Excellent and easy - reading
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Jim's book is easy to understand and explains in a user-friendly way how to obtain the perfect exposed picture in many extreme situations. I've put into practice all the teaching and it works 100% of the time, and it's really easy to understand and apply.
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Not so very useful
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I am sorry but I hardly write reviews and the one or two I have done are because a product is so good.
However I really cannot say that about this book. I have read it TWICE now, so it's not just a first impression.
I feel, rightly or wrongly, that the subject is milked to death, and that the lessons learned could have been confined to one chapter. To draw all of this out to an entire book was simply milking the subject. The first part of each chapter contains all you need to know, then various pages of examples follow, but there's very little value in them and almost nothing new. In short everything that this book is telling you could have filled 8 pages. I seriously question the value of page after page of examples, unless you take the book with you and marry up each situation then what good is the sheer number of examples here? You ain't going to remember 10% of them.
It's also totally about film. Slide film allowed for virtually no mistakes with expouser. Black and white print film did, and digital gives you even more room. The value of the book here then comes into question, as pros and casual users alike are now turning to digital. Some agencies won't even touch film unless it's large format now.
So sorry, but I regard this of very limited use.
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A plesant change from the normal photography book
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This book was recommended by a freind, as I was getting mixed results with my camera's metering.
I've learned so much from this book as it is written in a straight talking manner. I find the mix of photos used and short explanations far easier to take in than a book with lots and lots of text. I don't want to become an egg head with memorised formulas ect.......I just want to be taught how best to use my cameras functions and settings to get the best quality photos.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of photography and books like this enable you to improve with out the feeling that you are back at school and studying for an exam.
This book is a refreshing change from many others I've read.
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Perfect book about exposure
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This book starts about when the inbuilt camera meters fails and when it works. Jim Zuckerman give the reader good tools of handling different lighting situations. I find the book very useful and can highly recommend it.
Robert Hammar
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Perfect exposure perfectly explained
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I received this book yesterday and read it through in one sitting. The photographs are spectacular and each is accompanied with text to explain the why and how each shot was metered. The author focuses on the use of a handheld incident/spotmeter and having read this book for the second time again today I understand even more as to why he shows a strong preference for using one. Just shooting scenes from my balcony this morning using the knowledge I've picked up, and using the TTL meter in my DSLR, I can see quite a difference already in the exposures I've been making using the spotmeter as opposed to the matrix meter exposures suggested by the camera. This is an excellent book with clear, detailed explanations and stunning photographs. Highly recommended.
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