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Title: The Little Digital Camera Book by Cynthia Baron, Daniel Peck ISBN: 0-321-12530-4 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Intro To Digital Photoghraphy
Comment: After purchasing my first digital camera recently, I read "The Little Digital Camera Book". I had previous experience with film cameras but soon realized that I needed general information on manipulating, storing and printing digital files. I foung this book very useful for obtaining a basic understanding of organizing files, using different file types and using image or photo editing software. This book also explains the printing possibilities, from do-it-yourself to local printing establishments to on-line resources for photo printing. "The Little Digital Camera Book" is relevant to PC and Mac users alike, and is an excellent value.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chris Seibold MyMac.com Book Review
Comment: If you were lucky enough to receive a digital camera for Christmas you may be wondering just how to use said new gizmo. Perhaps your questions are even more fundamental: Is this the camera for me? If it's not can I exchange this camera for a cheaper one and keep the difference? Just where does the film go anyway? Cynthia Baron wants to answer your questions and she wants to make a little dough in the process. To achieve this laudable goal she and Daniel Beck have written The Little Digital Camera Book. The Little Digital Camera Book is a good read for anyone who just bought a digital camera and a great book for anyone who is getting ready to buy a digital camera. The Little Digital Camera Book is not as well suited for the intermediate user or for the budding Ansel Adams who understands the technical aspects and aspires to take better pictures.
The Little Digital Camera Book opens with a very brief history of photography followed by a few steps to prepare your computer for the imminent image exchanges. If you have more than a passing familiarity with RAM and why you need it skip to Chapter 2 that's when the book first becomes useful. Chapter 2 of The Little Digital Camera Book is a potentially big money saver if you're one of those bigger numbers must be better type of person. If you read carefully you'll realize you don't need that 5-megapixel-money pit, a 2 megapixel will likely suit your needs. The rest of the chapter is fairly useful as well, though you are not going to end up saving a couple of hundred bucks by continuing to follow Cynthia L. Baron's advice. If you just can't bring yourself to part with the ... cover price of The Little Digital Camera Book at least stand and read chapter 2 in your local bookstore; the advice therein is well worth following.
The rest of the book is not as immediately useful to the novice user but the majority of The Little Digital Camera Book will be useful to the average digital camera owner at some point. You get your basic photo composition tips (rule of thirds et al), your basic image editing tips (though these a bit too general to truly be useful), some info on storage options and just enough info on online versus local printing options. All of the information is pertinent and all of it is well presented. The information you find most useful will undoubtedly not be the info I find most germane but there's something in The Little Digital Camera Book for everyone.
I do have a few gripes about The Little Digital Camera Book. The same camera is used as the model throughout the book. This is fine if you own an Olympus but if you use any other brand of camera you might feel a bit cold-shouldered. Since The Little Digital Camera Book is (presumably) a book aimed at just about any novice user it might have been more interesting if a variety of cameras were used for demonstration purposes. My last gripe regards color photographs. Photography books have to address color and color correction owing to the nature of the subject but a precious few actually go to the extra expense of providing color plates to illustrate the point being made. I regard this exclusion as a necessary omission but a few color plates could have put The Little Digital Camera Book at the top of my must have list.
Bottom Line: The Little Digital Camera Book manages to cut a wide swath without being over simplistic or overly detailed. The Little Digital Camera is a nice book for beginners, pros should look elsewhere.
MacMice Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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Chris Seibold
Rating: 5
Summary: Wish I'd Had This Book when I Bought My Digital Camera??
Comment: This is a great book for people who, like me, only have rudimentary knowledge of digital cameras. It answered so many questions that I had about both taking photos on a digital camera, and then editing them on the computer and using online. Highly recommended!
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Title: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques by Ben Willmore ISBN: 0321115635 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry by Kate Clair ISBN: 0471292370 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Robin Williams Design Workshop by Robin Williams, John Tollett ISBN: 0201700883 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 20 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Getting It Printed: How to Work With Printers and Graphic Imaging Services to Assure Quality, Stay on Schedule and Control Costs by Mark Beach, Eric Kenly ISBN: 0891348581 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
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Title: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eiseman ISBN: 0966638328 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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