Product Description

This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 14.7 megapixel Canon Powershot G10. It discusses every camera setting on this high-quality camera in a clear, well-illustrated style, with many integrated tips and easy-to-follow QuickSteps, but it also does much more. You'll also learn the concepts of photography as you learn 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 able to get the kinds of photos you had hoped for.

The printed edition of the book is black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back on itself.

The eBook edition of the book, available as an instant download or on a CD disc, is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. You can print it out in whole or part in high resolution, and read it on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader, or any up-to-date Web browser. This eBook also includes clickable links to 50 or so animations, movies and other resources that illustrate the core concepts of digital photography such 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 in this book 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, including using the popular and high-quality RAW format; 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 take advantage of them. 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 your zoom lens creatively when photographing scenery, interiors, people, and very small subjects. See how to creatively use the built in, and optional external flash, indoors and out and in good light and bad, and how to use studio lighting for product shots and portraits. Explore little known but essential flash techniques such as fill and slow sync flash. Finally, see how to capture panoramas, use continuous photography, control the tonal range, capture movies; customize the camera to better suit your shooting style; and much, much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #218600 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-02
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 162 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 major 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

Expensive substitute for the Canon G10 manual
I ordered this book to learn about the intricacies of my new G10. In contrast with other high tech gadgets, the Canon manual supplied with the camera does a pretty fair job of describing the various functions. Yet there are many areas where more explanation is needed. I purchased this book in hopes that it would lead me to better use and understand how this fine camera works as well as to lead me into new territory.

Unfortunately, the book is more or less just a rehash of what's in that manual. It's printed in black & white and looks like a Xerox copy. That's why the $37.00 plus shipping you'll spend by buying this book would be better spent elsewhere.

I recommend reading your manual from cover to cover and, if you want more depth than it provides, waiting for something better to come along. I did not examine and consequently cannot speak to the quality of the included CD-ROM. Perhaps the color illustrations and animations it reportedly contains would better satisfy my goal of becoming a "power user" of the G10.

Just a stack of photocopies
Regardless of its contents, this "book" is just a stack of photocopies. The amazon description notes it is spiral bound, but not that it was made at a copy shop instead of a printing press. I am surprised that such products are for sale on amazon, and astounded that this packet costs over thirty dollars. Buy something else or just save your money.

G10 Book Best Guide Ever
I have been through this book twice - at least - and have learned so much about my camera that was not in the owner's manual. This book was well worth it for me and will remain a frequent reference - I have tagged many pages - there is a good table of contents in the front but an index would also have been very helpful. The enclosed DVD did not do a whole lot for me but may be helpful for some.
I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to get the most out of their G10 camera.