This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with your Canon EOS 10D digital camera. 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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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Read the manual, save $35!,
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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS 10D Photography Book/CD-Rom (Spiral-bound)
The outfit that publishes these useless manuals apparently operate under the philosophy that people will buy anything as long as the topic is of interest to them. This handbook is composed of essentially three different types of information. First and foremost, it simply repeats, in many/most cases word-for-word, information that is contained in the original user's manual. Second, there is a generic thread that applies to most common topics of photography woven throughout the text, such as using tripods to get sharper pictures, filters to alter the image, and so forth. This information really has nothing to do with the particular camera in question, and seems to be more of a filler than anything else. The other kind of information actually makes some weak attempts to address the unique specifications of the camera, with some orignal thoughts. In this area there are unfortunately very few insights that go beyond standard press release boiler plate. While they do cover basic issues such as lens conversions for the digital format (the 10D, D30 and D60 all use a multiplication factor of 1.6x to convert the standard focal lengths to the new digital focal length coverage, for example), they do so for some lenses, but ignore this very important factor for Canon's impressive line of macro lenses! Notable both for what it copies out of the manual, and for what it overlooks, this text is a complete waste of money--I would rate it "zero" stars if Amazon allowed us that option. My advice? Read the manual carefully, you will be much better off! This review covers all three digital Canons mentioned above--the same format, and much of the actual text, is identical for all three (and, I bet, for a great many other of the cameras that they produce these handbooks for)--run, do not walk, away from this "book"!
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS 10D Photography Book/CD-Rom (Spiral-bound)
I bought this book with high expectances, but I don't see any fundamental difference between this and the Instruction Manual included (free) with the camera. Before the EOS 10D, which I deeply love, I had a Nikon Coolpix 990, and bought Peter iNova's "Mastering Nikon Compact Digital Cameras" e-book, for about the same money. This one is a really useful and outstanding book. It includes, besides the much better and detailed explanation of all of the camera's functions and tips, a mini course in Photoshop, a comprehensive course in digital photography, printing, special effects, filter operation etc., and a bundle of useful software (not only a couple of trial software) including a lot of iNova's own designed special filters for Photoshop, nothing of which goes in Mr. Curtin's book. With iNova's book, I received much more for the money that I paid. About Mr. Curtin's book, well, I'm very, very disappointed. I feel I loose my money.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Useful book, but only for very beginners.,
By "pamelalynn" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Short Course in Canon EOS 10D Photography Book/CD-Rom (Spiral-bound)
The usefulness of this book to you will depend greatly on your level of photographic expertise. I am a complete amateur whose previous camera was the Nikon Coolpix 995 which I only used in auto mode. I didn't even know what an aperture was or why shutter speed mattered. After reading the prior reviews of this book it became evident to me that this is a VERY basic manual for beginners - like me. While a lot of the material in this book is also in the manual that comes with the camera, there is a lot more explanation that helped me to understand when and why I would want to make setting changes on the camera. It also uses actual photos (black & white) of the camera when showing where various buttons are rather than line drawings. The photographic samples (black & white) in this book are about 3" x 5" or larger, where the photos (also black & white) in the manual that comes with the camera are about 1 ¾" x 1 ¼" or smaller. I'm not knocking the manual that comes with the 10D. It seems logically organized and it certainly shows how to change all the settings on the camera. But for people like me, true beginners, this Short Course book helps bridge the gap so that I can now understand and use the information in the camera manual. In determining whether or not this book is right for you I'd ask yourself this question "Do I understand not only how to change the various settings on the camera, but also understand how they will affect the photograph I'm taking?" If your answer is "yes" then this book is WAY too basic for you and you won't learn anything new from it. If your answer, like mine was, is "no" then this manual will help bring you up to speed so that the camera manual becomes a good reference for you instead of an overwhelming conglomeration of camera settings. Perhaps a better title for this book would have been "A Beginner's Guide to Basic Photography with the Canon EOS 10D." While I do think this book serves a purpose for beginners, the price is too high - $15 to $19 would be more appropriate.
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