Introduction

Welcome to the Canon EOS XSi/450D Digital Field Guide. With the introduction of the XSi/450D, Canon combined the best of its recent technologies into an affordable, digital SLR that is fast, reliable, and produces outstanding image quality. This book is designed to help you master using the camera and to help you get the best images possible from it. From my experience, it's safe to say that this camera is a very capable tool that enables you to express your creative vision.

The XSi/450D features the best of Canon's latest technology that gives this camera speedy response and performance, and a suite of powerful features that give you more control during shooting. The camera is approachable with a small and lightweight footprint, and it features Live View shooting for new creative opportunities, good customizability, 14-bit conversion for fine gradation and more colors, highlight tone priority, in-camera Canon EX SpeedLite control, large-text, intuitive, full-feature menus, a personalized menu, a big, bright, wide-angle view LCD, and automatic image-sensor cleaning with the option of recording and applying Dust-Delete Data after image capture in Canon's Digital Photo Professional program.

The XSi/450D is the latest in Canon's new generation of cameras that opens the door to greater creative expression for photographers. This book is designed to help you go deep into the XSi/450D and use its full potential.

You'll find that this book is a mix of how-to-use the camera information ...

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