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A Short Course in Canon EOS D60 Photography (Book & CD-ROM)

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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.

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.

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!!!!!