September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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ANATOMY OF THE REBEL XSI
MORE FULL AUTO PRACTICE
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VisibleDust website, at www.visibledust.com, includes a full selection of sensor
cleaning products and accessories.
WARNING: Sensor Cleaning
Never spray compressed air into the sensor chamber! Compressed air uses
a liquid propellant that can sometimes come out of the nozzle. If this gets
on your sensor, you’ll have a much worse sensor problem. Use only cleaning
materials designed for sensor cleaning, or have your camera professionally
cleaned.
More Full Auto Practice
In this chapter, we’ve covered a lot of technical and practical details that are es-
sential to understand if you want to be able to use your camera quickly and ef-
fectively. Often, quick use of the camera is what makes the difference between
capturing a “decisive moment” and getting a boring shot.
In the next chapter, we’re going to start getting more technical about basic pho-
tographic theory, but before we go there, you might want to take some time to
do a little more practice in Full Auto mode. Shooting in Full Auto does not mean
you’re a photo wimp. e Rebel XSi in Full Auto mode is a very powerful instru-
ment, and having the camera decide technical details for you can free you up
to focus on composition and content. While we’ll be discussing composition in
more detail in Chapter 8, here are some exercises to try right now, before moving ...
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