David Busch's Compact Field Guide for the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D (David Busch's Digital Photography Guides) - Softcover

Just the essentials for your EOS Rebel T2i
When a command card doesn't provide enough information, and a small camera guide has too much padding, pull this Compact Field Guide for your Canon T2i out of your camera bag and get the advice and recommendations you need quickly.

I don't believe you can have too much of a good thing, but readers who have been using my 400-page in-depth guide to master their Canon T2i have asked me to distill the most essential information into a portable field guide for on-the-go reference.  In the approximately 150 pages of this lay-flat, spiral-bound book, you'll find in-depth descriptions of every control, menu option, and capability of the Canon T2i.  Each choice is accompanied by my recommendations and a description of when you should or should not use a particular setting.  There are seven no-nonsense chapters:

1. Quick Setup Guide.  You -- or someone you loan your T2i to -- can set up the key exposure, autofocus, and other settings in minutes with the step-by-step instructions in this chapter.
2. Streetsmart Canon T2i Roadmap.  Can't recall what a particular button or dial does, or don't remember how to access bracketing or another feature you seldom use?  This chapter has photos of every control and a description of how to use it.
3. Shooting and Playback Menu Settings. Command cards and cheat sheets provide a menu listing and a recap of the Shooting and Playback options.  This chapter explains how to use them, too.
4. Setup and My Menu Settings. You may not use these menus quite as often, which is all the more reason to carry along my instructions on how to use them.
5. Using Flash. Reference guide to working with the T2i's internal flash, and Canon's external units.
6. Shooting Movies.  I've managed to squeeze in instructions on using the T2i's movie-making capabilities, along with tips on shooting better movies in the field.
7. Shooting Tips. Pages and pages of tables listing Shooting Menu and Custom Setting Menu recommendations for a variety of situations, such as stage performances, long exposures, landscapes, and portraits.

I know many Canon T2i owners are buying both my "big book" and this Compact Field Guide, so they're equipped with the information they need whether at home or on-the-go.

With more than a million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling digital camera guide author, and the originator of popular digital photography series like David Busch's Pro Secrets and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides. He has written more than a dozen hugely successful guidebooks for Canon and Canon digital SLR models, as well as many popular books devoted to dSLRs, including Mastering Digital SLR Photography, Second Edition, and Digital SLR Pro Secrets. As a roving photojournalist for more than twenty years, he illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He's operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photos and articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He has also reviewed dozens of digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper, and his advice has been featured in National Public Radio's "All Tech Considered." When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, debuting at the #1 and #2 slots were Busch's Digital Photography All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he's had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Bestseller list--simultaneously! Busch's 120-plus other books published since 1983 include bestsellers like David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Digital SLR Lenses. Visit his website at http://www.dslrguides.com.