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Review title: Quite a letdown
Product review: I'm not sure, but for some reason, I was expecting much more from this book. I'm not sure why, as most of the photography books that I have read weren't very good. Are there any exceptions? Sure--Barnbaum's The Art of Photography and Freeman's The Photographer's Eye, as well as (for basics) Ansel Adams' The Camera and The Print. But this book was nowhere near that level. I thought it would provide me with a much more nuanced understanding of exposure and, critically, how to manually expose images by reading light (and not using A or B modes or a camera's internal light meter). But this book's approach was much more modern, more high-tech, with almost all images captured either in an automatic mode (e.g., A or B) or with aperture or shutter speed adjusted according to the camera's internal light meter before taking a shot. This may be a useful book for a beginner, but IMO it offers very little to anyone else. Glad I only got this in digital form, so I can more quickly forget about it.
