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Digital Photography For Dummies, 9th Edition
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Digital Photography For Dummies, 9th Edition

by Julie Adair King
February 2020
Beginner
368 pages
11h 21m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Starting Out Right: Setup Do’s and Don’ts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting your camera ready to go

Bullet Choosing a focusing mode

Bullet Taking your pick of exposure modes

Bullet Looking at shutter-release options

Bullet Selecting the right resolution (pixel count)

Bullet Comparing file types: JPEG, Raw, and more

Bullet Getting advice on a few more basic setup options

Digital camera manufacturers try to provide you with a good “out-of-box experience” — industry lingo that means the camera’s initial settings are selected to make it as easy as possible for you to take a great picture with your first press of the shutter button. But these default settings are a one-size-fits-all compromise that don’t serve every photographic situation best.

This chapter alerts you to the most important settings that you may want to modify according ...

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