Pocket Guides

Digital SLR Pocket Guide
The quick start guide to professional quality photography.

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The latest digital SLR cameras offer superb picture quality, outstanding versatility and remarkable ease of use. But how do you choose the right model, lenses and accessories? Which camera settings should you use for different types of photographs and different lighting conditions?

Photo Review Australia's new Digital SLR Pocket Guide provides easy to follow advice on choosing the right equipment, and teaches you how to use your digital SLR camera easily and effectively. Use this guide to achieve professional quality results from your digital SLR.

1. Choosing the Right Model - A practical guide to selecting the right type of camera for upgraders and new DSLR photographers.

2. Lens Options - The best lenses for taking your favourite kinds of pictures.

3. Camera Functions - Explore the potential of a DSLR's mode dials, menus, displays and drive settings.

4. Exposure Adjustments - Learn how to use aperture, shutter speed settings and different metering patterns.

5. Camera Adjustments - Discover how pre-set scene modes, image adjustments and colour space settings can influence your photography.

6. ISO and White Balance - Understand the issues associated with image noise and adjust your camera for different types of lighting.

7. Focusing and Depth of Field - A guide to the creative applications of selective focusing.

8. Raw vs JPEG Capture - Find out when to use your camera's raw file format - and when JPEG capture is preferable.

9. Subjects and Lighting - A concise explanation of the effects different types of lighting can have on the subjects you photograph.

10. Image Playback - Explore the different playback options DSLR cameras provide.

Author: Margaret Brown
$9.95 incl GST plus $5 delivery (within Australia)
Size: A5, 64pp, perfect bound
ISBN 0-9775714-1-6

Margaret Brown is technical editor of Photo Review magazine and website and has been writing about photography for more than 20 years. Margaret has authored all twelve of the popular Photo Review Pocket Guide series and the Choice Guide to Digital Photography.

Digital SLR Pocket Guide is sponsored by Canon.