Digital SLR advice for a new owner

[yamangman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography

tbh

[Bob Crabtree]

Oooh, ain't the internet wonderful!

Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography

tbh

[Bob Crabtree]

Phew!

When I bought my first SLR camera, 25 years ago, I borrowed a bunch of different books from the library - this was pre-internet. However, I still think that might be a good strategy for you, cos you can read them away from your PC - without the hassle of printing of pages and pages of stuff you might find on the net.

What I also did was carry a notebook with me and write down the camera settings for every shot I took so that, when I got the pics back from developing, I could figure out why one shot worked and another didn't.

The beauty of digital stills cameras is that they store with each image all the information I would have written down then, plus a whole lot more - and this information is accessible when you open up the image within a half-decent image-editing program.

So, if you think you know what you're doing when you take the shot and then check this from the info that the camera records you can rapidly grow your knowledge and skills.

Bob

no bob your not underating my photographic abilities

i really need to learn a lot more about photography and spend a lot of time playing around with different things. I also need to learn how to use my camera. I guess compaired to a lot of people i haven't got a clue. my problem is i know what can be done, i just don't know how to do it.

[Funkstar]

I'm quite quickly building up a lot of links to useful sites/pages, but there is something to be said for actually reading it from a book, it's still much easier to flick through a book than scroll/click round a site

I use Picasa from Google to organise all my photos (i have everything i've ever taken, right back to my Olympus 2020z in 2000), it has a pretty good histogram and shot info overlay you can turn on and off (camera, shutter speed, focal length, 35mm equiv., f-stop and ISO)

neil

[Gunbuster]

Maybe a little basic, but I wonder if this might help http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/enjoydslr/