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New updated edition of the UK's bestselling guide to digital photography. Concise, practical, up-to-date and easy to follow, The Digital Photography Handbook is the complete companion for any digital photographer. Going Digital - the basics, including choosing a camera and equipment, setting up, taking shots and camera care Using your Digital Camera - tips for taking great photographs, with inspirational ideas for every genre: portraits, holidays, weddings, children, flora & fauna, abstracts... The Digital Darkroom - improving, adapting and rescuing images on a computer: basic, advanced and professional techniques Output - getting the best end result, on-line or in print, and creating a portfolio
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The Digital Photography Handbook – the comprehensive guide to digital photography
Includes expert advice on: Types of camera; computers, software and other accessories; pixels and magnification; memory; saving images; composing pictures; exposure; light; camera modes; manipulating images; special effects; scanning; retouching old photos; printing digital images; selecting printers and paper; archiving; e-mailing images; getting your pictures on the web --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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79 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're relatively new to the world of digital photography, or about to purchase a digicam, then you NEED this book - it's jam-packed with useful stuff! Starting off with what equipment you'll actually need, it looks at effective photo techniques for a range of subjects, together with creative tips to help enhance the resulting shots. There's an in-depth look at digital image-editing software, with plenty of inspiring examples showing the effectiveness of both basic & advanced techniques, all clearly explained in a jargon-free way. this is a pretty essential read!
62 of 64 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book, can't believe it was so cheap. This is a well written book with all you need to know about digital photography from what camera to buy to printing off your well executed photos. It is written in basic terms which is useful as I bought this book as a present for my old man who is a bit of a Luddite who now uses an Ixus instead of his beloved 35mm lump, and even he can follow it.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Cheaper than many books, and just about small enough to take with you on a holiday when you might use the camera, but there are several fairly obvious problems:
In the section about about "How many megapixels", the pictures used to show larger images aren't very informative - the picture suitable for 5x7 prints is about 1.75x2.25, and the one that's apparently OK for 420mm x 594mm is 82mm x 91mm (units swap between inches and mm and you're left to do any conversion yourself). Obviously the full size pics would be too big for the book, but we could have at least a detail to represent the image quality at the size discussed, and/or a picture showing the relative sizes correctly.
In the Memory and Memory cards section, SDHC cards get barely a mention and there's some puzzling maths. We're told that a 16Mb card will hold about 50 standard quality shots and one high-quality shot. Then "A 32Mb card will hold around 10 high-quality shots and a 128Mb around 30." Why the number of shots on a card four times bigger than 32Mb is not "around 40", I have no idea. And it's all pretty irrelevant as a search for SD cards on Amazon failed to find anything smaller than 1Gb (eight times the size of the biggest card discussed in the book).
Zoom lens focal lengths: we're told that focal lengths are specified by comparison with the focal length of 35mm cameras, but this is followed up by "They are indicated on the camera lens in millimetres." The focal lengths shown on the cameras are usually NOT "35mm equivalent", and the book contains quite a few pictures of cameras which prove this point.
"Which computer" page: more outdated information: you're advised to buy a PC with a minimum of around "100 gigabytes (80 Gb)". Yes, it really does suggest that 80 and 100 are the same number! And this in a day and age when it's pretty much impossible to buy a new desktop PC with a hard drive smaller than 250Gb. Then we have "Another item to ensure you have in a PC is a 'fast' processor; the processor does all the computing for you. Intel is a well-known manufacturer that makes Pentium processors while another reputable manufacturer AMD makes Celeron processors." The unnecessary quotes around 'fast' are a classic sign of a writer who doesn't really know his subject, and sure enough AMD don't make Celeron processors - Intel do.
The general advice about taking photos all seems pretty sound, but on topics like composition there's not much that you couldn't lift wholesale from a book from the pre-digital era.
My single experience with the index was poor - on looking up "filters", you only get page numbers for the coverage of special effects filters in image editing software. If you want to find the (skimpy) coverage of the filters that go on the front of lenses, you must look under "lenses" in the index.
This is a fast-changing field and the information at the back of the book says "First published in 2005. This updated edition published in 2008". My guess is that the stale technical numbers are still there from 2005. If you claim that a book about fast-moving technical stuff has been updated, the job needs doing properly.
These may all seem picky little points, but each one does its bit to erode my confidence in the parts of the book where I need help.
In the section about about "How many megapixels", the pictures used to show larger images aren't very informative - the picture suitable for 5x7 prints is about 1.75x2.25, and the one that's apparently OK for 420mm x 594mm is 82mm x 91mm (units swap between inches and mm and you're left to do any conversion yourself). Obviously the full size pics would be too big for the book, but we could have at least a detail to represent the image quality at the size discussed, and/or a picture showing the relative sizes correctly.
In the Memory and Memory cards section, SDHC cards get barely a mention and there's some puzzling maths. We're told that a 16Mb card will hold about 50 standard quality shots and one high-quality shot. Then "A 32Mb card will hold around 10 high-quality shots and a 128Mb around 30." Why the number of shots on a card four times bigger than 32Mb is not "around 40", I have no idea. And it's all pretty irrelevant as a search for SD cards on Amazon failed to find anything smaller than 1Gb (eight times the size of the biggest card discussed in the book).
Zoom lens focal lengths: we're told that focal lengths are specified by comparison with the focal length of 35mm cameras, but this is followed up by "They are indicated on the camera lens in millimetres." The focal lengths shown on the cameras are usually NOT "35mm equivalent", and the book contains quite a few pictures of cameras which prove this point.
"Which computer" page: more outdated information: you're advised to buy a PC with a minimum of around "100 gigabytes (80 Gb)". Yes, it really does suggest that 80 and 100 are the same number! And this in a day and age when it's pretty much impossible to buy a new desktop PC with a hard drive smaller than 250Gb. Then we have "Another item to ensure you have in a PC is a 'fast' processor; the processor does all the computing for you. Intel is a well-known manufacturer that makes Pentium processors while another reputable manufacturer AMD makes Celeron processors." The unnecessary quotes around 'fast' are a classic sign of a writer who doesn't really know his subject, and sure enough AMD don't make Celeron processors - Intel do.
The general advice about taking photos all seems pretty sound, but on topics like composition there's not much that you couldn't lift wholesale from a book from the pre-digital era.
My single experience with the index was poor - on looking up "filters", you only get page numbers for the coverage of special effects filters in image editing software. If you want to find the (skimpy) coverage of the filters that go on the front of lenses, you must look under "lenses" in the index.
This is a fast-changing field and the information at the back of the book says "First published in 2005. This updated edition published in 2008". My guess is that the stale technical numbers are still there from 2005. If you claim that a book about fast-moving technical stuff has been updated, the job needs doing properly.
These may all seem picky little points, but each one does its bit to erode my confidence in the parts of the book where I need help.
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A good book keeping up to date - just.
I feel that books with a title like this one must be strictly kept up to date. The author of this one is doing OK just now but he needs to keep his eye on the ball from now on. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Nordic crime fan
Christmas Present
I bought this as a Xmas present for my son. He was very pleased with the book. I must add he is quite an experienced and creative photographer. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Kenell
Digital Photography made accessable
Unfortunately a bit too big for your back pocket but Doug Harman's clear explanations take the mystique out of the Digital Camera scenario. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Kernow
Digital Photography Handbook
Good practical book which covers all areas of setting up and taking pictures digitally
Handy size to have with you
It goes into equipment and software and... Read more
Handy size to have with you
It goes into equipment and software and... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by D. S. Brocklesby
Digital Photograpy Handbook
Excellent book; concise, well illustrated and easy to read and all at a reasonable price.
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by GKMN
Beginners guide
I am new to digital photography. I was given the gift of a digital camera with no idea how to use it. Bought this as a guide to get me started. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2009 by Mrs. A. C. Thomson
A useful starter
This really is probably for people fairly new to digital photography. However - for the price - it certainly is reasonable value for money. Read more
Published on 26 July 2009 by totnes_nigel
A good place to start
I have recently taken the plunge (I`m over 70) and bought a small camera which works with my computer. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2009 by Charles D. Roberts
Good Introduction to Photography
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as it went into enough depth for me to get to grips with beginning in photography. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2009 by G. Ingram
The digital photography handbook
Very good and quite up to date considering how fast things are changing
I have just obtained at a reasonable price a 13 mp camera that even this book would find high
I have just obtained at a reasonable price a 13 mp camera that even this book would find high
Published on 10 April 2009 by Mrs. P. A. Heaney
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