This is a complete class in digital photography with a D-SLR camera - one that enables readers to learn the essentials at their own pace, in the comfort in their own home. The attractive package includes: an authoritative DVD guide made just for this specific model. Created by photographers for photographers, it covers specific camera features and functions. The format allows viewers to navigate easily between different topics and review chapters any time. A full-colour, 64-page book gets newcomers to the digital world started right. Packed with picture-taking tips and information on digital file formats. The DVD's live action tutorial demystifies digital shooting and shows how to compose photos; choose the best picture-quality settings; and, improve results with the built-in flash and interpret histograms. Plus, see when to trust a camera's automatic settings...or change them. A laminated quick reference card is an ideal in-the-field key to camera and menu operations.
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Know what you're getting - and what you're not....,
This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS 7D Multimedia Workshop (Hardcover)
This was a disappointing purchase. It's basically a book and 2 DVDs. Of the three, only one item is specifically about the 7D. And that one item was not all that informative for the average person using a 7D.
I'm a new 7D owner and an intermediate level SLR owner. I was excited to get a guide that would help explain and unlock the advanced capabilities of the 7D. Boy was this the wrong book to purchase. If you own a 7D, chances are, you are: 1) You are not new to photography, and the baseline concepts (ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed) are second nature. 2) You probably did not purchase the 7D to use as a video camera... there are plenty of dedicated devices that do a far better job. Given these two basic premises - here is why this package is of very little value. 1) The Book: the book is a generic book about photography and covers the basics/principals that people who buy a 7D probably already know all to well. This book is the same book included in all Lantern multimedia packages - it just has a different sleeve on the exterior. Take the sleeve off and it's the generic book. It never mentions the 7D or included images of the 7D's buttons or menus. 2) The "Great Photos" DVD: Generic. It may help some with basic concepts but, there are books that are dedicated to this subject - I want to learn how to use the 7D 3) The 7D DVD: This is actually well done - production-wise. The instructor moves along at the right pace and when I started the DVD i was pretty excited... Right up to the point where he said "The custom function menus are more advanced than you will ever need to use and will not be covered on this DVD." WHAT!? The custom functions on this camera are the very things that the photographer uses (and buys the 7D for) to get the best results out of the camera. You can use these functions to tailor the camera to your specific use - they're hugely important. To just blow off covering almost half of the menu options in the camera is inexcusable. Then, the narrator spends fully 1/3 of the time covering video usage!? This was just unbelievable to me - in the footage, they have the 7D dressed up in this full video gear (a giant lens hood rig and an external microphone - along with a bunch of other video capture gear - it's absolutely bizarre and 99.9% of 7D users will never go this far to shoot video). The DVD goes into a huge amount of detail about how to take video with the 7D. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. You blow off covering the custom functions of the camera and deep dive into shooting video. WOW.... Save your money and consider another resource - this slapped together group of generic and incomplete guides is not worth your time or money. Also - to the publisher - the presenter in the 7D DVD explains the "Live View" mode incorrectly. There is a Live View mode - for taking pictures - leave the switch aimed at the camera icon and press Start/Stop to begin shooting pictures in Live View. AND there is a video mode - move the switch over to the video camera icon - yes, you can shoot pictures while taking video if you want to. The narrator incorrectly explains this feature and tell users to switch to video mode to shoot pictures in live mode... Ugh.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Overall Great Introduction To Your New Camera,
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS 7D Multimedia Workshop (Hardcover)
This multi-media guide is for both the Canon 7D and a very helpful guide to digital photography.
The book is a general guide for digital photography and has great pointers for improving your technique. The first DVD is also a guide to making great photographs no matter which digital SLR you may own. The second DVD is THE Canon 7D specific tutorial, well presented and will help flatten the learning curve for this very feature rich camera. The 7D specific DVD helps make sense of the owner's manual that came with the camera. I've given this DVD/book combo five stars because of the quality of presentation and the content, both general and camera specific. I would buy another Magic Lantern publication.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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If you think it will help you with the 7D,
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS 7D Multimedia Workshop (Hardcover)
I received this book yesterday. I had hoped it would help me with the 7D. It is 56 pages with nothing about the 7D. Even the pictures of cameras in the book are not the 7D. I have not reviewed the DVDs yet as I did not buy the book for that media. I cannot figure who they wrote this book for. The 7D is my first DSLR but even so this book is too basic. Sorry this was a waste of money
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