Getting to know your digital camera by Victoria Dye

This book by Victoria Dye is easy on the eyes. Putting her photography workshop tutorials into this manual gives you relevant information about improving your photographing skills quickly. The tutorial takes you through the basic anatomy of cameras step by step from the types of digital cameras to shooting modes, explains what they do and how your photograph is affected by it.

If you are wondering what that ISO button does and how you can use it to get the photo you want  you will find out very quickly from this book. You will learn the photography available to you with any DSLR camera from this book in less than 90 pages. Its quick, cheap (US 4.99) and hands on. In the first pages you will learn about the different types of digital cameras and their differences, however the author is biased towards single lens reflex (SLR) cameras so if you are happy with your phone camera or compact camera this is not the book for you. The book also doesn’t get into the philosophy of photography such as ‘the rule of thirds’ or framing a photograph but if you own a DSLR and are looking for a basic, quick and cheap but substantive guide this is a good book to have. It also makes for a good gift along with a DSLR to inspire a budding photographer in the family perhaps.