Using Your Camera: A Basic Guide to 35mm Photography

This is THE best beginner book on photography I've yet seen! Although written in the pre-digital era, the basics have not changed. Accompanied with full-color photos, George Schaub describes in clear and concise prose the basics regarding light & F-stops, aperture & shutter speed, exposure overides, bracketing, depth-of-field, flash photography etc. HIGHLY recommended for the beginning film or digital photographer!

This is a great book for basic explanations and techniques. It provides a concise, good working knowledge of camera functions, the basics of composition, exposure, low light exposures and flash photography. I have been around cameras and photography for over 35 years, so some of it was redundant to me, but if I were still a beginner, I would think this an excellent guide to start my learning. As someone else mentioned, each point has a photograph to illustrate it, to reinforce the learning. This book would be on my "highly recommended" list for all photography novices!

I consider myself an advanced beginner, and own several books on photography. This, however, is the one I turn to time and again for explanations and techniques. It is concise but more than adequate for a good working knowledge of modern camera functions, composition, exposure, exposure compensation, etc. With help for special circumstances such as existing light, night exposures, pushing film, and flash photography, it is an excellent and beautifully visual guide to beginning photography. Each point has a photograph to illustrate it. Highly recommended. Hope he writes another for more experienced shooters!

I would consider this book as right starting point for any beginner who wants to take good photographs. The focus of the book is on making the reader comfortable in the world of photography. Starting from meaning of many technical terms, this book goes into illustrating important techniques of taking good photographs. The hundred around example photographs (taken by George and his wife) in the book cover the different situations that a start-up photographer would face and look for some guidelines. I should congratulate the writer on not going into most difficult techniques of photography as the book is meant for beginners. One thing I expected from this book and did not get was a step-by-step guideline about how a beginner should try to expertise different skills the writer has illustrated.