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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xiv
para 2, line 2

"one of the reat advantages . . .

imho, should read: "One of the great advantages . . .

I'm saying great as opposed to reat because of the extra space wher a
g could go.

 dreemer  Feb 2009
Printed Page xii
3rd paragraph

"Some images of them ... appear in chapters 8, 12 and 14."

There is no chapter 14 in the book

Note from the Author or Editor:
Should be chapters: 7, 8, 11, 12

 Anonymous  Feb 2009
Printed Page 92
3rd paragraph

Paragraph starts: "In Chapter 2, you learned about the shutter, a curtain that opens and closes in front of the shutter to expose it to the light..."

The second occurrence of "shutter" should be "sensor".

"In Chapter 2, you learned about the shutter, a curtain that opens and closes in front of the sensor to expose it to the light..."

 Matthew Hunt  Feb 2009
Safari Books Online 102
aperatures in 4th paragraph

The rightmost/last aperature should be F22, not F32. 32 is twice 16, so if you square them, 32 is 4x larger.
22 aquared is however 2x larger than 16 squared, so 2x the aperature has 2x the area.

 Anonymous  Feb 2009
Printed Page 103
On page 103, the ISO list should not include 3200

On page 103, the ISO list should not include 3200

 scottd_oreilly  Feb 2009
Printed Page 104
3rd paragraph

The list of shutter speeds is missing bold styles as alluded to in following paragraph: "I've put the traditional one-stop increments in bold."

Note from the Author or Editor:
the following numbers should be in bold: 1/15; 1/30; 1/60; 1/125

 Matthew Hunt  Feb 2009
Printed Page 155
1st paragraph, second sentence

Book reads: "The camera also shows the date and time the image was shot, your very balance setting, ...." It should say "white balance" not "very balance".

 Jason Cox  Feb 2009
Printed Page 182
Picture caption

Second sentence of caption is missing "to":

This is an example of your brain failing [to] properly interpret the visual data that your eyes have collected.

 matt_hunt  Feb 2009
Printed Page 185
2nd paragraph

Second sentence of this paragraph has gone astray.

Spend some time looking at their images with an eye toward both simply seeing how they make you feel but and figuring out what was done technically to create the image.

Suggest:

Spend some time looking at their images with an eye toward both seeing how they make you feel and figuring out what was done technically to create the image.

 matt_hunt  Feb 2009
Printed Page 224
4th paragraph, last sentence

Sentence talks about shooting RAW and references chapter 10. However, RAW is covered in chapter 11.

 Jason Cox  Feb 2009
Printed Page 229
Warning box

The which/that dilemma seems to have led to a compromise in the form of "wthat" at the start of the Waiting for Recharge warning:

"Before the flash can fire, it must charge up, a process wthat is..."

Note from the Author or Editor:

(used non-restrictive clause - which) - DCRC - S.D.

 matt_hunt  Feb 2009