This book won’t cheat you. Unlike most of the “digital photography” books on the shelves, this one doesn’t waste half its chapters telling you how to overcome your digital camera’s short comings in Photoshop. There are a lot of great Photoshop books that can do that. No, the best part about the new breed of digital SLRs is that they have exciting new capabilities that will let you take great pictures in the camera , if you know how to use the tools at your fingertips. This book emphasizes digital photography rather than software. It shows you how to take compelling pictures and make great images using imaging technology, while taking into account the special strengths of digital SLR cameras. Whether you’re a snap-shooting tyro, or an experienced photographer moving into the digital SLR realm, you’ll find the knowledge you need here. Every word in this book was written from the viewpoint of the serious photographer.

Chapter Outline Chapter 1: Digital SLR Photography Now and in the Future This chapter focuses on the rapid convergence of conventional photography and digital photography, in terms of features, capabilities, techniques, and price considerations, and examines the changes that will be made now that digital SLRs have become affordable. It outlines the skills SLR-slinging photographers already have that are directly transferable to digital SLR photography and shows how those skills actually become enhanced given the special features of digital cameras….. n the latter half of 2003, Canon introduced the Digital Rebel, also known as the EOS 300D (everywhere but in the US and Japan), and Digital Kiss (Japan). It was a 6.3 megapixel interchangeable lens single lens reflex with most of the features that digital photographers lacking a fat wallet had been forced to live without for many years. It cost less than $1,000 with an 18- 55mm zoom lens. The unveiling of the Digital Rebel was the first skirmish in what was to become the digital SLR revolution. Nikon upped the ante early in 2004 with the Nikon D70, priced at $999 without lens or $1,299 with an 18-70mm zoom. That was several hundred dollars less than Nikon’s previous “entry-level” dSLR, the D100, which came without a lens and lacked some of the cool features found in the D70. Other vendors scrambled to jump on the bandwagon, and by late 2004, serious dSLRs like the Olympus EVOLT, Pentax *ist DS, and Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D were available in the $600-$1,500 price range. The big news wasn’t that digital SLR cameras were now available; it was that the average photographer could afford to buy one. As the cliché goes, the rest is history. It might be worthwhile to put things in perspective and see why the digital SLR revolution was such an important change. Digital SLRs for the Masses Let’s be honest. For the serious photographer, a single-lens reflex camera is the Holy Grail. Anyone who’s used a point-and-shoot camera of any sort and then graduated to an advanced non-SLR camera with extra features and more control is probably still dissatisfied and is yearning for a digital SLR.. Whether you’re shooting film or digital, if you’re serious about taking pictures, an SLR is what you really want.

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