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| Book: | Low Budget Shooting | |
| Subject: | Low Budget Shooting | |
| Date: | 2008-01-15 14:24:08 | |
| From: | Kevin Boehm | |
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Rating:
 
I was very excited when this book showed up in the mail. I like many amateur photographers don’t have the necessary funding to purchase a lot of studio equipment and much of what I have has been hand-made. I opened the book and immediately was intrigued with the photos of the gear and how professional all the setups appeared. The book has great directions with many hints on how to construct and where to buy the necessary parts for the projects. However, much of the materials that are used in construction of these items are very hard to find domestically and much has to be shipped from Europe. The added cost really doesn’t justify building the items. Our camera club built 2 items from the book and honestly by the time we found all the materials it would have only cost a few more dollars to buy one pre-made. The ideas are great and many of the products can be built using more readily available products, with slight modifications. The book offers many ideas to everyday items used in photography. On a side note there are also many places in the book that use standard measurements, some places in the book only use metric measurements, and then some places use both. One item we built used some of both but not combined so we had to do some conversion from metric to standard. Overall the book is fantastic and supplies many ideas to the everyday photographer. |
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