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The Digital SLR Handbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Ilex
Category: Book
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 24146
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised 2nd Edition
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1905814178
EAN: 9781905814176
ASIN: 1905814178
Publication Date: April 28, 2008
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Brilliant July 23, 2008
ED
I am very much a hobbyist photographer with a limited in depth knowledge. This book is extremely helpful, not only does it help you understand how to use and set up your digital slr, but it explains technique for taking photos and provides a lot of helpful information regarding everything digital photography related. If you are only going to buy one book, i suggest you get this one.
Excellent book for the more serious digtal photographer July 9, 2008
S. Hall
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have learned more about the working and setup of my digital SLR from this book than by reading the camera's manual alone. This book explains the reasons certain features are useful and why you may want to use them, where the manual just skips over what options are available and a brief description.
For example, I now understand what the histogram display is telling me and what I can do with that information, why I may want White Balance Bracketing and what to watch out for when using my 35mm camera lenses on my digital SLR.
It does not just give details of the SLR itself, but proceeds in great detail on other associated subjects - Colour Calibration, editing, optimising, distribution and storage. It gives advice on accessories (flashguns, tripods, backup storage etc), hardware (laptops, wi-fi, printers) and probably every aspect of photgraphy that a professional would need to consider as far as 'tools of the trade' are concerned.
This book refers to Adobe Photoshop CS3 in detail, but does also give examples of other alternatives for editing and archiving your photos.
It is not a light read, but goes into a large amount of technical detail in several areas (it has the best article I've read on the differences between the various sensors used by different manufacturers).
If you just bought your digital SLR for a bit of light relief and aren't really concerned with how it does what it does then this probably isn't the book for you. However, if you are interested in getting the most from your camera and really want it to produce the picture your mind thought it had taken, then this gives the information and guidance that you wil need.
I have a couple of minor issues, relating to the sequence of the articles and the examples shown. For example the section on Advanced Optimising mentions Curves and Levels, which are actually explained a few pages after this article (although it is cross-referenced). And some of the before/after examples are printed too small for me to actually see any differences, although the descriptions in the related articles do describe what I should be able to see.
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