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David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

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David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

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The Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D is the most advanced entry-level digital SLR camera that Canon has ever introduced. David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography shows you how to make the most of your camera's robust feature set, including 18 megapixel resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, the real-time preview system Live View, and full HD movie-making capabilities, to take outstanding photos and videos. You'll learn how, when, and, most importantly, why to use all the cool features and functions of your camera to take eye-popping photographs. Introductory chapters will help you get comfortable with the basics of your camera before you dive right into exploring creative ways to apply the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D's exposure modes, focus controls, and electronic flash options. This book is chock full of hands-on tips for choosing lenses, flash units, and software products to use with your new camera. Beautiful, full-color images illustrate where the essential buttons and dials are, so you'll quickly learn how to use your Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D, and use it well. NOW AVAILABLE, David Busch's Canon T2i/550D Camera Companion App for the iPhone and iPad. Buy it today from iTunes.

Product Details

Author:	David D. Busch
Paperback:	384 pages
Publisher:	Course Technology PTR
Publication Date:	June 01, 2010
Language:	English
ISBN:	1435457668
Product Length:	9.0 inches
Product Width:	7.4 inches
Product Height:	1.1 inches
Product Weight:	2.25 pounds
Package Length:	9.06 inches
Package Width:	7.4 inches
Package Height:	0.94 inches
Package Weight:	2.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 34 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.5

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80 of 83 found the following review helpful:

This is the book you need for the T2i Jun 07, 2010 By Lzo. Tomas
I love Busch's books because they are the only camera guides that aren't just rehashes of the vendor's manual, with some pictures added. I tend to upgrade my camera every year or so, and I always buy the author's Guidebook to help me get up to speed quickly with my new purchase. This one, like the others I bought, is both easy to understand and comprehensive. In the first three chapters, you'll learn about setting up your camera and choosing Menu options (including advice not only on what each option is, but why you might want to use it.) This section alone is 134 pages and, because it is a full-size book rather than a pocket-size book, has more information that you find in entire manuals of the rehash variety. Each button, dial, and menu is illustrated with large full color illustrations. This is really a "road map" that gets you started using your T2i very quickly.

After that, the author devotes 250 more pages to explaining how to optimize exposure, sort out the camera's autofocus features, choosing lenses, and working with flash and available light -- all applied directly to the T2i. Busch omits the "padding" you find in other Guidebooks, and I am grateful for that. It does not have sections on how to shoot a generic "sports" picture or "landscape" picture, etc. Everything relates to the T2i. The whole book deals strictly with photography and techniques, too, so you won't find it padded with chapters on how to use the EOS Utility or Digital Photo Pro. All in all, Busch manages to fill this book with an amazing amount of useful information.

There are other books for the T2i out there, but if you want the whole story in words you can understand, this is the one you should buy.

35 of 37 found the following review helpful:

Why aren't all camera guides this good? Jun 08, 2010 By Image Print Reviews
Busch is the world's best-selling camera guide author for a reason. His books are a cut above the other books, which all repeat what you see in the book packaged with the camera, without going into any depth on how to use them. This one is different, with Busch's trademark friendly introduction to the Canon EOS Rebel T2i, accessible to anyone -- novice to veteran -- who wants to learn how to use the camera quickly. In that respect, it's great for beginners. But the author is especially skilled at taking you beyond the basics to explain exactly how to apply the features of the T2i to improve your photographic skills.

Individual chapters of the book explore the finer points of exposure, including the use of histograms, understanding the T2i's autofocus options, HD movie-making, and creative ways to use lenses and light. There are nine chapters in all, each of them dealing with a different aspect of using the EOS T2i. Even the general material on topics like f/stops and exposure all relate directly to his camera.

This book is especially good for those who feel they are "visually oriented." These folks tend to gravitate to DVD instruction, not realizing that such productions are basically audio programs with images, and aren't really visually oriented at all. With a DVD, you're basically using your ears to listen to a talking head explain the camera, and what you hear may not sink in immediately. Busch's guide takes the right visual approach, using large full-color illustrations accompanied by the text you need to quickly understand what the author is explaining. We've reviewed several of Busch's guides, and, after reading this one, still wonder why all camera guides aren't this good.

30 of 32 found the following review helpful:

The Scott Kelby of Camera Guides is Back! Jun 07, 2010 By FredM
Busch has raised the bar again, producing a thorough guide to the Canon EOS Rebel T2i that combines an in-depth look at every feature, technical insights, and the friendly, accessible style of Scott Kelby. As with the other books that have made him the gold standard among camera guides, Busch explains the camera from every level, satisfying the curiousity of both newcomers and old hands.

The author divides his coverage of the T2i into two parts. The first section covers what you find in the other manuals, but with more detail and guidance. The first chapter is a quick start of all the basic features of the T2i. The second chapter is a 20-page examination of each and every control, button, and dial of the T2i, showing how and when to use them. The next chapter pores over every menu entry and option, explaining in detail what happens when you select each one, and detailing why you'd want to use these settings. This first section of the book is an introduction that every T2i owner -- newbie or pro -- needs to read.

But that's just the beginning. Busch continues where the other guides leave off, with individual chapters on understanding exposure, mastering the T2i's autofocus options, and working with Live View, full HD movie-making, and other advanced techniques. He devotes many pages to an exhaustive examination of Canon's extensive line of lenses, based on his personal experience with all of them. Other chapters talk about techniques for using light and electronic flash with the T2i, choosing software, and troubleshooting your camera. This book is more than a replacement for Canon's manual: it's a photo course on using the T2i to take better pictures.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography by David D. Busch Nov 30, 2010 By SunshineAndStars
David Busch's Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D Guide to Digital SLR Photography
I got this book to help me learn about and use the features of the Canon T2i DSLR camera and have not been disappointed in it at all. I used to use a 35mm film camera until I switched to digital about 10 years ago and needed to refresh my memory on what and how to change aperture-shutter speed-iso, etc. to get good photos with this new camera. I was using basic point and shoot digital before this purchase. The book has been a great addition to the camera manual and the author expands and explains the settings so much better than the manual that came with the camera. The only criticism I might have is that I would like it to be spiral bound to lay flat. I am reading a section then laying the book down to try out the technique with my camera and the book always flops closed.

16 of 18 found the following review helpful:

Excellent for SLR Beginners - Good for Some Upgraders Dec 18, 2010 By WILLIAM MCLEAN "Just My Honest Opinion . . ."
By and large, David Busch's EOS Rebel T2i/550 Guide . . . is simply an upgrade of prior Canon Rebel books by the same author. This is not to say that it isn't excellent. Practice makes perfect. And this book is perfect for the beginner. And it is good for up-graders from lessor Rebel cameras to the T2i who want a review of earlier camera features that have been preserved. This might help some previous Rebel camera owners to better integrate all the new features of the T2i.

The book has very little to say about video. Yes, all the video functions are covered. It's just that a great deal more than functions of the YT2i camera is covered in this book. Their is lens choice, flash, print editing, etc. Much of which is rehash of earlier books by the author. Again, I have no criticism of the usefulness and accuracy of this book. I just would have liked more video instruction. I guess video deserves at least one whole book of its own. After-all, David Busch's book already has 324 pages plus Glossary and Index. There isn't room for much more.

While the book is very well written, and contains both accurate and extensive information on the T2i, I would think that long-time owners of cameras in the
Rebel series simply do not need it. The instruction manual that comes with the camera should be enough.

I write to give perspective to shoppers, not to sell the book, and not to detail what is in it. I hope this approach is beneficial. Please rate this review for usefulness. Helpful comments are also appreciated.

Thanks.

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