Canon’s got an impressive, hot new Pro-level digital SLR camera, and photographers will want to understand how to use every one of its up-to-the-minute functions. With Magic Lantern, they will. It goes well beyond the camera’s instruction manual, and explains how to handle all the decisive moments in shooting the action. Find out how to take advantage of the camera’s 8.2 megapixel resolution from its low-noise CMOS sensor. Learn how to set digital shooting speed records with the Mark II’s 8.5-frames-per-second drive and high-speed JPEG image buffer. (It can buffer 69 megapixels per second.) You’ll understand all the camera’s ins and outs, meet all the challenges of professional shooting, and get amazing results.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Disappointed too,
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS-1D Mark II & EOS-1Ds Mark II (Paperback)
This book offers very little about these cameras that is not in the manual. What it does offer that is not in the manual are general discussions that any photographer owning one of these cameras would know. I had hoped to get an understanding of how and when to use the features that are unigue to these cameras, a discussion of the custom functions and personal functions for example. The coverage of these subjects is not much more than a list of the functions and what their default setting are, just what's in the manual. Canon has a white paper that gives some of this information. You can find it at Photoworkshop http://photoworkshop.com/canon/EOS_Digital.pdf
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Believe the negative reviews,
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS-1D Mark II & EOS-1Ds Mark II (Paperback)
I have just bought a Canon EOS-1Ds and was interested in getting a book that would help with explaining the meaning and effect of some of the settings on the camera that are just glossed over in the Canon manual. I read the reviews here and, not unusually, found a dichotomy of views. Normally it is those who are unhappy with something that are the most vociferous, so I decided to give the book the benefit of the doubt. Mistake.
This book purports to be a manual for the the two most expensive camera bodies that Canon make. These bodies are aimed at professional or semi-professional photographers. You don't buy a $7,000 camera without already knowing what a Jpeg is, what depth of field is, what the difference is between zoom and prime lenses, and the dozens of other digital photography fundamentals that pad out this book. Padding with trivia would be bearable if the rest of the book were packed with information that you couldn't get from reading the Canon manual. It isn't. While there might be one or two tips, like using the trash button to lengthen the image review time, major opportunities to expand on the manual, such as why you would pick particular options in the Custom and Personal Functions, are largely overlooked. To make matters worse, there are typographical errors and even technical errors. Memory cards are not magnetic devices as the book claims. Believe the negative reviews on this one. Save your money and your time, ignore this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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DISSAPPOINTED IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT,
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This review is from: Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS-1D Mark II & EOS-1Ds Mark II (Paperback)
I read the previous ML books on the Digital Rebel that was reasonalbly infomative...THIS ONE IS NOT. If you have ever used an SLR camera before you will find yourself promptly throwing this book away. I have tried several times to look up functions in the ML book only to find myself looking it up in the owners manual.
This book makes the owners manual look like a work of art...and if you have a 1DM2 you know the owners manual is anything but. Bottomline: Do not waste your money. Unfortunately, the best souce of info on the details of this camera can be found on the internet at http://photoworkshop.com/canon/. I really wish there was a good manual out there that explained the functions of the 1DM2 camera and when/where they are most useful (especially the custom functions but it just doesn't exist yet and this book doesn't even come close.
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