Olympus PEN E-PL1 For Dummies

356 Pages·2010·25.8 MB·English

by  Julie Adair King

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settings, switch lenses, and shoot like the pros. This friendly, speed, and ISO O l y ®
full-color guide helps you get great photos whether you’re • How to use “almost automatic” pp
shooting a kids’ birthday party, capturing HD movies, or creating
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• Go live — explore the Live Guide feature and make creative in ART mode ®®

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• Tips for shooting memorable
• Make friends with your lens — get acquainted with the kit lens landscapes EE
and learn your way around the Micro Four Thirds lens system • Steps for capturing portraits, NN
close-ups, and action shots
• Stop and go action — learn to switch instantly from shooting stills

to movies and back again EE
• Secrets for overriding auto-
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• Save, print, and share — protect images you want, delete those
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you don’t, transfer photos to your PC, and prepare them for
• Cool ways to control color
e-mail or printing LL
• How to make audio notes on 11
• Take control — explore manual settings and master exposure,
still images
color, and depth of field
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• Understand and use all the camera’s
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• Expand your creativity with
special-purpose features
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Olympus® PEN E-PL1
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by Julie Adair King
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Olympus® PEN E-PL1 For Dummies®
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About the Author
Julie Adair King is the author of many books about digital photography
and imaging, including the best-selling Digital Photography For Dummies. Her
most recent titles include a series of For Dummies guides to popular digital
SLR cameras, including the Canon EOS Rebel T2i/550D, T1i/500D, XSi/450D,
XS/1000D, and XTi/400D, and Nikon D5000, D3000, D300s, D90, D60, and D40/
D40x. Other works include Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers,
Digital Photo Projects For Dummies, Julie King’s Everyday Photoshop For
Photographers, Julie King’s Everyday Photoshop Elements, and Shoot Like a
Pro!: Digital Photography Techniques. When not writing, King teaches digital
photography at such locations as the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. A
graduate of Purdue University, she resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Author’s Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful for the chance to work once again with the wonderful
publishing team at John Wiley and Sons. Kim Darosett, Steve Hayes,
Jen Riggs, and Katie Crocker are just some of the talented editors and
designers who helped make this book possible.
Special thanks also go to Chuck Pace, who brought a wealth of photogra-
phy knowledge (and sense of humor) to his technical review of my work.
And fi nally, I am indebted to Sally Smith Clemens and Richard Pelkowski at
Olympus, who so graciously contributed hour upon hour of expertise and
support to this project.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Fast Track to Super Snaps .................................. 5
Chapter 1: Getting the Lay of the Land ...........................................................................7
Chapter 2: Choosing Basic Picture Settings .................................................................43
Chapter 3: Easy Breezy: Shooting in iAuto, Scene, and Movie Modes ......................73
Part II: Working with Picture Files ............................ 103
Chapter 4: Playback Mode: Viewing, Protecting, and Erasing Pictures
(And Movies) ...............................................................................................................105
Chapter 5: Downloading, Printing, and Sharing Your Photos ..................................139
Part III: Taking Creative Control ............................... 167
Chapter 6: Getting Creative with Exposure and Lighting .........................................169
Chapter 7: Manipulating Focus and Color ..................................................................213
Chapter 8: Putting It All Together ................................................................................261
Part IV: The Part of Tens .......................................... 277
Chapter 9: Ten Cool Creative (And Practical) Features............................................279
Chapter 10: Ten More Ways to Customize Your Camera .........................................303
Index ...................................................................... 319
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