Comments on: Digital Photography Q&A – Book Review

By: Berndine

Berndine — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:53:27 +0000

Sweet! Did you guys see the new Nikon D60? Popular photography just ranked it one of the best prosumer dlsr cameras out there.

By: Johnny Lortz

Johnny Lortz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:20:57 +0000

In regards to the comment on digital format. RAW images can only be produced in the camera. I can not save a JPEG as a RAW file, but I can save a RAW file as a JPEG or anyother format. I wonder how many more inaccuracies can contained within this book?

By: nathan

nathan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:35:51 +0000

This is true – it’s not possible to convert a file to raw… it’s possible to edit a jpg in Adobe Camera Raw, but you’re still missing the valuable light data, which is the benefit of shooting in raw to begin with.

It seems to me that most of the information in this book could easily be found online or by reading the manual (e.g. “how to transfer images from camera to computer”).

By: Leon Barnard

Leon Barnard — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:12:07 +0000

I agree. It doesn’t sound very promising based on the examples listed. First of all, I wouldn’t recommend a one megapixel camera to anybody. They haven’t made 1MP cameras with decent lenses since the very beginning of digital photography. So any 1MP camera (if you could find one) out there is nearly guaranteed to take terrible photos.

Second, the explanation of digital noise isn’t actually helpful. Explaining it to a novice as “random movements of tiny electric charges in the camera’s circuitry” might as well be calling it fairy dust.

And lastly, as explained above, you can’t change from JPEG to RAW and it’s misleading to let someone think that they don’t need a camera that shoots RAW because they can just convert it to RAW later.

By: Dmitry Chastikov

Dmitry Chastikov — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:57:22 +0000

Of the three samples one contains an absolutely wrong answer (about saving as RAW possible), I wouldn’t recommend such a book.

By: dcclark

dcclark — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Are any of those really full answers? If that’s the full text of the answers to any one of those questions, it seems exceptionally un-useful and totally lacking detail…

By: sbunting108

sbunting108 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:03:18 +0000

It looks a good read I might purchase it!