Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

PSA Journal, Feb, 2007 by Stanley B. Ashbrook

Digital Photography: The Missing Manual

By Chris Grover and Barbara Brundage, Introduction by David Pogue, weekly tech columnist for the New York Times Published by O'Reilly Introduction by David Pogue Soft cover, 7 x 9, 422 pages, $29.99 US, $38.99 CAN ISBN: 0-596-00841-4, Rating *, and **

Becoming well known is the appeal of digital photography, the facts that it's instantly gratifying, endlessly creative, and easy and fast to share digital pictures with others. But digital photography can be overwhelming, since not everyone is familiar and comfortable with concepts like JPEG compression, EXIF tags, file format compatibility, image resolutions, FTP clients, and so on.

Digital Photography: The Missing Manual will help cut through all the technical jargon and show not only how to use a digital camera but also how to take better pictures, to move the photos onto a Windows-based PC, to edit and print them, and to share them. Digital Photography: The Missing Manual is a complete course in digital photography including: how to choose the right digital camera or understand and operate the camera you already own; tips from photography pros for taking better, more memorable photos in every situation as well as tips for storing and organizing photos. Also included are simple and creative ways to edit photos.

Each book listed below is rated for Beginners (*)

Intermediate (**)