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A Short Course in Canon PowerShot S3 IS Photography book/ebook | 
 enlarge | Author: Dennis P. Curtin
Publisher: ShortCourses.com
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 455676
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1928873723
EAN: 9781928873723
ASIN: 1928873723
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
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Product Description
This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 6 megapixel 12x zoom Canon PowerShot S3 IS. (The book also has links to 50 or so animations BUT you need broadband Internet access to play them. They will not play over a dial-up connection.) If you want to learn more about the concepts of photography, this book/ebook is for you. It discusses every camera setting on this amazing camera in a clear, well-illustrated style, but it also does much more. You'll see why and when you use specific settings, not just how to set them. You ll find that this guide helps you quickly master your camera so you ll be getting the kinds of photos you hope for. The book is printed in black & white and has a well-liked spiral binding that lets the book lie flat or be folded back. The accompanying eBook on a CD disc is a printable and searchable full-color version of the same book in Adobe's popular PDF format. It can be read on a PC or Mac using the free Acrobat Reader or any current Web browser. Just some of the things you'll learn are how to take pictures in fully automatic point and shoot mode and how your camera captures digital images; how to play back and manage your images; use buttons, dials, and menus; control image size and quality; shoot continuously, use all of the camera s exposure modes and exposure controls to get photos that show the scene exactly as it is, or as you want to interpret it; using histograms and the RAW format for the highest possible quality; how to control sharpness in your photographs; and how to use focus, depth-of-field, sharpness, softness, and blur creatively. Learn all about light and color and how to use them creatively. Understand how they change throughout the day and seasons, how they re affected by the weather, and how light s direction and quality affects highlights and shadows. See how to set white balance to capture colors the way you see them. Learn how to use lenses creatively when photographing
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 Great book if your goal is simply to take better pictures October 2, 2008
For an amateur photographer who wants to improve photo-taking skills, this book is a great buy. I had originally planned to take a photography course at a local community college, but that didn't work out. This book turned out to be quite a bit cheaper and more effective for me since it is specific to my camera. I have read several other digital photography books, but since they weren't specific to my camera, I found it hard to put those concepts into practice. This book makes it easy to apply digital photography concepts.
As many have mentioned, this is a plain 8 1/2 x 11 black & white book. I purchased the book for the content, though, and that is very good. I don't need glossy color pages to make learning easier. Even in the first chapter I learned a lot about my camera that wasn't included in the manual. There are lots of good shortcuts and tips that are not at all obvious or easily understandable from the manual. My picture taking has already improved!
This is a great book if your goal is simply to understand your camera better so you can take better pictures.
 Not what it seems August 26, 2008
This book presents it self as a self teach book, it is just another manual. I recommend not wast int you money.
like this book January 31, 2008
I fully agree with L. Satin's review. The manual that comes lwith the camera is inadequate unless you are already familiar with digital cameras.
If you own the Canon S3 IS you need this this book
No Index-What Was He Thinking? December 22, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nobody should ever write a technical manual without a thorough, alphabetical index at the end. If I want to find out about making movies with this camera, I should be able to find it in seconds by looking up the word Movie. No such luck here. The author includes what he calls an "index" on page vi, but it's actually just a table of contents, organized by page number. So, in order to answer my movie question, I have to scan through fifty entries until I come to "Capturing Movies". Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I was also irritated by the section on Image Stabilization, a feature of the camera that Canon thought important enough to include in the name of the camera (the IS part). The author tells us how to select one of the three settings for image stabilization, but gives us no clue why you would want one setting over another. I found out by reading the Canon supplied manual. Why did I buy this book again?
This manual does have some good sections and it contains many useful tips (if you can find them). However,for the whopping price of forty dollars, I would expect a much more detailed, professionally organized product than this. More of a glorified pamphlet than a user's manual.
A very good book September 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very good book that taught me a lot about not only the Powershot S3 IS but also about digital photography. Put in a very systematic way and an easy to grasp way. I love the CD and their animation web site although a bit slow.
I recommend this book highly because the original user guide only explains the functions of each option. This book however explains why and what to do with that function.
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