Photographer's Guide to the Fujifilm X10

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Photographer's Guide to the Fujifilm X10 Details

This book, a complete guide to the operation and features of the Fujifilm X10 digital camera, is a follow-up to the author’s earlier guides to advanced compact digital cameras, including the Fujifilm FinePix X100, as well as models by Leica, Panasonic, Canon, and Nikon. The new book explains all operations, features, menus, and controls of the Fujifilm X10 camera in clear language, providing guidance not only about how to accomplish things with the camera, but when and why to use certain features. The book does not assume any specialized knowledge by the reader, but explains topics such as shooting modes, autofocus, manual focus, depth of field, aperture priority, shutter priority, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, white balance, ISO, and macro photography. The book shows how to take advantage of the camera’s unique CMOS sensor with Fujifilm’s EXR technology. This special sensor enables the camera to be configured for high resolution, high sensitivity in dim lighting, or high dynamic range, depending on the lighting conditions the photographer is faced with. The book also provides guidance about the many the X10’s many other advanced settings, including adjustments for Color, Sharpness, Highlight Tone, Shadow Tone, and numerous others.The guide’s more than 200 photographs, almost all in full color when viewed on color devices, provide illustrations of the camera’s controls and menus, and include examples of the various types of photographs that can be taken using the many creative settings of the camera, including the Film Simulation settings, which let the photographer alter the color processing and other aspects of images; various menu options such as Dynamic Range and Intelligent Digital Zoom; and the camera’s strong set of features for continuous shooting.In addition, the book goes beyond everyday photography with introductions to more advanced topics such as infrared photography, astrophotography, digiscoping, street photography, and creating 3D (three-dimensional) images that can be viewed with conventional red and blue 3D glasses.The book also includes a full discussion of the video recording abilities of the Fujifilm X10, which can capture high-definition (HD) video with stereo sound and can take silent slow-motion movies to enable studies of sports and other actions.In three appendices, the book provides information about accessories available for the camera, including cases, filter adapters, and external flash units; sets forth a list of useful web sites and other resources for further information; and includes a section with helpful “quick tips” that give particular insights into how to take advantage of the camera’s features in the most efficient ways possible.The book includes a detailed Table of Contents and a full Index, so the reader can quickly find needed information about any particular feature or aspect of the camera. In the Kindle version, the Table of Contents and Index are interactive, so the reader can click on a page reference to navigate to the desired topic instantly.

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Thank you Alexander S. White!!! This is the second of Mr. White's wonderful Photographer Guides that I've purchased, and they are truly indispensable. I acquired both of them in the last couple of months, but wish I'd known about them much earlier. I bought the Fujifilm X-30 over a year ago, and printed up the Fuji 277 page manual in an effort to learn how to fully use my X-30. Despite all those pages (lots of wasted space with very modest content), that manual was only mildly useful at best. I figured there was enough similarity between the X10 (this book) and my X-30, so I got this book in the hopes it would be useful with my later model Fuji. It is greatly helpful both as a learning tool and a reference (instead of that blasted manual), so I'm glad I purchased it. Mr. White has an impressive ability to explain and illustrate the various functions on this, and quite a few other, digital cameras in his numerous other books. I came out of 35+ years of using film cameras, and while some of the concepts translate to the digital world, I was left more than a little lost in the increasingly complex digital camera version of photography. I never totally understood what new new digital cameras could actually do, and I didn't entirely understand their various limitations. Therefore, I tended to get stuck with using Auto settings because when difficult photo situations arose, I couldn't adequately dip into the other possibilities contained within my digital cameras. I might read about a function in the camera manual, but then forget about it later, mostly because I didn't fully understand what was going on. White's books explain it all in an extremely user friendly manner. His books are for "the rest of us" without being overly simplistic. His information is clear, concise, well explained and illustrated, and as a result, I finally understand how my digital cameras work and what they can do, and this fuller understanding has made me able to finally get the most out of my cameras. Prior to this book, I bought his book for my Canon S-95, which I've had since 2010 and which I still couldn't properly use (beyond Auto). Given the pathetic state of the camera "manual" you get from the camera manufacturers these days, I find Mr. White's books to be an absolute necessity in understanding my cameras. Highly highly recommended to everyone. I'm contemplating getting yet another camera (Panasonic this time), and I guarantee I will be purchasing Mr. White's book for that one too.

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