Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 775 EAN: 9780789736307 ISBN: 0789736306 Label: Que Manufacturer: Que Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: March 05, 2007 Publisher: Que Sales Rank: 467027 Studio: Que
A full-color, illustrated adventure into the high-tech wonders inside your digital camera by the author/illustrator team that created the bestselling How Computers Work.
With clear and simple explanations that say, “You, too, can understand this,” and brilliant, full-color illustrations, How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition, gives you detailed information on the hidden workings of digital cameras, professional picture-taking techniques, and even photo-editing software. Some of the topics covered in this groundbreaking book include:
· How Digital Viewfinders Frame Your Pictures
· How Twin Lens Cameras and Tilt-and-Shift Lenses Change the Rules
· How Cameras Focus on Moving Targets
· How Exposure Systems Balance Aperture and Shutter
· How Electronic Flashes Create a Burst of Light
· How Studio Lighting Creates a Perfect Lighting Environment
· How Color Calibration Makes What You See on the Screen Match What You See on Paper
· How Your Camera’s Microprocessor Manipulates Images
· How Photoshop Expands a Photographer’s Artistry
Introduction
Part 1: Getting to Know Digital Cameras
Chapter 1 The Workings of a Digital Camera
Chapter 2 Inside Digital Video Cameras
Part 2: How Digital Cameras Capture Images
Chapter 3 How Lenses Work
Chapter 4 How Light Plays Tricks on Perception
Chapter 5 How Digital Exposure Sifts, Measures, and Slices Light
Chapter 6 How Technology Lets There Be Light
Chapter 7 How Light Becomes Data
Chapter 8 How New Tech Changes Photography
Part 3: How the Digital Darkroom Works
Chapter 9 How Software Changes Pixels by the Numbers
Chapter 10 How Digital Retouching Rescues Family Heirlooms
Chapter 11 How the Digital Darkroom Makes Good Photos into Great Fantasies
Part 4: How Digital Print-Making Works
Chapter 12 How Computers and Printers Create Photographs
Chapter 13 How Photo-Quality Printers Work
Glossary
Index
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Rating: - One for your library
So you may know how to make a great shot, but actually understand how your camera works makes you get more out of what you are trying to achieve. Sure it is important to understand about F-Stop and all those cary over terms from the analogue world of 35 mm photography, but the internal workings of the digital camera are different from the old 35's and are worth a look.
The book is broken out into four section. While the fourth section covering ink-jet printers, monitors etc under the heading of "How Digital Print-Making Works" , is under explored and frankly, seems a peripheral subject and not really paid much more than lip service in terms of content. The other three sections are on track and full of great visuals. The sections are 1. Getting to Know Digital Camera, 2. How Digital Cameras
Capture Images, and 3. How the Digital Darkroom Works. Each section has chapters which are backed up by Downs' ... Read More
Rating: - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
This is one of those books which promises much on the surface but if you scratch the surface a little bit, you will soon realise that it's really incomplete, and worse, misleading.
Errors and irrelevant or outdated info litter the pages of this book.
Examples:
1. Autofocus technology section: active autofocus is pretty much not in use with compact digital cameras these days. Passive contrast detect autofocus is pretty much the norm with such cameras. So this section is pretty much outdated at best, and at worse, utterly worthless in describing how your everyday point and shoot digital of today works (and mind you, this is the 2007 Second Edition I am talking about). Hell, the majority of compact digital cameras have been using contrast detect AF for at least the last 5 years!!!!! Worse yet: the author then erroneously describes DSLRs as using contrast detect AF when he should be ... Read More
Rating: - An opposing opinion
After reading the enthusiastic reviews of this book, and always interested in technology, I decided to purchase it. I was extremely disappointed. Some of the plus factors that are mentioned in the other reviews are correct, great big color pictures, easy to read articles, etc. Although even that is not an unmixed blessing, White gives the same amount of space (two pages) to every subject, regardless of its complexity. But that's not my main objection, rather, it's the astonishing amount of errors in this book! It's difficult to read a page without seeing an error. These range the gamet, from pointers to the pictures pointing to the wrong object, up to completely incorrect concepts. While some are minor, others show a complete lack of knowledge by the author. Pages 32 and 33, for instance, are, as Wolfgang Pauli said about another subject, "not even wrong!" And there are errors on pages 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 also. Many ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful cutaway drawings
If you enjoy cutaway drawings this is a book to get. It is absolutely full of extremely well done cutaway drawings that do a great job of explaining the concepts being presented. While the text accompanying the drawings is quite good, you could get 90% of the information presented by only looking at the illustrations. It is also a great book to pick up and open to any arbitrary page to browse. You will inevitably learn something you didn't know on almost every page.
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