David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Canon EOS Rebel T3/1100D (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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From the Author The essentials in a smaller size, for your camera bagIn the 148 pages of this compact, 6 x 8-inch lay-flat, spiral-bound book, you'll find in-depth descriptions of every control, menu option, and capability of the Canon T3. It may be less than one-third the size of a traditional user guide, but it's packed full of information.When a command card doesn't provide enough guidance, and other camera guides have too much padding, this Compact Field Guide for your Canon Rebel T3 will give you the advice and recommendations you need quickly.I don't believe you can have too much of a good thing, but readers who have been using my 400-page in-depth guide to master their Canon T3 have asked me to distill the most essential information into a portable field guide for on-the-go reference. Each choice is accompanied by my recommendations and a description of when you should or should not use a particular setting. There are seven no-nonsense chapters:Quick Setup Guide. You -- or someone you loan your T3 to -- can set up the key exposure, autofocus, and other settings in minutes with the step-by-step instructions in this chapter.Streetsmart Canon T3 Roadmap. Can't recall what a particular button or dial does, or don't remember how to access bracketing or another feature you seldom use? This chapter has photos of every control and a description of how to use it.Shooting and Playback Menu Settings. Command cards and cheat sheets provide a menu listing and a recap of the Shooting and Playback options. This chapter explains how to use them, too.Setup and My Menu Settings. You may not use these menus quite as often, which is all the more reason to carry along my instructions on how to use them.Using Flash. Reference guide to working with the T3's internal flash, and Canon's external units.Shooting Movies. I've managed to squeeze in instructions on using the T3's movie-making capabilities, along with tips on shooting better movies in the field.Shooting Tips. Pages and pages of tables listing Shooting Menu and Custom Setting Menu recommendations for a variety of situations, such as stage performances, long exposures, landscapes, and portraits.I know many Canon T3 owners are buying both my "big book" and this Compact Field Guide, so they're equipped with the information they need whether at home or on-the-go. Read more About the Author 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 shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com. Read more
Reviews
This is a great little guide to accompany my Canon Rebel T3. I am new to using digital SLRs (I usually have an automatic, pocket camera or my iPhone). I needed a guide to help me through the settings.This is great. Easily arranged and easy to find the function I need when in the field. This is truly a field guide (not as compact as you might expect size-wise) with a spiral binding.Relatively basic and I am sure there is nothing in this book - which really outlines the functions and settings more than anything else - that someone more versed with an expertise in DSLR's would need.For me, perfect.
