Books on *digital* photography

<p>I'm looking for a good book on digital photography specifically and was wondering if anyone here has recommendations.<br>

I've been using a Canon AE-1 Program film camera for 10+ years and now bought a Canon 50D after the Canon G9 became a bit boring (I only had it for about a year :)), although it was a good start.<br>

Since the 50D will be my first semi-serious digital camera I'm looking for a book that would not start with the basics of photography in general but would go straight into stuff like how digital is different than film (if at all), tips and techniques specifically for digital format, etc. Does this make sense?<br>

A somewhat unrelated question: with the AE-1 Program I had a couple of prime lenses and a couple of zoom lenses but somehow never really used the zooms. Now I'm planning on buying only prime lenses for the 50D for this reason and since I really would like to get it right I'm going for the L series, 14mm, 50mm, 200mm. Everybody tells me that this is crazy, zooms are so convenient, etc, but I never really used them on film either. Among the serious digital photographers, what type of person would use zooms and who would use only primes? I'm trying to locate what type of photographer I might end up being :)</p>

<p>Book: http://www.creativedigitaldarkroom.com The Creative Digital Darkroom by Katrin Eismann & Sean Duggal</p>

<p>If you are extremely quality oriented , Canon's primes make a lot of sense.</p>

<p>I have the perfect book for you...it's called Digital Photographic Capture...It goes into detail about digital cameras their components ect.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot!</p>

<p>Hi Daniel,<br>

If you're looking for a book about the mechanisms of digital cameras and how they work, there is none better IMHO than <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Digital-Photography-Works-2nd/dp/0789736306/">How Digital Photography Works</a>, by Ron White. The diagrams and level of detail are extremely good and it cuts through a lot of the argumentative nonsense you will find in places like DP Review.</p>

<p>If you think you might get into any type of studio lighting or artificial lighting scenarios with your photography as you begin your work, the best book I've seen on lighting is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Light-Science-Introduction-Photographic-Lighting/dp/0240808193/">Light Science & Magic</a> (Hunter, Biver, Fuqua). There is no competition for this particular book IMHO. I learn something new from that book every time I look through it. No piece of knowledge or equipment is more important than being able to understand and work with the lighting options you have. :)</p>

<p>Another good book option (on the image processing side) might be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Adobe-Photoshop-Photographers/dp/0321604512/">Real World Photoshop CS4 for Photographers</a> (Chavez, Blatner), though this focuses more on the post-production aspects rather than the actual photographing of subjects. As a bit of a shameless plug, I have produced a video-based Photoshop training product with the help of designProVideo.com, also aimed at covering the core aspects of the <a href="http://www.designprovideo.com/tutorial/photoshopcs4105">Photoshop workflow</a> for digital photographers. I note this only because some people learn best by reading and others by seeing on screen. Hopefully this is OK to post here... and hopefully some or all of this is a help to you.</p>

<p>Cheers,<br>

Dan Moughamian<br>

Photographer, Author, Instructor</p>

<p>The first Digital Photography book that i found... I fell in love with!<br>

How to Do Everything With Digital Photography By David Huss</p>