Book description
A friendly guide to the Olympus E-PL1, the latest trend in digital cameras
Hybrids offer the flexibility of interchangeable lenses and a large sensor in a smaller body. The Olympus E-PL1 lightens your load without sacrificing shooting power and this fun and friendly guide helps you better understand your camera's controls, features, and potential. Veteran author Julie Adair King presents you with examples on how to use your camera's main functions in order to create effective and memorable digital photos.
Explains how to work with lenses and shoot in auto mode
Covers the on-board controls and situational shooting
Addresses manipulating focus and color controls
Discusses printing, posting online, and other ways to share images
Get started shooting with Olympus E-PL1 For Dummies!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Fast Track to Super Snaps
- 1. Getting the Lay of the Land
- 2. Choosing Basic Picture Settings
- 3. Easy Breezy: Shooting in iAuto, Scene, and Movie Modes
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II. Working with Picture Files
- 4. Playback Mode: Viewing, Protecting, and Erasing Pictures (And Movies)
- 5. Downloading, Printing, and Sharing Your Photos
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III. Taking Creative Control
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6. Getting Creative with Exposure and Lighting
- 6.1. Kicking Your Camera into High Gear
- 6.2. Introducing the Exposure Trio: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO
- 6.3. Reading the Meter and Other Exposure Data
- 6.4. Choosing an Exposure Metering Mode
- 6.5. Setting ISO, f-stop, and Shutter Speed
- 6.6. Using Flash in P, A, S, and M Modes
- 6.7. Bracketing Exposure, ISO, and Flash
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7. Manipulating Focus and Color
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7.1. Understanding Focusing Basics
- 7.1.1. Choosing an AF Mode: MF, S-AF, or C-AF?
- 7.1.2. AF Area: One focus target or 11?
- 7.1.3. Matching autofocus settings to your subject
- 7.1.4. Autofocusing on stationary subjects: S-AF and Single Target
- 7.1.5. Focusing on moving subjects
- 7.1.6. Taking advantage of zoom-frame autofocus
- 7.1.7. Using manual focus
- 7.2. Manipulating Depth of Field
- 7.3. Controlling Color
- 7.4. Choosing a Color Space: sRGB versus Adobe RGB
- 7.5. Taking a Quick Look at Picture Modes
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7.1. Understanding Focusing Basics
- 8. Putting It All Together
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6. Getting Creative with Exposure and Lighting
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IV. The Part of Tens
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9. Ten Cool Creative (And Practical) Features
- 9.1. Altering Your Photos through the JPEG Edit Menu
- 9.2. Removing Red-Eye
- 9.3. Giving a Face the "Vaseline Lens" Treatment
- 9.4. Tweaking Color Saturation
- 9.5. Bringing a Subject Out of the Shadows
- 9.6. Cropping to a New Composition
- 9.7. Creating Monochrome and Sepia Tone Copies
- 9.8. Exploring the Art Filters
- 9.9. Creating a Multiple-Exposure Image
- 9.10. Adding a Voice Annotation to an Image
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10. Ten More Ways to Customize Your Camera
- 10.1. Assign New Tasks to the Fn and Movie Buttons
- 10.2. Adjust Focus and Exposure Locking
- 10.3. Use Custom Resets to Store Picture Settings
- 10.4. Create Your Own Shooting Mode
- 10.5. Create Personalized Filenames
- 10.6. Speed Up the Image Delete Process
- 10.7. Specify a Default Print Resolution
- 10.8. Check for Faulty Pixels
- 10.9. Change the Timing of the Battery Warning
- 10.10. Expand Your Lens Kit
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9. Ten Cool Creative (And Practical) Features
Product information
- Title: Olympus® PEN E-PL1 For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2010
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470879504
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