Canon 50D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Introduction

Walk into any bookseller, go to the photography section, and you will see countless books on the subject of photography. Look a little further and you will locate the camera-specific books. It is this divide between the camera-specific and the instructional photography books that inspired me to write this book. What I was seeing in the store was a lot of books that were just sort of missing the mark—especially when it came to using a specific brand and model of camera along with actual photographic instruction. So with that, I set about to write this book on the Canon 50D, not as a rehash of the owner’s manual but as a resource to teach photography with the wonderful technology present in the 50D. I have put together a short Q&A to ...