Digital Basics

[mgp1969]

Can anyone recommend a beginner's guide (book, website, whatever)? Have a film based SLR and am thinking of getting a digital one also, but have no idea about even the basics of digital photography - am thinking of a Canon 350D/20D on the basis I could use my existing Canon and Sigma lenses (is this correct)?

Thanks

[simpo two]

mgp1969 said:

Can anyone recommend a beginner's guide (book, website, whatever)? Have a film based SLR and am thinking of getting a digital one also, but have no idea about even the basics of digital photography - am thinking of a Canon 350D/20D on the basis I could use my existing Canon and Sigma lenses (is this correct)? Thanks

If you're up to speed with a film SLR you'll adapt to a DSLR without a book - well, just the manual!

Yes, you can use your existing lenses but they will seem 60% longer than before, so you may need to get a new wide angle.

What you will need is a decent computer, and ideally PhotoShop, to make the most of your images. Not so much 'plug and play' as 'poke and discover'.

Enjoy

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simpo two said:

Not so much 'plug and play' as 'poke and discover'. Enjoy

Now who's sex life does that sound like

[beano500]

If you go the Photoshop route, there's always the Dummies series. In fact they probably have a Dummies Digital Photography book, come to think of it that might be somewhere to start.

When you start poking Photoshop I can recommend Martin Evening's "Adobe Photoshop for Photographers"

Of the magazines out there on the shelves, Amateur Pornographer.....*ahem*...sorry, that should read Photographer is better than it ever used to be and I quite like the approach that Photography Monthly takes.

Link at:

www.photographymonthly.com/

Of the website's that are interesting, I quite like the following...

http://luminous-landscape.com/
www.naturfotograf.com/index2.html
www.cleanimages.com/default.asp#

...and for inspiration, you musn't miss out on:

www.stevecarter.com/newgallery/p2.htm


There, that should keep you busy for ten minutes......

[mgp1969]

Cheers for the responses - will check out those websites.