Product Description

The Digital SLR Handbook has been hugely successful thanks to its comprehensive and accessible approach, which makes it easy to absorb the authorâs many years of professional digital photography experience. This edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the rapid pace of change in the digital sector and includes all the latest equipment and software. It explains, in detail, the relevant new features in Photoshop CS3 and brings together the many tools available to help any photographer keep making the right decisions on the road, in the studio or in post-production. Broad in its scope and unrivalled in its depth, the book is packed with solid advice on every aspect of workflow, including in-camera editing, backup, storage, file management and archiving, as well as explaining the best tools for every conceivable image edit, from digital noise to creating 360˚ QuickTime panoramas. The original book earned its reputation by leaving no stone unturned; this updated edition is equally thorough.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11153 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Digital Photographer Magazine
"Clear, comprehensive and intelligent. At last a book that
covers all the digital bases."

ephotozine.com
"What Freeman doesn't tell you about digital SLR in this
book probably isn't worth knowing"

Digital Photographer Magazine
"A true guru of digital photography, Michael Freeman has mastered all the principles he teaches."

Customer Reviews

Read this book before buying your new DSLR
Although the user-level is described as advanced, this book is accessible to anyone interested enough in photography to buy a DSLR.
Starting with an introduction to the various pieces of hardware, it progresses through to exposure, lighting and colour management.
Calibration of camera, computer monitor, scanners and printers is also covered, topics which previously never even occurred to me.
Image manipulation using editing software is then covered in detail, with tips on how to cure common image faults(Photoshop is referred to in most examples, although the same principles apply to The Gimp which I use, as it is available for free).
Having just moved from a point and shoot digital camera to a DSLR, I found this book has given me a good grounding in the basic technical principles of digital photography.

Flash, bang, wallop - what a picture, what a photogaph!
As someone who is relatively new to photography generally and not simply digital photography, I was a little wary that this book as aimed, so it says, at those making the transition from film to digital. I need not have worried because the presentation of this book is straight forward enough for even a novice like me to understand. I have gained such an awesome insight into the world of digital photography from this book and I've only had it a week! Simply put, if you want to get the most out of your digital SLR, get this book.

A recipe for DLSR success
The DSLR handbook is a great purchase for photographers making the transition to using a digital SLR for their photography. To get the best from this expensive toy, this book is a must read. Digital is different from using film for a host of reasons and this book help get you familiar with the whole digital world. It explains about the digital SLR, lenses choices,through the realms of digital capture, the digital workflow and the digital darkroom, and there's even a chapter on scanning your existing film images.

The book is well written in clear language with plenty of illustrations throughout. Read this and you will avoid some of the many pitfalls experienced by newcomers to digital.