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David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses

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ISBN-10: 1598634550

ISBN-13: 9781598634556

Edition: 2008

Authors: David D. Busch

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Are you ready to go beyond the basics with your digital SLR camera but are unsure which interchangeable lens or two to buy and more importantly, how and when to use each lens? "David Buschs Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses" offers focused, concise information and techniques on how to use different lenses to take great photographs. Youll begin with a quick overview of how lenses work and the types of lenses available, including normal, telephoto, wide-angle, prime, and zoom. Then youll explore typical lens controls and features such as focus rings, depth-of-field scales, and image stabilization, and how particular settings can help improve your photography. Once you have the…    
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Course Technology
Publication date: 12/31/2007
Binding: Looseleaf - sheets only 
Pages: 192
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while…    

Introduction
A World of Lenses
How a lens works What 'normal' lenses do
What telephoto lenses do
What wide-angle lenses do
Zooming with multi-focal-length lenses
Prime lenses
How F/stops work
Variable and Constant f/stops
Sharpness, Resolution and Acutance
The Need for Speed
The Ubiquitous Crop Factor
Typical Lens
Controls and Features Focus rings
Focus limiters
Depth-of-field scales
Hyperfocal indicators
Zoom controls
Filter threads and why you need them
Do filters 'protect' your lens?
Lens hoods and why you must use them
Vibration
Reduction/Image
Stabilization controls
Filters and Lens Attachments
Using Polarizing Filters
Using Neutral Density Filters
Working with Color Correction
Filters
Special Effects filters
Split Density Filters
Close-Up Filters
Fish-eye Attachments
Raising the Bar on Quality
Your lens' best aperture
Depth-of-field tradeoffs
Diffraction
Testing your lens for sharpness
Shutter speed and lens sharpness
Testing for motion blur
Tripods and monopods to optimize lens sharpness
Optimizing your lens' focus
Focus modes
Autofocus assist
Mirror lockup
Backfocus/front focus
Using Telephoto
Lenses
Long lenses vs. true telephotos
What's magnification?
Importance of telephoto aperture range
Autofocus glitches
Using selective focus
Avoiding telephoto distortion
Pincushion distortion
Compressing distances
Zoom or prime?
What's bokeh?
Using Wide Angle Lenses
Telephotos vs. wide angles
How wide angles work
Choosing a wide angle
Chromatic aberration
Barrel distortion
Perspective distortion
Making size distortion work for you
Emphasizing the foreground
Wide angles and flash
Wide angle depth-of-field
Wide angles and polarizers
Avoid vignetting
Zoom or prime?
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Pros and cons of zooms
Typical zoom ranges
Using wide angle zooms
Using long telephoto zooms
Superzooms
Varifocal vs. true zoom
Macro Lenses and Prime Lenses
Magnification vs. focal length
Choosing a prime lens
Perspective considerations
Depth-of-field up close
Specialized macro lenses vs. general purpose lenses
Close-Up Attachments
Using extension tubes
Using a bellows
Using a reversing ring
Mini-Glossary
Index