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Adobe Camera Raw for Digital Photographers Only: stating the obvious

Recently walking through the Borders bookstore at a mall, I saw a book called "Adobe Camera Raw for Digital Photographers Only". I thought to myself that the title of this book is somewhat peculiar. Adobe Camera Raw allows Photoshop to read your camera raw files directly, without having to use the proprietary raw converter supplied with your camera. Because raw image format is the actual data from an image-capture sensor, only digital cameras can capture raw files. Therefore, only digital photographers have to deal with raw files. So, although the title of this book is technically correct, by stating "Digital Photographers", the author is stating the obvious. By using the word ''only", the author is emphasizing the obvious. Did the author catch my attention? Absolutely. Will I buy the book? I don't know; I am afraid the author will state more obvious observations throughout the book.

Chieh Cheng
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:16:26 -0800

That "for Digital Photographers only" smells like marketing to me. Sure enough, a quick search on Amazon reveals another four books by Wiley "for Digital Photographers only." It's a little annoying, but the books might be good anyway.

Michael
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:11:27 -0800

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