This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with your Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT digital camera--called the EOS 350D in some countries. If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting in a clear, well-illustrated style, but it also does much more. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You’ll find that this guide helps you quickly master your camera so you’ll be getting the kinds of photos you hope for. The book is printed in black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. Just some of the things you'll learn are how to take pictures in fully automatic point and shoot mode and how your camera captures digital images; how to play back and manage your images; use buttons, dials, and menus; control image size and quality; use all of the camera’s exposure modes and exposure controls to get photos that show the scene exactly as it is, or as you want to interpret it; how to control sharpness in your photographs; and how to use focus, depth-of-field, sharpness, softness, and blur creatively. Learn all about light and color and how to use them creatively. Understand how they change throughout the day and seasons, how they’re affected by the weather, and how light’s direction and quality affects highlights and shadows. See how to set white balance to capture colors the way you see them. Learn how to use lenses creatively when photographing scenery, interiors, people, and very small subjects. See how zoom, wide-angle, normal, telephoto, tilt-shift, and ! macro lenses affect your images. See how to creatively use your built-in and external flash both indoors and out and in good light and bad and how to use studio lighting for product shots and portraits. Explore special techniques such as fill and slow sync flash. See how to shoot continuously, bracket exposures, white balance and flash, control image qualities such as tone, sharpness and hue, select color modes, and use the setup, custom settings, and playback menus. Finally, learn when and why to use the RAW format for the highest possible image quality.
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For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and digital photography have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Little Brown's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing.
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62 of 65 people found the following review helpful:
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A Short Course in Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D Photography (Book & eBook),
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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D Photography (Book & eBook) (Spiral-bound)
Don't buy this book! After I received it, I returned it the next day. It is almost the same as the manual that comes with your camera.
66 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
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Most pathetic excuse for a photography book,
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Just received and opened this item. I am appalled! This is a book on photography complete with photographs and illustrations and descriptions of the photographs and illustrations. It includes a discussion on how to achieve the results that are depicted in the photographs and illustrations . The problem is the photographs and illustrations are all black and white so you have no idea what the result is. I think it is just a photocopy of a real book. That is exactly hwat it looks like is a photocopy. Not professionally typeset at all. I am very dissatisfied with this purchase.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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A well-written alternative to the manual.,
By JenNYC (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D Photography (Book & eBook) (Spiral-bound)
This book was recommended to me by many online photography forums, and I'd have to say that for a BEGINNER I found this book very helpful.
Essentially, it is an expanded reader-friendly version of the user's manual. I've read the user's manual a few times through, and my eyes pretty much glazed over. I only actually applied the various setting by reading through the functions in this book. You most certainly will be disappointed if: (a) you're already familiar with dSLR settings (b) you've already mastered every technique in the manual (c) you can't get past the black and white photos (they are color in the pdf) But if you're looking for practical, more user-friendly way of accessing the power of the Rebel XT, this is your book. A lot of techniques and terms are explained in detail that are only mentioned in the manual. This might be redundant for some, but for those totally new to photography, where the Rebel XT is their first SLR, I found the expanded explanations very helpful. I'll admit the black and white photos are a bother, but for what I've practically applied from reading this manual, it's a small price to pay.
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