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Canon EOS 40D Guide to Digital Photography

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Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 2101

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 324
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.8

ISBN: 1598635107
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.33
EAN: 9781598635102
ASIN: 1598635107

Publication Date: November 16, 2007
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Product Description
As the new owner of Canon's most advanced intermediate digital SLR, you want to get started taking professional-looking photographs using all of the exciting features at your fingertips. "Canon EOS 40D Guide to Digital SLR Photography" is a concise introduction and guide to your camera's essential controls and functions, such as Live View, built-in dust reduction, and the blistering 6.5-frames-per-second continuous shooting mode that is an action photographer s dream. The book provides detailed instructions showing you how, when, and why to make optimized settings with the Canon EOS 40D s enhanced menus, which include a half-dozen versatile new custom functions. You'll learn about the camera's improved automatic focus, flash synchronization tricks, how to choose lenses that will provide the perspective and effects you want, and which exposure modes are ideal for each picture-taking opportunity. Packed with full-color images and examples that illustrate the recommended techniques and settings for your Canon EOS 40D, this book helps photographers of any skill level begin maximizing their equipment as soon as you open the cover!

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5 out of 5 stars

If you have a Canon 40D you need this book December 25, 2007
aputerlady (Myrtle Beach, SC United States)
71 out of 77 found this review helpful

If you have a Canon 40D you need this book. It has great pictures and illustrations and explains each setting on the Canon 40D and why you care. It's the equivalent of a "missing manual". Do yourself a favor, read this book and skip the unreadable manual.

5 out of 5 stars

excellent detailed explaination of Canon 40D December 27, 2007
Mark (San Francisco, CA)
60 out of 65 found this review helpful

The book is about 300 pages dedicated to the 40D. The book is extremely detailed. Basically, everything you will need to know including the included software that came with the 40D. It's written in a very personal way from David Busch and its kinda like having him actually there. Highly recommended.

3 out of 5 stars

Good general book, but with important error March 28, 2008
Big Bear (San Jose, CA USA)
38 out of 51 found this review helpful

I bought this book along with a EOS 40D after reading the many good reviews here. This book is definitely a good companion to the user manual but there is an important error in the book:

On page 124 under the chapter "Bracketing", the books says:
In Av mode, the aperture will change, while in Tv mode, the shutter speed will change.

This is wrong and is a critical mistake because the Canon manual did not explain how the Auto Exposure Bracketing works. So if you refer to that chapter in this book you'll get the wrong idea. It should read:
In Av mode, the shuttle speed will change, while in Tv mode, the aperture will change.

Another area that I wished this book do better is in the area of manual exposure. This is an important aspect of photography and the brief coverage means most users will only glance at it, thinking they'll never need it.

Otherwise, recommended if you are new to digital SLR camera and have or is thinking about buying a Canon EOS 40D.

3 out of 5 stars

Fails to Reveal the Secrets of the 40D June 2, 2008
Jacques49 (Pittsburgh, PA)
35 out of 39 found this review helpful

The Canon EOS 40 D Guide by David Busch is a very readable book, but it fails to reveal the secrets to shooting the Canon 40 D at the highest and most efficient levels. Four months ago I took a big leap and went from a Kodak point and shoot camera to a Canon 40 D with four very good (and expensive) lenses. I was initially very disappointed with my images compared to ones I had shot with my Kodak camera; they weren't very sharp and the colors seemed washed out. So what did I do: I bought three books on the 40D, a DVD guide to the 40D, and took an on-line course with a professional instructor on the 40D. The Busch's book was the first one I purchased ,and after reading it in detail, my picture taking did not improve.

Half-way through my on-line course, I bought my third book, the Digital Field Guide by Charlotte Lowrie, and only then did I really learn the secrets of the 40D.Here is what the Digital Field Guide revealed to me: 1. The importance of Picture Styles and how/why each owner of a 40 D should explore modifying the default style settings. 2. A detailed review of the 40 D's Custom Functions with suggestions from an experienced 40 D user. 3. How to set up Camera User Settings (C1, C2, and C3 on the Mode dial). 4. Some real practical insights to using the 40 D in the field and some further insights to the 40 D and Canon lenses by listing the lenses and settings for the photos contained in the book.

Busch's book is much easier read than Lowrie's, but it does not get into customized Picture Styles in enough detail and failed to discuss entering Camera User Settings at all. Maybe if I had been an experienced user of the Canon 30D moving up to the 40D the Busch book might have worked for me, but I needed the more specific guidance on set-up and use in the field that I got from the Lowrie book. If you are buying just one book on the 40 D get Lowrie's, but I am glad that I have both.

5 out of 5 stars

If this is your first DSLR, this book is a must own. March 17, 2008
M. Kang (Venice, CA USA)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful

This book covers, in plain English, all the features, options and functions, of the 40D. You won't be disappointed. Before I bought this book, I read the manual that comes with the camera. Even thought the manual is great for getting you the "how-to" do something, this book, gives you more of the "why you should do it" and "what happens" if you do something a certain way. I suppose you could just trial-and-error everything instead, some people are like that, but if you're not that kind of person and want to be able to master your new camera, this book will certainly help you do that more quickly.

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