David Busch - David Busch’s Canon EOS 80d Guide to Digital Slr Photography

GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY

David D. Busch

David Buschs Canon EOS 80D
Guide to Digital SLR Photography
David D. Busch

Project Manager: Jenny Davidson
Series Technical Editor: Michael D. Sullivan
Layout: Bill Hartman
Cover Design: Mike Tanamachi
Indexer: Valerie Haynes Perry
Proofreader: Mike Beady

ISBN: 978-1-68198-158-1
1st Edition (1st printing, September 2016)

2016 David D. Busch

All images David D. Busch unless otherwise noted

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For Teryn and Tom

Thanks to everyone at Rocky Nook, including Scott Cowlin, managing director and publisher, for the freedom to let me explore the amazing capabilities of the Canon EOS 80D in depth. I couldnt do it without my veteran production team, including project manager, Jenny Davidson, and series technical editor, Mike Sullivan. Also thanks to Bill Hartman, layout; Valerie Hayes Perry, indexing; Mike Beady, proofreading; Mike Tanamachi, cover design; and my agent, Carole Jelen, who has the amazing ability to keep both publishers and authors happy.

With more than two million books in print, David D. Busch is the worlds #1 bestselling camera guide author, and the originator of popular series like David Buschs Pro Secrets, David Buschs Compact Field Guides, and David Buschs Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than 50 hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and other digital SLR models, including the all-time #1 bestsellers for several different cameras, additional user guides for other camera models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Fourth Edition and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Hes operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and an upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. Hes also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and other CBS publications.

When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Buschs Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. He has had as many as 18 books listed in the Top 100 of Amazon.com s Digital Photography Bestseller listsimultaneously! Buschs 200-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies.

Busch is a member of the Cleveland Photographic Society ( www.clevelandphoto.org ), which has operated continuously since 1887. Visit his website at http://www.canonguides.com .

Chapter 1
Thinking Outside of the Box

Chapter 2
Canon EOS 80D Quick Start

Chapter 3
Canon EOS 80D Roadmap

Chapter 4
Nailing the Right Exposure

Chapter 5
Mastering the Mysteries of Autofocus

Chapter 6
Live View and Movies

Chapter 7
Advanced Shooting

Chapter 8
Customizing with the Shooting and Playback Menus

Chapter 9
Customizing with the Set-up Menu and My Menu

Chapter 10
Working with Lenses

Chapter 11
Working with Electronic Flash

Chapter 12
Wireless Flash Basics

You dont want good pictures from your new Canon EOS 80Dyou demand outstanding photos. After all, this is the top-of-the-line APS-C enthusiast camera in the Canon lineup. It boasts 24 megapixels of resolution, built-in Wi-Fi, blazing-fast automatic focus, cool features like the real-time preview system called live view, full high-definition movie shooting, a touch screen that allows you to make many settings with a tap of the LCD, and an amazing wireless flash capability. But your gateway to pixel proficiency is dragged down by the slim little book included in the box as a manual. You know everything you need to know is in there, somewhere, but you dont know where to start. In addition, the camera manual doesnt offer much information on photography or digital photography. Nor are you interested in spending hours or days studying a comprehensive book on digital SLR photography that doesnt necessarily apply directly to your camera.

What you need is a guide that explains the purpose and function of the 80Ds basic controls, how you should use them, and why. Ideally, there should be information about file formats, resolution, exposure, and other special autofocus modes available, but youd prefer to read about those topics only after youve had the chance to go out and take a few hundred great pictures with your new camera. Why isnt there a book that summarizes the most important information in its first two or three chapters, with lots of illustrations showing what your results will look like when you use this setting or that?

Now there is such a book. If you want a quick introduction to the 80Ds focus controls, wireless flash synchronization options, how to choose lenses, or which exposure modes are best, this book is for you. If you cant decide on what basic settings to use with your camera because you cant figure out how changing ISO or white balance or focus defaults will affect your pictures, you need this guide.