Product Description

This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 12.2 megapixel Canon A700. If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting on this high-quality camera in a clear, well-illustrated style, with many integrated tips and QuickSteps, but it also does much more. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You'll find that this guide helps you quickly master your camera so you ll be getting the kinds of photos you hope for.

The book is printed in black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. This eBook also includes clickable links to 50 or so interactive animations that illustrate the core concepts of digital photography. These animations allow you to interact with such concepts as exposure compensation, lens focal lengths, histograms, and much, much more. (To use these animations you do need an Internet connection.)

Just some of the things you'll learn are how to take pictures in fully automatic point and shoot mode and how your camera captures digital images; how to play back and manage your images; how to use buttons, dials, and menus; control image size and quality; shoot continuously, use all of the camera's exposure modes and exposure controls to get photos that show the scene exactly as it is, or as you want to interpret it; use histograms for the best possible exposures; see how to control sharpness in your photographs; and how to use focus, depth-of-field, sharpness, softness, and blur creatively. Learn all about light and color and how to use them creatively. Understand how they change throughout the day and seasons, how they re affected by the weather, and how light's direction and quality affects highlights and shadows. See how to set white balance to capture colors the way you see them. Learn how to use lenses creatively when photographing scenery, interiors, people, and very small subjects. See how zoom and macro mode affects your images. See how to creatively use an external flash both indoors and out and in good light and bad and how to use studio lighting for product shots and portraits. Explore special techniques such as RAW image formats, D-range optimization, fill and slow sync flash. See how to use continuous photography, creative styles that control tone, sharpness and hue, shoot in black & white, enter a print order, and care for your camera, including cleaning the image sensor.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #378283 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-14
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 148 pages

About the Author
For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and digital photography have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. They have been widely used in schools, by most of the armed services, many police departments, and even a number of camera companies to train specialists in photography. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Time-Warner's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to edit, publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing.

Customer Reviews

Review of, A Short Course in Sony A700 Photography book/ebook.
A Short Course in Sony A700 Photography book/ebook is, I feel, a very nicely written book. It has guided me though setting up for the perfect shot. The included CD has the book in PDF format and in color. Very pleasing to thumb through on my screen. I have used SLR's before turning to my F-828 and now the Alpha 700. So going digital is not new to me, but some of the lessons in this book made me see my errors. The side notes are very nice too. Thank you for putting out this book.

~ DB

Complete Easy to Understand Manual
This is an easy to understand complete book on the Sony A700 digital camera. Not only does it explain all the functions in complete detail but it also covers the basics of Photography. If you have been shooting awhile but have never taken any formal training then this book will also help you or at least cover items you may have forgotten than you learned on your own. I especially recommend this book for anyone first starting out.

Photography ebook
The users manual for the Sony A700 is great if you are into photography full time, but left me wanting for information.

The A Short Course in Sony A700 fills the void left by the users manual. The book also provides a CD that links to web sites for more information on how the A700 works. In fact it covers more than the Sony A700.

The Short Course in Sony A700 details all of the function of the camera and how to use them and get the most out of them.

All in all the book was well layed out and easy to read and follow.
A very good.

Down side:
This book looks like it has been photocopied and for the price I expected more.