David Busch’s Canon Powershot G15 Guide to Digital Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides)
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David Busch’s Canon Powershot G15 Guide to Digital Photography (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides) Details
The Canon PowerShot G15 is the most advanced pocket-sized digital camera that Canon has ever introduced. It boasts 12 megapixels of resolution, blazing-fast automatic focus, and a dozen and a half special Scene modes that make it easy to take pictures under any type of conditions. As the owner of a Canon PowerShot G15, you demand the ability to take outstanding pictures with your new camera. DAVID BUSCH'S CANON POWERSHOT G15 GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY shows you how, when, and why to use all the features, controls, and functions of the G15 to take great photographs and movies. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply file formats, resolution, and exposure. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use the Canon PowerShot G15, and use it like a pro!
Reviews
This book has really good information about this camera, and is extremely helpful. It goes beyond the manual that comes with the camera and gives you advice about why to use a feature as well as how. It also gives a bit more of an overview of functions as well as cross-references between them or different aspects, providing a better understanding of how to use the myriad of features. However, with a WARNING for the user, there are small errors here and there throughout the book; in most cases these state the wrong button to use to make a function happen. The first 1 or 2 times I was quite confused, but the camera display usually showed the correct button (or it was otherwise easy to figure out). Also the author states several times that the flash will pop up automatically when used, but that is not true; it requires the manual switch. Moreover, he fails to note that the flash settings button on the control dial are inactive when the the flash is down, active when up - it is context sensitive. Otherwise the descriptions of the functions and how to use them were mostly correct even when the button named was wrong. I suspect that this bit of sloppiness of Busch and his editors was due to the fact that he writes and publishes a huge number of similar books for a variety of cameras. Perhaps he had cut and pasted info from the another similar canon camera and didn't catch all the small changes.