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Author: Charlotte K. Lowrie
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Featuring an 18.0 megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC 4 image processor for high image quality and speed, ISO 100-6400 for shooting from bright to dim light, and many more great features, the Canon EOS Rebel T2i brings professional features into an entry-level digital SLR.
The Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide will teach you how to get the most out of these impressive features so you can improve your photography skills.
CHAPTER 1: Setting Up the EOS Rebel T2i/550D. – This chapter will help you set up your T2i so you can get the best image quality from your Canon T2i. It will also cover different ways to review your images and protect them from accidental deletion.
CHAPTER 2: Controlling Exposure and Focus. – Learn about the different types of shooting modes on your T2i, as well as image exposure and how to modify it for individual shooting scenarios.
CHAPTER 3: Getting Great Color. – This chapter explores the concepts of light and color, and teaches you how to select a white balance and picture style on your T2i for maximum color rendering.
CHAPTER 4: Customizing the EOS Rebel T2i/550D. – Learn how to set up your T2i for common and uncommon shooting situations.
CHAPTER 5: Shooting in Live View and Tethered. – This chapter explains the T2i’s Live View feature and how to shoot tethered to a computer.
CHAPTER 6: Using Movie Mode. – A great starting point for any photographer to explore the world of digital video with the T2i, this chapter will teach you how to shoot and playback video on the T2i.
CHAPTER 7: Using Flash. – This chapter explores flash technology, and how to use the T2i’s on board flash and menu options for the built-in flash and for EX-Series Speedlites.
CHAPTER 8: Exploring Canon Lenses and Accessories. This chapter covers popular T2i lenses and how they impact the images you capture with your T2i.
CHAPTER 9: The Elements of Exposure and Composition. – Learn how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO affect your images, and how they work together to determine exposure. This chapter also covers the basics of composing images with your T2i.
CHAPTER 10: Event and Action Photography. – Learn how to capture action in your images, plus some tips and tricks for general event photography, including how to capture great photos in low lighting.
CHAPTER 11: Nature and Landscape Photography. – This chapter explores how to approach shooting nature and landscape images with your T2i.
CHAPTER 12: Portrait Photography. – Learn how to set up the T2i for portrait shooting, plus information on choosing backgrounds, lighting, and other tips and tricks for taking great portraits.
APPENDIX A: Exploring RAW Capture. – This chapter contains an overview of RAW capture as well as a brief walk-through on converting RAW images into a final image.
APPENDIX B: How to Use the Gray and Color Checker cards. – Learn how to produce photos with accurate color and exposure with these free-inside-the-book tools.
A full-color, portable-trim book with beautiful photography for photographers on the go, the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide includes a free Grey/Color checker card to help you achieve accurate white balance and color. With the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide, you will gain a thorough understanding of the T2i dSLR, as well as the basic fundamentals of capturing the best possible photos.
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- Series: Digital Field Guide (Book 227)
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 10, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470648635
- ISBN-13: 978-0470648636
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.7 x 8.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Free Download Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide
This is a good guide to the relatively new (as of this writing) Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D camera. The book's size is right (you can easily take it with you), it covers all the essentials of the Canon Rebel T2i, it is not too technical, and it's straightforward and easy to read (without needless attempts at constant humor). If you have never used a digital camera before, or if you are simply new to this specific camera, you should have no problem reading, understanding and using this guide. (Photography professionals or serious amateurs are not the target audience for this book.) The author, Charlotte Lowrie, is a professional photographer with 25 years of experience, a photography teacher, and an author of 14 other camera-related books. She should have her act down pat by now, and in my opinion, she does. Although there is a combination of camera-specific information and more generalized photography content throughout this guide, the first four chapters focus primarily on learning the specifics of the Rebel T2i. Chapter 1 starts right where you'd expect--the camera's controls: front, top, rear and side. The author also covers lens controls, media cards, choosing the file format, file numbering and more. Chapter 2 is all about exposure and focus. (After all, taking a photograph is basically the process of controlling how light is exposed to and focused on a light-sensitive sensor of one sort or another.) The reader learns about the various pre-programmed shooting modes, aperture and shutter controls, ISO (sensor sensitivity), metering modes, etc. Chapter 3 is all about getting your colors the way you want, and Chapter 4 focuses on customizing the Canon T2i for your use.
I'll spend less time on the remaining chapters in order not to run too long.
Having preordered this book and received a first printing, I'm looking at a book that has been rushed to market. The overall organization and intent of the book seems good, but the numerous errors are quite distracting. I'd advise waiting for a second printing and hope that the publisher puts some additional resources into proofreading in the meantime.
EDITED 6/4 TO ADD:
Now that I've finished reading the book, the above criticism stands.
However, I'm not so sure I'd recommend a later printing if the publisher only corrected the errors. The problems with this book go far beyond inaccuracies.
I hate to say it, but this is a book that's riddled with editorial neglect. This is the kind of writing that one expects to see on amateur blogs, not in a book released by a generally respected publisher like Wiley. I had always trusted WIley as a publisher based on the many excellent Wiley computer science and math texts from the 70s, 80s and 90s that remain in my permanent collection. Whoever was in charge of editing this Digital Field Guide, though, was clearly either pressed for time or not engaged by their task.
I'd guess that a full 20% or so of the space in this book is dedicated to tedious, repetitive, boring step-by-step instructions about which buttons to push in which order to gain access to the various camera functions. This style of copy-and-paste writing serves no other purpose than to pad the page count without committing the effort necessary to create useful content. Rather than repeating slight variations of the same instruction on every third or fourth page, the author really should have written *once* about how to navigate the menu system.