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Summary: A perfect, picturesque reference!
Review: After recently making a significant investment in an older SLR Nikon, I quickly realized that I knew nothing about picture taking. With vacation rounding the corner, I knew that I needed more reference material than came with the camera to learn some basic photography terms and techniques so that I could capture the memories of our vacation. The "Kodak Guide to 35 Mm Photography: Techniques for Better Pictures" was the best reference material I could have chosen.The material is well organized making it easy for readers to reference without confusion. Basic material such as f-stops, shutter speed, and depth of field are clearly explained for any beginner to understand covering both manual and automatic cameras without confusing readers of either the manual or auto. variety. Accompanying the written reference material are illustrated photos which provide an excellent visual reference. One of the best parts about this book is that you don't have to memorize it (or even read it) cover to cover before you start to see a dramatic improvement in your photographs. Having only begun to master the basics, I see a dramatic improvement with each roll of film that I shoot. This book allows me to reference problems I may encounter while shooting (ie - overexposure) and how to correct those problems. I have found that while not a "pocket guide", this book is trim enough to bring along in the camera bag at any time. I am confident that this is the book I will reference for some time as a beginning photographer and also the book I will turn to as I begin to develop more creativity in my photography.
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Summary: Kodak's Guide to 35mm photography
Review: An excellent book for any photographer. a great choice for those just getting started in photograhy. Goes into detail about Lenses, Flash photography, action pictures and light just to name a few. The beginner should not be without this book
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Summary: Just the right book for me!
Review: First off, I bought this book after reading the review written by Mr. John H. Henderson, from Melbourne, Fl. I was exactly in the same situation he described about his friend. I gave it a try and I was not dissapointed. The book is just right for me as a beginner looking for the most appropriate foundation in Photography before becoming a more serious shutterbug. I needed to take good pics and avoid the Auto-Exposure traps and its unpredictable results. I wanted to have control over what I want from my camera and avoid my 35mm camera to end its life in the darkest corner of my room and replaced by a Point and Shoot. I bought this book to avoid that. Now I'm not afraid when pulling out my camera to shoot. The camera is now my allied, not my Pandora's box, and "Burning films" NOW makes sense to me. Shooting is now giving me satisfactions, not blurring frustations. This book will jump start yourself in photography. It will do for you the same it did for me. It is written in a "digestible" language, with a very practical approach. It is simple, well organized, generously illustrated and quite straight-forward. It will teach you how to get the pics you want, as a beginner, and it will set grounds for you to grow further in your hobby. Even though this book is not intended for the "Pros" and the Amateurs of the world, trust me, they probably have it always handy to brush up! . A word of caution: buy it before it goes out of print ! Good stuff doesn't last too long. Thank you, Mr. Henderson, for your advise about this book!
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Summary: I wish I had it when I first began photography
Review: I am a rather serious photography hobbyist and semi-pro, shooting 35mm, medium format and large format, so I have little to gain from an introductory text like this one, but was searching for a book to give a friend who was having questions about working her 35mm SLR. I discovered a myriad of books purporting to be the one complete guide to photography. Some were as fun as, and laid out like, a dictionary - a disjointed collection of topics. Some were too technical. Some were too fluffy, and were little more than a collection of the author's photographs. I was looking for a book that was complete, fun, and just technical enough. After all, to get good photographs with an adjustable camera, you must know something about f-stops, shutter speeds, depth-of-field, etc. When I picked up this book, I knew that I found exactly what I was looking for. The book is well-written, and is profusely illustrated with color photos that not only show the results of photographic techniques, but also illustrate the techniques themselves, such as loading the camera. I found the book so engaging that I had a difficult time putting it down even though there was nothing new to me that I hadn't glean over years of reading about, and practicing, photography. It was fun to just look at the pictures. Had I had this book when I began, I would have known much more much sooner. I think my friend, Cathy, will enjoy it. She can read the parts right now that she needs to accomplish her purposes - proper exposure and using a flash - but will probably look through the rest of the book just to see the photos. If there were one book I would get as someone taking up photography as a hobby, this would be it. From there, I would get "The Camera" and "The Print" by Ansel Adams, and if you want to complete the collection or do your own printing, "The Print." Someone looking for even more technical information and/or interested in large format photography, would be interested in "View Camera Technique" by Leslie Stroebel.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I purchased the Kodak Guide To 35mm Photography for a friend, and being a
professional photographer, I thought that the National Geographic Photography Field
Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures would be a perfect source of advanced
knowledge for me...but I was wrong. The National Geographic book is good, but the
Kodak Guide is much better. Both books start with the basics, but Kodak fills its book
with much more information and far more (and usually better) photographs. This is a great book for amateurs and professionals alike. I've just sent the NG book back, and I'll soon order the Kodak Guide for myself!
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Summary: Every question you have about 35mm photography answered
Review: I thought I knew my way around a 35mm camera but after reading this book I found out how wrong I was. This is the best thing to happen to my photographic technique. All my pictures come out great now instead of just a couple and now I realize why certain pictures were coming out the way they were. Buy this book now if you are at all serious about your art.
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Summary: A must have book for photography lovers
Review: I was getting an average of 20 decent quality pictures developed from a 36 shot roll of film. I always used program modes (shutter priority, aperture priority, and all automatic). I have a Nikon N70 and have owned it for 2 years now. After going halfway through the book and applying the techniques and rules of thumb in it I generated 34 good pics from a 36 shot roll of film -- using full manual settings. Need I say more?
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Summary: Excellent from niveces to not-totally-experts
Review: I've bougth this book after several years of point-and-shot photographing, and one year of intensive use of my Nikon SLR. I've found that the text are clear, explains the different situations in-depth enough to make the reader to understand the factors that are important. Also greatly covers the sight that may fool most of the automatic cameras. If you are about to buy only one book, buy this, and you won't regret.
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Summary: Great for beginners and intermediate photographers!
Review: If you are a beginner or intermediate photographer, this book will tell you what you need to know to get the results you want in your photography. It covers the topics of film, exposure, and flash photography, from the basics to intermediate technique. It also has chapters that give advice on specific types of photography: action, existing-light, and close-up. There are also chapters on lenses and filters and a short chapter on digital manipulation. Most of the information in this book would be appropriate for digital as well as film photography. If you just bought your first SLR, or if you would like to better understand what your camera can do, this is the perfect book for you. It also makes a great gift for the young or relatively inexperienced photographer. Advanced amateurs may find it useful as a refresher or reference to keep for those occasions when you forget some technique that you haven't used in a while. But the book's intended audience is novice to intermediate photographers, and it does a very good job of addressing the needs of those photographers.
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Summary: THE BEST first book on photography
Review: Kodak has published little books on various aspects of photography for fifty years. I learned the basics of composition, depth of field, and most other fundamentals from those little books. This bigger book combines all those little books into a real introduction to photography. Lots of good photo examples (with Kodak film type and lens information, so that you know how the photo was created.) accompany an easy-to-understand text on the how and why of composition, exposure, lenses, flash, and so on. If you just bought a new 35mm or high-end digital camera, then read your camera manual and this book, both cover to cover, and that's all you'll need for the first year or 2,400 pictures, whichever comes first!
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