--- product_id: 10101225 title: "The DSLR Field Guide: The essential guide to getting the most from your camera (The Field Guide Series)" price: "S/.350" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10101225-the-dslr-field-guide-the-essential-guide-to-getting-most store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # The DSLR Field Guide: The essential guide to getting the most from your camera (The Field Guide Series) **Price:** S/.350 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The DSLR Field Guide: The essential guide to getting the most from your camera (The Field Guide Series) - **How much does it cost?** S/.350 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10101225-the-dslr-field-guide-the-essential-guide-to-getting-most) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description With the advent of bigger and better cameras at increasingly reasonable prices, more and more amateurs are upgrading their equipment to fancy DSLRs. Without the proper knowledge of how to work those cameras, though, the resulting images won't be much better than what you'd get from the average point-and-shoot. Though Michael Freeman has decades of professional experience, he is also a true teacher and in this handy little guide for novice photographers, he breaks down his know-how of all things DSLR into language that even the most beginner photographer can understand. Topics covered include equipment and lenses to post-production, and everything in between. Review: Nice book - I still have no idea how do I know the size of the book it is really a great book, with great information, but way 2 small to read Review: It's a mini-encyclopedia - not a pocket guide. - This should actually be called a pocket reference - not a field guide. Field guides are "how-to" / guide books. A field guide for birds, for example, has photographs of birds, with accompanying information. Some even include photo tips. I expected this to be something akin to that. Pages of exposure guides, example photos and the like. That's not what this is. It's a mini-encyclopedia covering almost every topic you can think of for digital photography, accessories, etc. If you're a beginning-intermediate DSLR photographer, you'll get a lot from this book. Advanced users, not so much. Expert users and accomplished users will garnish little from this book. This book would have come in handy when I first started out with DSLR's. I discovered what I needed by trial and error, and wasting a lot of money. If you're new to DSLR photography or are an amateur seeking that "next level" in results, I'll highly recommend this book. Sensor cleaning, must-have accessories, color profiles, HDR, white balance, EXIF, metering - it's all here. Can't tell an EXIF from an HDR? Think a color target is something at the rifle range? Think camera noise is what occurs at a loud party or a profile is a side-shot? Not after reading this little book - Each topic provides sufficient information to tell you what it does and why you need it - usually 2-4 pages. "It" being a piece of hardware, theory, setting, software, or option. After you read a section, you'll probably think "Oh - that's what that does - I'll have to try it!" You have a DSLR - you spent a good chunk of change on it. Spend the fifteen bucks or so this book costs and read it. You'll save more than that with the information it provides. Physically the book is 4.5x6", 3/4" thick, printed on heavy, glossy paper. Nice, heavy feel to it. Not that cheap pulpish paper we're seeing more of today I can't let anything go with all glowing comments... The one criticism I have is that some of the information appears to be the result of research, not personal experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but some extra care must be exercised. One example of this is the section on "stitching images." The information is really out of date, and the panoramic example does not match the description. When the author states that cylindrical or spherical images are usually saved as QuickTime, he's dead wrong. I'm a professional panoramic / VR photographer. I have not produced a QTVR (Quick Time Virtual Reality) product in years. It's 99% Flash - that's how it's done today. QuickTime is just too slow and basically obsolete when compared to Flash panoramics. Apple stopped supporting QTVR in the last several QuickTime updates - so even if you exported the image as QTVR, nobody could view it. Even the description of the equipment is incorrect. I happen to own both the panorama heads he uses as examples. The Kaidan description is inaccurate, and the Manfrotto description vague. Manfrotto does call their head a QTVR head, but nobody calls it that. It's a milti-row pano head, or a 303SPH (SPH is for Spherical Panoramic Head.) The photo of the Kaidan shows a pano head system, including the arm and rotator. The description of the Manfrotto head as being designed to let the viewer look up and down is also incorrect. That extra "adjustment" is for multi-row panos, and while it can enable the viewer to look up and down, it's not required to do so. That's accomplished with wide angle lenses. Both the tripod heads shown can produce full spherical images. There is no description for the hardware in the upper right corner except for a make (It's a rotator base.)The example of the three images used to create the sample panorama would never work. A minimum overlap of 20%-40% between photos for the stitching software to work. Even manual alignment would fail with the example shown. He mentions overlap, but then ignores it in the photo example. That said, my critique of the panoramic section is almost as long as the section itself - but inaccurate or confusing information drives me crazy. There's also no mention of the software required for actually creating the final product - just the hardware. Without the special software (some of which is FREE, such as Microsoft ICE) you're going nowhere fast. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #7,631,489 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,240 in Photography (Books) #5,475 in Digital Photography (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.9 out of 5 stars 29 Reviews | ## Images ![The DSLR Field Guide: The essential guide to getting the most from your camera (The Field Guide Series) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61vL02fxWfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice book *by E***A on December 17, 2012* I still have no idea how do I know the size of the book it is really a great book, with great information, but way 2 small to read ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a mini-encyclopedia - not a pocket guide. *by R***W on November 29, 2010* This should actually be called a pocket reference - not a field guide. Field guides are "how-to" / guide books. A field guide for birds, for example, has photographs of birds, with accompanying information. Some even include photo tips. I expected this to be something akin to that. Pages of exposure guides, example photos and the like. That's not what this is. It's a mini-encyclopedia covering almost every topic you can think of for digital photography, accessories, etc. If you're a beginning-intermediate DSLR photographer, you'll get a lot from this book. Advanced users, not so much. Expert users and accomplished users will garnish little from this book. This book would have come in handy when I first started out with DSLR's. I discovered what I needed by trial and error, and wasting a lot of money. If you're new to DSLR photography or are an amateur seeking that "next level" in results, I'll highly recommend this book. Sensor cleaning, must-have accessories, color profiles, HDR, white balance, EXIF, metering - it's all here. Can't tell an EXIF from an HDR? Think a color target is something at the rifle range? Think camera noise is what occurs at a loud party or a profile is a side-shot? Not after reading this little book - Each topic provides sufficient information to tell you what it does and why you need it - usually 2-4 pages. "It" being a piece of hardware, theory, setting, software, or option. After you read a section, you'll probably think "Oh - that's what that does - I'll have to try it!" You have a DSLR - you spent a good chunk of change on it. Spend the fifteen bucks or so this book costs and read it. You'll save more than that with the information it provides. Physically the book is 4.5x6", 3/4" thick, printed on heavy, glossy paper. Nice, heavy feel to it. Not that cheap pulpish paper we're seeing more of today I can't let anything go with all glowing comments... The one criticism I have is that some of the information appears to be the result of research, not personal experience. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but some extra care must be exercised. One example of this is the section on "stitching images." The information is really out of date, and the panoramic example does not match the description. When the author states that cylindrical or spherical images are usually saved as QuickTime, he's dead wrong. I'm a professional panoramic / VR photographer. I have not produced a QTVR (Quick Time Virtual Reality) product in years. It's 99% Flash - that's how it's done today. QuickTime is just too slow and basically obsolete when compared to Flash panoramics. Apple stopped supporting QTVR in the last several QuickTime updates - so even if you exported the image as QTVR, nobody could view it. Even the description of the equipment is incorrect. I happen to own both the panorama heads he uses as examples. The Kaidan description is inaccurate, and the Manfrotto description vague. Manfrotto does call their head a QTVR head, but nobody calls it that. It's a milti-row pano head, or a 303SPH (SPH is for Spherical Panoramic Head.) The photo of the Kaidan shows a pano head system, including the arm and rotator. The description of the Manfrotto head as being designed to let the viewer look up and down is also incorrect. That extra "adjustment" is for multi-row panos, and while it can enable the viewer to look up and down, it's not required to do so. That's accomplished with wide angle lenses. Both the tripod heads shown can produce full spherical images. There is no description for the hardware in the upper right corner except for a make (It's a rotator base.)The example of the three images used to create the sample panorama would never work. A minimum overlap of 20%-40% between photos for the stitching software to work. Even manual alignment would fail with the example shown. He mentions overlap, but then ignores it in the photo example. That said, my critique of the panoramic section is almost as long as the section itself - but inaccurate or confusing information drives me crazy. There's also no mention of the software required for actually creating the final product - just the hardware. Without the special software (some of which is FREE, such as Microsoft ICE) you're going nowhere fast. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Lacking depth and too general *by S***N on December 6, 2010* I was really torn upon reading the DSLR Field Guide - on one hand, I was hoping that this book would be a great bridge between my general knowledge of point-and-shoot cameras and an introduction into the world of DSLRs. While I have owned my DSLR for about four years now, I haven't really delved into the bits and pieces of the photography world. So to give you an idea of my personal experience, I'm pretty much a camera-newbie... but that being said, I am pretty technologically inclined and have a pretty good background with Photoshop. This book is half about digital photography and half about image editing. Unfortunately the depth on each of these topics is incredibly shallow. In that sense, it does work as a field guide type of format. When you compare this book to the Simon & Schuster type nature field guides, it is very similar. For instance, when you look at Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals it gives you a very "wiki-like" overview of the subject. A general "what it is," "where you can find it" and "general characteristics". This book is the same way about DSLRs. What is a Lens, what types of lenses are there, what is white balance, what is lens refraction. Imagine each of these subjects as a quick one to two page summary and you get the general idea of what this book is like. So, for the newbie like me, this book is not very useful; and so that leaves us with seasoned professionals. Well, professionals will find this book pretty useless as well. Since many features on a DSLR are brand-specific (as far as where to find them in the menu and so-forth), having a book that just tells you "fix your tonal balance," probably won't be of any real help. So who is this good for? Well, the DSLR Field Guide will work as a starting point of reference for further research. You can utilize this guide more as a physical index of terms. The information which is presented is presented in a well planned manner, unfortunately the quantity and depth of that information is rather lacking. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10101225-the-dslr-field-guide-the-essential-guide-to-getting-most](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/10101225-the-dslr-field-guide-the-essential-guide-to-getting-most) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-06-18*