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(More customer reviews)Busch has once again raised the bar for Canon EOS 60D guidebooks with this massive and comprehensive manual for Canon's down-sized, re-booted advanced amateur camera model. It offers information and tips you simply won't find in the condensed books and OEM manual re-hashes. He's maintained the clear and accessible descriptions of features from his earlier 50D book, and supplemented them with an expansive treatment of this new camera's innovative features. For example, the 60D has a new built-in wireless flash controller, and Busch devotes an entire chapter to that. Movie-making gets expanded coverage here, with an entire chapter of step-by-step instructions and tips. Autofocus is glossed over in many guides, but Busch has a full chapter explaining its intricacies, and how to nail perfect focus every time.
The book is a photography course, too, with an introduction to both basic and advanced concepts, all geared towards use of the 60D, so that readers can master picture-taking as they master their cameras. Busch recognizes that each camera is unique, and although the explanations of basic concepts like exposure, shutter speeds, and apertures are similar across all models in all his books, the Canon 60D deserves detailed coverage. In this book, he manages to do that while still tailoring his explanations to suit beginners who have purchased a Canon 60D as their first D-SLR, intermediate photographers looking to improve their skills, and advanced shooters who want a fast way to learn the camera and gain some tips.
The book is well-organized so that any photographer of any level can quickly locate what they need to know. For example, there's a "Getting Started" chapter, which, the author acknowledges, will likely be read only after the reader has already taken a few hundred photos. It provides the kind of pre-flight checklist you wish you had when you bought your first digital SLR. Next comes a Quick Start chapter that leads you through the essential features of the camera, with just the basics and none of the mind-numbing detail, allowing you to immediately go out and shoot your best pictures, ever. The third chapter is a "roadmap" guide that carefully explains each of the controls on the camera, with many photos and the right amount of information. The thick, but small-format book that comes with the 60D has many cross-references that send you darting around. Busch gives you the nitty gritty here.
The author does devote several long chapters to explaining every menu option and, more importantly, why you should use each setting. Most other guides just list the menu item choices, and don't give you detailed examples of when to use a particular setting. The other books simply don't have room for this kind of depth. Highly recommended.
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