAGE Viewer software is mentioned and also some info about working with images I found to be helpful.

The only negative thing about the book I found so far, really, is that there are no color photos at all! Black and white pictures of flowers and of other things, for instance, I feel is strange. The book would be substantially better if it had color photos.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Real Value-added, October 19, 2005

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Andy A (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D/Dynax 7D (A Lark Photography Book) (Paperback)

Definitely goes beyond the owners manual providing useful perspective on how to get more out of the numerous controls and customizing options for this fine camera. Also a useful guide for improving your photos.