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Flying Rat - 09 Mar 2007 22:11 GMT

right you lot...pay attention at the back

I'm after a rec for a website that is a clear, easy to follow
introduction to DSLR usage. I've been asked to point someone to such a
site, and Google is worse than useless.

All that abomination does is throw up pages of advertising.

So does anyone have a 'pet' site or one they would personally point
someone towards? A clue is....someone who has bought their first DSLR
and would now like to know how to use it...

Thanks in advance

FR

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Alan Clifford - 10 Mar 2007 00:14 GMT

FR> So does anyone have a 'pet' site or one they would personally point
FR> someone towards? A clue is....someone who has bought their first DSLR
FR> and would now like to know how to use it...
FR>

There are interesting articles on
http://www.megapixel.net/html/articles.php

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Flying Rat - 10 Mar 2007 13:47 GMT

> FR> So does anyone have a 'pet' site or one they would personally point
> FR> someone towards? A clue is....someone who has bought their first DSLR
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> There are interesting articles on
> http://www.megapixel.net/html/articles.php

Thank you kindly squire. I'll pass that along

FR

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monopix - 10 Mar 2007 09:46 GMT

> ....someone who has bought their first DSLR
> and would now like to know how to use it...

Instead of Googling for DSLR, or whatever, try searching for PHOTOGRAPHY.

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monopix - 10 Mar 2007 09:48 GMT

>> ....someone who has bought their first DSLR
>> and would now like to know how to use it...
>
> Instead of Googling for DSLR, or whatever, try searching for PHOTOGRAPHY.

... and once they've learnt about photography, tell them to RTFM to find out
how to use the camera they've obviously bought in error.

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Geoff Berrow - 10 Mar 2007 10:08 GMT

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>> Instead of Googling for DSLR, or whatever, try searching for PHOTOGRAPHY.
>
>... and once they've learnt about photography, tell them to RTFM to find out
>how to use the camera they've obviously bought in error.

ROFL

Blunt, but true.

Anyone who buys a DSLR thinking that it will automatically mean they
take better photographs is mistaken. On the contrary, the extra
complexity means that they provide more ways to cock it up.

If you really want to learn how to use a DSLR you need to learn the
basics. Measuring light, the relationship between film speed (still
relevant, even with a digital) shutter speed and aperture and perhaps
most important, composition. Only then can you make intelligent use of
the facilities a DSLR has to offer.

I got my DSLR some ten years after I last handled a SLR. I didn't
really start getting good results until I applied the things I had
learned with the SLR.

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