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-colour 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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #176404 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 324 pages

Customer Reviews

The pennies have dropped
I had attended a training session provided by Canon designed for new owners of 40Ds (and other models); this was a very good course.

The book allowed me to build on what I learned and to make substantial steps forward by providing answers to the questions that I didn't have the knowledge or understanding to ask. If anyone is scheduled for the Canon training I suggest that you make the very modest investment in this book and read it before the course. It is written in a style that makes it very easy to read; I read the entire book at a single sitting. The illustrations are excellent and support the text perfectly. Probably won't be a long-time fixture but at this point in time it is proving to be a perfect companion because I am at the lower end of the learning curve and want to make progress quickly.

It is probably a book for beginners but the value and impact it has had on me in putting the pieces together cannot be overstated; the sound of pennies dropping must have been deafening

The manual on steoriods
The first part of the book is just an extended manual. It goes through the camera menus and settings just like the manual does, although in a bit more details. In the second part of the book talks about exposure, lenses and lightning, and finishes off with a bit about image download and 40D troubleshooting.

Whether or not you will get something out of this book depends heavily on long you have had your 40D and how long you have been take photographs.

If the 40D is your very first digital SLR camera, and you have only just bought it, this book will teach you a lot of new stuff and will properly be of great value.

If you have owned previous Canon SLR cameras, or if you have been using the 40D for a while, the first part of the book can easily be skipped, since it will properly hold very little to nothing that you won't already know. Depending on you knowledge of exposure and lighting there might be some new knowledge to be gained in the second part of the book. The part about lenses and image download will not bring any new knowledge if you have brought just on lens and downloaded images more than 5 times.

In conclusion I would say the this is a book for people how have just brought the 40D as their very first SLR camera, in which case it will be a good help in getting started - but if you have had your 40D for more than 6 month or so, this book will bring very little that you didn't know about the camera already. If you want to learn about exposure and lightning, you will properly be better off buying a dedicated book about these subjects.

First time SLR user: ****
Having previous SLR experience: **
Over all: ***

Throw away the manual
Throw away the little manual that came with your 40D and invest in this instead.
Very well written and can be read from cover to cover unlike a manual. Full of interesting little insights on getting the most from your new camera.
I am on my second reading and I am still discovering little gems.