January 2013
Beginner
208 pages
4h 15m
English
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Breaking down themysteries
Most people think of single-lens reflex cameras (SLRs) as complicated cameras that only gadget geeks and professional photographers know how to use. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was a time when using an SLR meant that you had to learn a lot of unfamiliar terms and think about so many factors that you would get very few photos at all, and frequently the pictures that you got back from the photo lab were not very good.
Fast forward twenty-five years from the first autoexposure systems to today, when we have digital SLRs that can automatically set exposure and focus, and carefully analyze the light ...