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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shooting Your First Canon Digital Rebel XT Picture | |
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| Getting Ready to Shoot | |
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| Selecting a Shooting Mode | |
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| Choosing a Metering Mode | |
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| Choosing a Focus Mode | |
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| Selecting a Focus Point | |
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| Other Settings | |
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| Adjusting White Balance and ISO | |
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| Using the Self-Timer | |
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| Reviewing the Images You've Taken | |
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| Transferring Photos to Your Computer | |
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| Canon Digital Rebel XT Roadmap | |
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| The Canon Digital Rebel XT's Public Face | |
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| The Canon Digital Rebel XT's Business End | |
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| Going Topside | |
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| LCD Panel Readouts | |
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| Lens Components | |
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| Looking Inside the Viewfinder | |
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| Underneath Your Digital Rebel XT | |
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| Setting Up Your Canon Digital Rebel XT | |
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| Anatomy of the Digital Rebel XT's Menus | |
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| Shooting Menu 1/2 Options | |
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| Quality Settings | |
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| Red-Eye Reduction | |
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| Beep | |
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| Autofocus Mode | |
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| Metering Mode | |
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| ISO Speed | |
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| Automatic Exposure Bracketing | |
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| Flash Exposure Compensation | |
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| White Balance | |
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| White Balance Shift and Bracketing | |
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| Custom White Balance | |
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| Color Space | |
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| Parameters | |
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| Playback Menu Options | |
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| Protect | |
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| Rotate | |
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| Print Order | |
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| Auto Play | |
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| Review Time | |
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| Set-up Menu Options | |
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| Auto Power Off | |
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| Auto Rotate | |
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| LCD Brightness | |
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| Date/Time | |
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| File Numbering | |
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| Format | |
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| Shoot Without Card | |
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| Language | |
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| Video System | |
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| Communication | |
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| Custom Functions | |
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| Clear Settings | |
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| Sensor Cleaning | |
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| Firmware Version | |
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| Getting the Right Exposure | |
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| Getting a Handle on Exposure | |
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| How the Digital Rebel XT Calculates Exposure | |
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| Choosing a Metering Method | |
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| Choosing a Creative Zone Exposure Method | |
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| A-DEP | |
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| Aperture Priority | |
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| Shutter Priority | |
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| Program Mode | |
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| Manual Exposure | |
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| Selecting an Autofocus/Exposure Zone Manually | |
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| Adjusting Exposure with ISO Settings | |
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| Bracketing | |
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| Dealing with Noise | |
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| Fixing Exposures with Histograms | |
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| Basic Zone Modes | |
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| Advanced Shooting with Your Canon Digital Rebel XT | |
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| More Exposure Options | |
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| Very Short Exposures | |
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| Working with Short Exposures | |
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| Long Exposures | |
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| Three Ways to Take Long Exposures | |
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| Working with Long Exposures | |
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| Delayed Exposures | |
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| Self-Timer | |
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| Getting into Focus | |
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| Focus Pocus | |
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| Adding Circles of Confusion | |
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| Making Sense of Sensors | |
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| Your Autofocus Mode Options | |
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| Setting AF Point | |
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| Continuous Shooting | |
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| Setting Image Paramaters | |
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| Customizing White Balance | |
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| Image Processing Parameters | |
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| Working with Lenses | |
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| But First, a Word from Our Sensor | |
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| Your First Lens | |
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| Buy Now, Expand Later | |
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| What Lenses Can You Use? | |
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| EF vs. EF-S | |
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| Ingredients of Canon's Alphanumeric Soup | |
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| Your Second (and Third) Lens | |
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| What Lenses Can Do for You | |
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| Zoom or Prime? | |
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| Categories of Lenses | |
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| Using Wide-Angle and Wide-Zoom Lenses | |
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| Avoiding Potential Wide-Angle Problems | |
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| Using Telephoto and Tele-Zoom Lenses | |
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| Avoiding Telephoto Lens Problems | |
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| Telephotos and Bokeh | |
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| Add-ons and Special Features | |
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| Lens Hoods | |
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| Telephoto Extenders | |
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| Macro Focusing | |
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| Image Stabilization | |
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| Working with Light | |
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| Continuous Illumination versus Electronic Flash | |
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| Continuous Lighting Basics | |
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| Daylight | |
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| Incandescent/Tungsten Light | |
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| Fluorescent Light/Other Light Sources | |
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| Adjusting White Balance | |
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| Electronic Flash Basics | |
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| How Electronic Flash Works | |
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| Using the Built-in Flash | |
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| Basic Zone Flash | |
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| Creative Zone Flash | |
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| Using FE Lock and Flash Exposure Compensation | |
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| Using External Electronic Flash | |
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| Speedlite 580EX | |
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| Speedlite 430EX | |
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| Speedlite 220EX | |
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| More Advanced Lighting Techniques | |
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| Diffusing and Softening the Light | |
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| Using Multiple Light Sources | |
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| Other Lighting Accessories | |
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| Downloading and Editing Your Images | |
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| What's in the Box? | |
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| EOS Utility | |
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| ZoomBrowser/ImageBrowser | |
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| RAW Image Task | |
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| PhotoStitch | |
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| Digital Photo Professional | |
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| Transferring Your Photos | |
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| Direct Transfer | |
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| Using a Card Reader and Software | |
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| Dragging and Dropping | |
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| Editing Your Photos | |
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| Image Editors | |
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| RAW Utilities | |
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| Photoshop CS 2 | |
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| Canon Digital Rebel XT: Troubleshooting and Prevention | |
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| Update Your Firmware | |
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| Official Firmware | |
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| Upgrading Your Firmware | |
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| Protect Your LCD | |
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| Troubleshooting Memory Cards | |
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| All Your Eggs in One Basket? | |
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| What Can Go Wrong? | |
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| What Can You Do? | |
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| Replacing Your Clock Battery | |
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| Clean Your Sensor | |
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| Dust the FAQs, Ma'am | |
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| Identifying and Dealing with Dust | |
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| Avoiding Dust | |
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| Sensor Cleaning | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |