Start by ignoring everything

Look, here’s a drawing of your camera:

OK, so your camera doesn’t look much like this one, but they both work in exactly the same way. Yours just looks more complicated.

A lot of new stuff has been added to cameras over the years. Some of these additions are quite handy, but a lot of them aren’t. This book will teach you about the handy ones – the ones that actually work and give you all the creative freedom you need to take great photographs.

This isn’t a textbook and I’m not going to use graphs and camera-club jargon to explain the fundamentals of photography. You don’t need to know all that. In fact, when you’re ...

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