This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with your Canon EOS D60. 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 full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the included Acrobat reader or any current Web browser. The CD also includes trial versions of a number of the author's favorite programs.
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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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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough detail,
By John J. Short (Chevy Chase, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS D60 Photography (Book & CD-ROM) (Spiral-bound)
What is needed in a book of this type is a lot of detailed information on variations of settings and examples of what effect on the pictures changing the multiple different settings would have. This would take a lot of the trial and error out of working with a complicated new camera and shorten and simplify the learning curve by detailed suggestions of settings in various situations. Unfortunately, this book fails to do this and mostly comes across as an expanded version of the owner's manual. There is very little detailed information given on the various settings and even the pictures and examples given do not have details of what settings were used. I found the book to be mildly helpful in familiarizing me with various settings and options, but poorly helpful in giving suggestions or examples to get me off to a fast start. I am left with learning by trial and error, something a book like this should help you to avoid.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not as useful as I would have liked,
By tzadik "tzadik" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS D60 Photography (Book & CD-ROM) (Spiral-bound)
The book serves as a minor re-introduction to photography. I minored in photography in college, but have let the hobby slip since losing my equipment many years ago. I got a digital camera some years ago, and was frustrated by the lack of control over the image. I finally moved back into SLRs by purchasing a D60 (which I love.) This book was a brief re-introduction to basic settings, but shows no real comparative results between the various settings, as a previous reviewer had already mentioned. There is SOME usefull information in this book, but none of it unique to this particular camera. General information about aperture and speed control can be gotten from better general books. Don't bother buying this one.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A book full of errors,
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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS D60 Photography (Book & CD-ROM) (Spiral-bound)
This book is not describing the Canon 60D camera! Even the pictures in this book are not of the 60D!
For example: 1)Page 7 says the 60D uses either type 1 or thicker type ll compact flash cards. It does not. It uses secure digital cards! 2) Page 9 shows a picture of the card in the camera. Nothing like that on a 60D. 3) The main dial of the 60D has a movie mode. But the main dial shown in this book is not from a 60D. And the movie mode is not described. 4) I could go on as there are many other incorrect things in this book. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!
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