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Welcome to the Canon EOS 7D, Canon's new digital SLR that is loaded with professional features at an affordable price. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON EOS 7D GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY shows readers how to make the most of their camera's robust feature set, including 18 megapixel resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, the real-time preview system Live View, and full HD movie-making capabilities, to take outstanding photos and videos. They'll learn how, when, and, most importantly, why to use all the cool features and functions of their camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help them get comfortable with the basics of their camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Canon EOS 7D's exposure modes, focus controls, and electronic flash options. This book is chock full of hands-on tips for choosing lenses, flash units, and software products to use with their new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so they'll quickly learn how to their Canon EOS 7D, and use it well.

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Shows readers how to master all the features and functions of the Canon EOS 7D, Canon's advanced yet affordable new dSLR model.

Clear instructions and beautiful, full-color images will quickly help readers get familiar and comfortable with their cameras.

Written by working photographer and best-selling camera guide author David Busch, who understands digital photography with Canon digital single lens reflex cameras.

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In depth, yet accessible, for beginners and Canon veterans

Rather than rush to be first on the shelves with a cursory overview of the Canon EOS 7D, I decided to give this top camera a real workout, and take some extra time putting together this comprehensive, 500-page guide that answers all the questions that both beginners and more experienced amateurs will have about this sophisticated camera. If you're serious about photography, you need:

Detailed coverage of the 7D's autofocus features. Are you confused by all the 7D's autofocus options, including the ability to specify different zones for vertical and horizontal orientations? Learn how to choose focus modes and zone selection methods to snap into sharp focus every time. You'll find explanations of exactly how phase detection and contrast detection work, and step-by-step instructions for using techniques like stack focus.
Essential advice on settings options. You need more than just a rehash of menu options and settings. You want advice on when you should use (or not use) each option. I've included two full chapters (more than 100 pages) of tips so you can set up your camera with confidence.
A full chapter on shooting movies and Live View. My tips go beyond just the camera controls to show you how to get better movies and audio using storyboards, establishing shots, close-ups, two-shots, and more. Get the most from your 7D's full HD video capabilities.
First-hand experience with the full array of Canon lenses for the 7D. I own and use virtually every lens in the Canon line, and have summarized my recommendations on a full chapter that evaluates the available lenses.
The latest technology. I'm always looking at new stuff, like Eye-Fi cards, GPS, and smartphone/tablet apps, and provide the latest news in my books.
Entire chapters on exposure and histograms, and other topics. Two full chapters just on flash/wireless flash. Improve your photography skills as you learn to use your 7D.

I know you'll enjoy using your new 7D as much as I have. Sit down with me and let me show you how to get the most from your camera. And if you need a camera-bag-friendly guide to take with you everywhere, I have written a Compact Field Guide for this camera, too.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cengage Learning PTR; 1st edition (July 26, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1435456912
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1435456914
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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With nearly 3 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.

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Quixotic Guy

Just what I expected !

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2011

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A few years ago, when I bought my first DSLR the Canon XSi/450D, I ordered a couple of books on it and found David Busch's book very informative, helpful and most of all, readable. I hardly ever needed to look at the Canon manual. For my old eyes, the Canon manual is not the first choice.

And now I got the Canon EOS 7D a couple of weeks ago, I immediately ordered both of David Busch's books. His 7D Field Guide is a concise reference, very handy and pretty comprehensive. I did take a quick look at it and kept it aside for occasional reference whenever I need it.

His Canon 7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography has 473 pages. Happily its a very readable guide and trust me, unless you are an old hand at DSLR's, you need this book. I have read about 200 pages already, and do find quite a bit of stuff which I know well enough, but more information specific to the 7D, which is absolutely a must-know. I have used the XSi for about 3 years and being familiar with Canon's system, I was able to set-up and start using the 7D right away without cracking open the manual. But I could see that the 7D is a whole new, complex, sleek, different animal. For example, its Auto-Focus system is perhaps generations ahead of the now pokey (comparatively) auto-focus ability of the XSi. A bit of hand-handing is nice so I can take full advantage of a variety of new features in this camera.

There is a lot of material in this book which applies to DSLR's in general, not necessarily specific to the 7D. I love reading books, and the extra material i.e. a discussion of what is Phase Detection mode, Contrast Detection mode, etc.. well, I find it interesting and informative. One doesn't need to understand all this to use either of these modes in the 7D, though. But there is other general information about using DSLRs in the book, which new-bies will surely find useful.

I got the books the day after I received my 7D. Using my old 2GB CF cards with the 7D, I realized I would need faster and larger memory cards (the 7D takes 18 megapixel JPegs and much larger RAW pictures, and the burst mode takes 8 frames/sec). When the books arrived, I took a quick look to see what David Busch recommended about the speed/size of the memory cards. There was no specific recommendation. So I emailed him with this question, and he responded with info about what type, speed, size and brand of CF cards he personally uses.

Bottom line, this book is an excellent guide if you don't mind a detailed guide with the author's recommendations and sometimes his personal choice of settings (he explains why) plus other general DSLR information, information about lenses, etc. Remember, even if you are a newbie, you will probably at some point need some information about available lenses and what to get, etc. If you need just a compact guide to the 7D, then get his David Busch's Compact Field Guide For The Canon EOS 7D.

The Field Guide is probably the book you will continue to use for reference long after you have become very familiar with the 7D. To start with though, I recommend that you read this full guide to really understand all the features/menus/custom functions/buttons, the author's explanations, recommendations etc. This is a new generation camera with very complex features that one needs to understand to use it to the maximum. Remember, this DSLR is even more advanced than the full-frame Canon 5D Mark II which, like its predecessor the 5D, a legend.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2010

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I bought this book about a month ago and have read most of the meaty chapters. I'm currently on the chapter about lighting. David Busch is an excellent writer.... he tosses in a few humorous lines to enliven the subject matter. He seems to have a personal fascination with the 7D, and rarely says anything negative about it. His excitement about the camera is contagious. I have since found that he has written SEVERAL books similar to this one, and also books on photography. Nonetheless, his approach is fresh, for the most part, and he gets very detailed about his descriptions of the different camera functions. The photographs, diagrams, and other figures are very helpful and clear. He covers the autofocus mechanisms of the 7D in a very clear manner. I really appreciate his in-depth descriptions of how the camera focuses (using two different methods), and what the focusing settings mean. I found this chapter to be worth the price of the book. A few areas left me disappointed, however. First, I really want to know more about what the mRAW and sRAW formats do and how they do it. His explanations were not sufficient for me. I also found the section of movies lacking some detail. For example, when you set the camera to M(anual), and take movies, you have control of the shutter speed, f-stop, and ISO settings. How do these impact the results of your movies? I actually needed to read Canon's manual for the info he neglected to put in the book. I also feel that some of the chapters may have been lifted from his general photography books.... topics like how to take better movies, sound recording, studio lighting, lens choices, etc. These, and other topics are more general and not specific to the 7D. Still, they are instructive, but interfered with the continuity of the book.

This book will remain on my shelf for as long as I own the 7D.... it is an excellent reference!

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Martin of Holland

Add your pencil marks!

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2010

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You definitely need as book that goes beyond Canon's little guide, and this books seems the best. Not perfect.
Throughout there's button this or selection wheel that. Certainly if you haven't the camera in front of you, you wonder where that button is - top, rear?. A fold-out page that you can keep open, showing and naming all these buttons and dials would be handy. Now you have to leaf through the book to find it on various pages.

On page 92 we are told to press the Quick Control button. There is a quick control DIAL, whown on page 58, but no such button. It has a button in the middle, but that's called the SET button. Is that what you mean?

Cross-references cannot be avoided in a book like this. We are referred to a chapter, not to a certain page. So the book now has many pencil marks added, showing what page.
On page 91 we are referred to table 4.1 - which is not the same as figure 4.1 - what we're looking for is actually on page 76. Now is that so hard to mention?

Some things still puzzle me. Why and when should be use the Program mode, for instance, rather than the creative auto mode? This gets relatively little attention on page 28, again on page 76 and 91. More pencil marks!
I could go on: selecting a focal point is discussed on page 33, also on page 121.
You will not be surprised that there are now pencil marks on both pages, referring to the other - since "go to chapter 8" still means leafing through lots of pages.

Concluding: the book helps you along auite well, but you need an extra roadmap to find it all. Or a pencil.

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Tin Tactoo

Written In plain English with wonderful illustrations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2021

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This book by David Busch relating to the Canon 7D is quite a revelation as it shows assorted procedures that the Canon own book never even reaches. Its all done and nicely laid out with wonderfully clear photos by way of illustration plus its well written that is understandable without having to have a degree in English literature. This is the second David Busch camera book I have bought and each one has been well worth the money as they are informative and well illustrated.

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Keith R. Sauerwald

A great book for a great camera.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2012

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At this point in time, I have only had the oportunity to browse through this book because I haven't got the camera yet! I'll be buying that on my soon to be trip to Singapore. So, I thought it logical to buy this very informative book while I'm passing time prior to my visit in January. But, I found that reading the book without the camera, is like reading with my eyes closed.However, the book is full of need to know information, most of which can only be put together with the help of the camera. If you own one of these cameras or are going to buy one, then this book is a neccessity to have.

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G. Pearson

amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2013

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if your still learning about your eos 7d like me even though i'v had it for a year this book is def for you its amazing it shows you pics of what your doing so you feel a bit more confident and goes in to detail in a way you can understand I know I will wear this book out... cant say enough about it and all this from somebody who has never read a single book in all my 44 years cant stand reading its garbage.. so my wife was rather shocked too... credit wear its due . outstanding book

Michael C.

Best Guide Around

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2014

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David Busch book was recommended through other posts on Amazon and I am pleased I bought the book. Not only is it well explained but the author adds tips that he uses as a guide. The chapters are well laid out covering all the options available on the EOS 7D. This is one of those books that you pick up on a regular basis to see what else the camera can do; a very useful reference book. If you have a Canon EOS 7D then you need this book.

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Mark

David Busch's Canon EOS7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2012

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I was fortunate enough to purchase this book and read it before my EOS 7D arrived. This book is a must read if you want to get to grips with this camera straight from the off.
If your upgrading from an earlier EOS camera then as the book says you can jump chapters however if like me this the 7D is your first major camera purchase it's a fantastic guide.
It's really well writen and provides an insight into best practice from an author with years of practicle expereince in the field.

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