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David Busch's Canon EOS RP Guide to Digital Photography
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David Busch's Canon EOS RP Guide to Digital Photography

by David D. Busch
June 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
496 pages
14h 22m
English
Rocky Nook
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Troubleshooting and Prevention

One of the nice things about modern electronic cameras like the Canon EOS RP is that they have fewer mechanical moving parts to fail, so they are less likely to “wear out.” No film transport mechanism, no wind lever or motor drive, and no complicated mechanical linkages from camera to lens to physically stop down the lens aperture. Instead, tiny, reliable motors are built into each lens (and you lose the use of only that lens should something fail), and the EOS RP dispenses with one of the few major moving parts that digital SLRs have—the mirror that flips up and down with each shot not taken using live view.

Of course, the camera also has a moving shutter that can fail, but the shutter is built rugged enough ...

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ISBN: 9781681985251