Getting Started with the EOS 77D by Nina Bailey (reprint)

Finish: A5 spiral bound book (also available in A4)

This is a trial service until 31 December 2017.

1. A no-nonsense guide to your new camera – learn the basics of photography and find your way round your Canon EOS 77D with this 187-page book.
   
   This reference volume will be ideal if you're new to photography or are self-taught, or you originally learnt with a film camera and sometimes struggle to get the images you want with digital cameras.
   
   Nina starts off by explaining the basic terms used within photography and then looks at how to make the most of the Basic Zone – this enables you to get going with the automated modes on your 77D whilst learning about the more sophisticated and customisable features on your camera.
   
   Then, as the guide moves on, you'll learn how take images successfully with your EOS using the creative modes. You'll also find out about some of the overrides that you're most likely to use within the creative modes, what they do and how they are applied.
   
   Extending your EOS system
   
   Part of the strength of the EOS system and why DSLRs remain so popular even since the advent of smartphones is the vast lens range that's available to enhance and extend your photography. Nina takes a look at why the lenses you use play such an important part in capturing your images and altering your outlook, whilst also explaining some of the terms commonly associated with lenses.
   
   187 pages long
   
   
   Key topics
   
   • Camera sensor size and lenses
   
   • Understanding the key settings
   
   • ISO – what it sets and when to use it
   
   • About the high ISO settings and when they need to be used
   
   • Understanding what the aperture does
   
   • How the ISO, shutter speed and aperture interact
   
   • Problem exposures and why they happen
   
   • Understanding the PIC and Scene modes
   
   • Understanding the Creative modes
   
   • Understanding the versatility of the Program mode
   
   • Understanding the basic focusing set-up
   
   • Understanding the basic exposure overrides
   
   • What makes successful images
   
   • The part lenses play within photography
   
   • Understanding lenses
   
   • Understanding lens jargon
   
   • The thought process we use in photography
   
   • Understanding what light does to our images