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So you may know how to make a great shot, but actually understand how your camera works makes you get more out of what you are trying to achieve. Sure it is important to understand about F-Stop and all those cary over terms from the analogue world of 35 mm photography, but the internal workings of the digital camera are different from the old 35's and are worth a look.
The book is broken out into four section. While the fourth section covering ink-jet printers, monitors etc under the heading of "How Digital Print-Making Works" , is under explored and frankly, seems a peripheral subject and not really paid much more than lip service in terms of content. The other three sections… Read more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The book titles itself as a guide. I would label it more as an essential book for anyone who recently purchased a digital SLR. The book lives up to it's promise of taking you beyond point and shoot. After all, if you just doled out for that SLR, you should want to make the most of it. The book divides itself into reasonable chunks of information and is sorted logically, taking you through the camera features, lenses, flash and filters
and on to RAW files and image editing. This book does not act like a classroom book - with tutorials etc, but offers all the basics in a simple and straight forward form. A good example is in the techniques section. Four pages are spent on handling light… Read more
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This book is just the right size to slip into your camera case and take along with you. The book upfront gives great advice before delving into the main chapters. Chapters are broken out by like categories such as using flash, wedding shots, travel and portraiture. The chapters in themselves however are not drawn out affairs. Each page is topic specific running one to two pages with concise to the point advice. The information in each topic is in an easily guided verbiage to get you quickly through the task at hand.
I find that I am not able to always remember all the fine points of advice when it comes time to make that next shot. This book is going to be a handy reference… Read more
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