A Short Course in Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Photography book/ebook [Spiral-bound]

Dennis P Curtin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2006

This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 10.1 megapixel Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi digital SLR (called the 400D in many countries). (The book also has links to 50 or so animations BUT you need broadband Internet access to play them. They will not play over a dial-up connection.) If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting on this professional-quality camera 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; shoot continuously, 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; using histograms and the RAW format for the highest possible quality; 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

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About the Author

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. They have been used by most of the armed services, many police departments, and even some camera companies to train specialists in photography. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Time-Warner'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.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 144 pages
• Publisher: ShortCourses.com; 1 edition (September 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928873731
• ISBN-13: 978-1928873730
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,925,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to Canon EOS camera, March 8, 2007

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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Photography book/ebook (Spiral-bound)

This is a well organized if a bit terse book. It comes with a CD that has a lot of useful illustrations and animations. The CD requires internet access and each example has its own copyright and acknowledgment splash scene that slows the access a bit.