Olympus PEN E-PL1 For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) [Paperback]

Julie Adair King (Author)

Book Description

Series: For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback) | Publication Date: August 9, 2010

A friendly guide to the Olympus E-PL1, the latest trend in digital cameras

Hybrids offer the flexibility of interchangeable lenses and a large sensor in a smaller body. The Olympus E-PL1 lightens your load without sacrificing shooting power and this fun and friendly guide helps you better understand your camera's controls, features, and potential. Veteran author Julie Adair King presents you with examples on how to use your camera's main functions in order to create effective and memorable digital photos.

• Explains how to work with lenses and shoot in auto mode
• Covers the on-board controls and situational shooting
• Addresses manipulating focus and color controls
• Discusses printing, posting online, and other ways to share images

Get started shooting with Olympus E-PL1 For Dummies!

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book is a valuable resource that will help budding photographers learn more about their PEN E-PL1.' ( PhotographyBlog.com, 16th August 2010).

From the Back Cover

Unpack big photo power from this little camera and show off your creativity!

The Olympus PEN E-PL1 offers the tools to capture great photos in automatic mode, or you can take full control of the camera's settings, switch lenses, and shoot like the pros. This friendly, full-color guide helps you get great photos whether you're shooting a kids' birthday party, capturing HD movies, or creating a photo worthy of framing.

• Go live — explore the Live Guide feature and make creative adjustments in color, focus, and brightness before you shoot

• Make friends with your lens — get acquainted with the kit lens and learn your way around the Micro Four Thirds lens system

• Stop and go action — learn to switch instantly from shooting stills to movies and back again

• Save, print, and share — protect images you want, delete those you don't, transfer photos to your PC, and prepare them for e-mail or printing

• Take control — explore manual settings and master exposure, color, and depth of field

Open the book and find:

• Insight into controlling the exposure trio: f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO

• How to use "almost automatic" modes like iAuto

• Ways to add special effects in ART mode

• Tips for shooting memorable landscapes

• Steps for capturing portraits, close-ups, and action shots

• Secrets for overriding auto-exposure

• Cool ways to control color

• How to make audio notes on still images

Learn to:

• Understand and use all the camera'scontrols

• Manipulate focus, color, and exposure for great shots in any setting

• Expand your creativity with special-purpose features

IN FULL COLOR!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (August 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470879505
• ISBN-13: 978-0470879504
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Equipment

More About the Author

Julie Adair King is the best-selling author of many books about digital imaging, including Digital Photography For Dummies, Shooting & Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, and Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers. When not writing, she teaches at various locations, including such noted photography schools as the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida.
A native of Ohio and a graduate of Purdue University, King now resides with her furboy, Mocha the Wacky Wheaten Terrier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very worthwhile - so much better than the Olympus manual, September 7, 2010

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Isabel Cutler (Western North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus PEN E-PL1 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Kindle Edition)

The menu system of the Olympus PEN E-PL1 is many layered, complex and confusing. The manual Olympus provides is not the greatest. A friend recommended this book to me and I ordered it in the Kindle version for reading on my PC. It is the first Kindle book that I've ever used on the computer. I don't have a Kindle. The content is very well written and helpful and I like the fact that I can use the search function in the Kindle PC software to find answers to specific questions. This book is excellent and I highly recommend it for people who have this camera.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Good as an eBook, January 12, 2011

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MT C (Great Falls, Montana, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Olympus PEN E-PL1 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Kindle Edition)

As an ebook this is not the way to go. I'm finding that reference materials do not make very good ebooks.

I would not advise buying this as a reference manual for the camera, unless it is purchased as a 'real' book.

Actually the contents of this is very good, it was just poor judgement on my part to purchase as an ebook

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL!!! SIMPLY WONDERFUL!!!, February 9, 2011

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Bonlee (Pa, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Olympus PEN E-PL1 For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) (Paperback)

This is a "SIMPLY" wonderful book to have for the already WONDERFUL Olympus Pen E- PL1 camera! It is very well written and very understandable to follow! I'm not a super technical person, so this book has been an enormous help to me.... I highly recommend the camera AND the book!