Using Your Camera: A Beginner's Guide to 35mm Photography [Paperback]

George Schaub (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1990

This guide, written specifically for people who want to go beyond the camera manual, teaches all the fundamentals using striking illustrations to demonstrate each point.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books; 1St Edition edition (May 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0817463518
• ISBN-13: 978-0817463519
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,768,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, concise, & visual beginners guide, October 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Your Camera: A Beginner's Guide to 35mm Photography (Paperback)

I consider myself an advanced beginner, and own several books on photography. This, however, is the one I turn to time and again for explanations and techniques. It is concise but more than adequate for a good working knowledge of modern camera functions, composition, exposure, exposure compensation, etc. With help for special circumstances such as existing light, night exposures, pushing film, and flash photography, it is an excellent and beautifully visual guide to beginning photography. Each point has a photograph to illustrate it. Highly recommended. Hope he writes another for more experienced shooters!

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The right beginning point, December 10, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Your Camera: A Beginner's Guide to 35mm Photography (Paperback)

I would consider this book as right starting point for any beginner who wants to take good photographs. The focus of the book is on making the reader comfortable in the world of photography. Starting from meaning of many technical terms, this book goes into illustrating important techniques of taking good photographs. The hundred around example photographs (taken by George and his wife) in the book cover the different situations that a start-up photographer would face and look for some guidelines. I should congratulate the writer on not going into most difficult techniques of photography as the book is meant for beginners. One thing I expected from this book and did not get was a step-by-step guideline about how a beginner should try to expertise different skills the writer has illustrated.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Primer!!, June 4, 2005

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This review is from: Using Your Camera, A Basic Guide to 35mm Photography Revised and Enlarged Edition (Paperback)

This is THE best beginner book on photography I've yet seen! Although written in the pre-digital era, the basics have not changed. Accompanied with full-color photos, George Schaub describes in clear and concise prose the basics regarding light & F-stops, aperture & shutter speed, exposure overides, bracketing, depth-of-field, flash photography etc.

HIGHLY recommended for the beginning film or digital photographer!