Rudis - The DSLR Survival Guide: A Beginners Guide to Surviving Digital SLR Photography

The Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) world is extremely intimidating to the absolute beginner. It is a world that can be difficult to venture into without the proper knowledge to survive.

Would you go into the wilderness alone without a survival guide or at least some survival awareness? Probably not! Why would you want to do the same with DSLR photography?

Lets face it. There are a lot of elements to DSLR photography that are confusing and difficult to put together on your own. Reading your Owners Manual is very helpful, but the terms discussed within it can leave your head spinning in the direction of the purchase of a convenient, user friendly point and shoot camera.

Before you head down that road, I implore you to stick it out! There is a reason why DSLR s are bigger and more convoluted than point and shoot cameras.

They produce amazing photographs that can have your friends gawking with their tongues hanging out of their mouths. All you need is a push in the right direction. All you need is The DSLR Survival Guide!

Contained within this guide is everything you need to know to venture out into the world of DSLR photography. It is designed to breakdown the communication barrier between you and the language of your DSLR. Once that barrier has been breached surviving your camera is a piece of cake!

There are four important things you should consider & keep in mind throughout this book.

. It is designed for the BEGINNER! This book is designed for novice photographers. That is not to say an intermediate photographer may not find a trick or two in here either. However, you should keep in mind that it has been written for the DSLR photography novice.
Furthermore, I suggest that you not only take this book for face value, but that you expand your knowledge through other means. There are a lot of eBooks, written publications, blogs and websites that will also help you through your DSLR adventure. It cannot and should not stop here!

. Read your Owners Manual! After reading this book you will be sick of hearing that phrase. I reiterate it several times throughout each chapter. I do that for a reason.
There is a plethora of valuable information in your manual. I have read mine front to back at least 150 times. I take it with me wherever I take my camera to use as a quick reference guide.
On long plane rides I read my Owners Manual. It may sound strange, but this practice has broadened my horizons to the operation of my camera.

. Practice yields perfection! You will not learn this DSLR stuff overnight. You may start to click with it after reading the information in this book or other DSLR resources. However, no amount of reading can beat practical hands-on experimentation.
As you read through the chapters in this book, or any other publication for that matter, be sure to stop and refer back to your camera and Owners Manual. Experiment with the information you just read before moving on from chapter to chapter. There is a reason why practice is so critical.
The beauty of DSLR photography is that after the initial purchase of the camera and lenses, the pictures are free! You can snap as many as your heart desires without paying a dime for the pictures, until you want to print them of course. Use this to your advantage and practice, practice, practice!

. I am not an Olympus or Canon guy! You may see many references to two specific cameras in this book, the Olympus E-30 and the Canon EOS 6D. I make reference to them often because I own them. I am not a specific Canon or Olympus guy, nor do I have some hatred toward Nikon.
The content shown in this guide will give you the knowledge you need to operate any camera as long as you own the cameras manual to refer to as necessary.