Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide

Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Digital Field Guide Overview

Be a rebel. Demand all your EOS Rebel T2i has to offer

Canon's flagship EOS Rebel offers you professional features, ease of use, an advanced HD movie mode, 3.7 frames per second shooting speed, and a lot of fun. This book provides a roadmap to all the settings and controls, but it does a great deal more. It guides you through effective exposure control, super color secrets, tips on using Live View, making the best lens choices, how to take videos, and advice on getting great action, nature, and portrait shots.

• Set up your T2i to get the highest quality images

• Learn both basic and advanced exposure techniques

• Explore shooting modes, movie mode, and how to get tack-sharp focus

• Refresh your knowledge of composition, exposure, and lighting

• Learn to customize your Rebel T2i and how to add a copyright to your images in the camera

Inside – your free gray and color checker card to help you achieve accurate white balance and color

Customer Reviews

This is a good guide to the relatively new (as of this writing) Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D camera. The book's size is right (you can easily take it with you), it covers all the essentials of the Canon Rebel T2i, it is not too technical, and it's straightforward and easy to read (without needless attempts at constant humor). If you have never used a digital camera before, or if you are simply new to this specific camera, you should have no problem reading, understanding and using this guide. (Photography professionals or serious amateurs are not the target audience for this book.) The author, Charlotte Lowrie, is a professional photographer with 25 years of experience, a photography teacher, and an author of 14 other camera-related books. She should have her act down pat by now, and in my opinion, she does. Although there is a combination of camera-specific information and more generalized photography content throughout this guide, the first four chapters focus primarily on learning the specifics of the Rebel T2i. Chapter 1 starts right where you'd expect--the camera's controls: front, top, rear and side. The author also covers lens controls, media cards, choosing the file format, file numbering and more. Chapter 2 is all about exposure and focus. (After all, taking a photograph is basically the process of controlling how light is exposed to and focused on a light-sensitive sensor of one sort or another.) The reader learns about the various pre-programmed shooting modes, aperture and shutter controls, ISO (sensor sensitivity), metering modes, etc. Chapter 3 is all about getting your colors the way you want, and Chapter 4 focuses on customizing the Canon T2i for your use.

I'll spend less time on the remaining chapters in order not to run too long. Chapter 5 addresses shooting in live view and tethered. Chapter 6 covers using the movie mode on this camera, and Chapter 7 explores the use of flash. Chapter 8 is one of the most important chapters, in my view, since it addresses the question of the right lenses for your camera. The standard kit lens that comes with this camera is a decent value for the money, but you aren't going to be able to make full use of this remarkable camera without the right (better) lenses. If you don't already know, your investment in lenses may ultimately dwarf your investment in the camera itself.

Starting in Chapter 9, the author moves on to some of the creative aspects of photography. She covers elements of exposure and composition in Chapter 9, and then she moves on in Chapters 10, 11, and 12 to event and action photography, nature and landscape photography, and portrait photography, respectively.

So there you have it. In short, this is a very practical and useful guide. It's easy to read, has plenty of helpful color photos, and provides many detailed instructions--like "turn A, then press B, etc." It should prove to be quite useful for many Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D owners.

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