David D. Busch - Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200D Guide to Digital SLR Photography

DAVID BUSCHS

CANON EOS

REBEL SL2/200D

GUIDE TO DIGITAL SLR PHOTOGRAPHY

David D. Busch

David Buschs Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200D

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: 978-1-68198-338-7

1st Edition (1st printing, February 2018)

2018 David D. Busch

All images David D. Busch unless otherwise noted

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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 Rebel SL2/200D 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 Rangefinder, Professional Photographer , the late, lamented Popular Photography , 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.coms 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.

You dont want good pictures from your new Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200Dyou demand outstanding photos. After all, this camera is one of the most advanced entry-level cameras that Canon has ever introduced. It boasts 24 megapixels of resolution, built-in Wi-Fi, fast automatic focus, cool features like the real-time live-view preview system, full high-definition movie shooting, and a touch screen that allows you to make many settings with a tap of the LCD. Although this camera has an innovative optional Guide mode, the available built-in help isnt comprehensive. In addition, the cameras manual doesnt offer much information on photography or digital photography.

What you need is a guide that explains the purpose and function of the SL2s basic controls, how you should use them, and why . Ideally, there should be information about file formats, resolution, exposure, and 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 SL2s focus controls, 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.

Your Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200D is a significant upgrade for an entry-level camera, with 33 percent more detail-grabbing pixels, a touch screen, and Wi-Fi capabilities missing from its predecessor (the Rebel SL1/100D). Best of all, it retains the diminutive size and light weight that makes the camera a worthy alternative to mirrorless cameras. But once youve confirmed that you made a wise purchase decision, the question comes up, how do I use this thing? All those cool features can be mind-numbing to learn, if all you have as a guide is the manual furnished with the camera. Help is on the way. I sincerely believe that this book is your best bet for learning how to use your new camera, and for learning how to use it well.

Ive tried to make David Buschs Canon EOS Rebel SL2/200D Guide to Digital SLR Photography different from the other SL2 learn-up options. The roadmap sections use larger, color pictures to show you where all the buttons and dials are, and the explanations of what they do are longer and more comprehensive. Ive tried to avoid overly general advice, including the two-page checklists on how to take a sports picture or a portrait picture or a travel picture. Instead, youll find tips and techniques for using all the features of your Canon EOS Rebel SL2 to take any kind of picture you want. If you want to know where you should stand to take a picture of a quarterback dropping back to unleash a pass, there are plenty of books that will tell you that. This one concentrates on teaching you how to select the best autofocus mode, shutter speed, f/stop, or flash capability to take, say, a great sports picture under any conditions.