2AcknowledgementsThis eBook is dedicated to all my friends and subscribers on YouTube®who have given me great feedback on the video tutorials that I haveproduced for this camera, and many others. Your encouragement andconstructive comments have helped to develop the idea to create thisbook and other tutorial material. A special thanks to those who helped topreview, submitted typos and gave guidance in the format of the book.About The AuthorWith more than 40 years experience in thephotographic industry, teaching photography at alocal adult education college and as a productspecialist and European trainer with Kodak Limited Ihave been fortunate to learn many aspects ofphotography and photographic science.I have been passionate about my own photographyfor many years striving always to achieve the higheststandards at photographic club level and with myown private images.I have evolved with this as a hobby, developing my own black and whiteand transparency material and then migrating to digital photography asthe first of the digital cameras were commercially available. I wasfortunate to see the first hybrid camera with the Eastman Kodak sensor ina Nikon F3 body, the Kodak DCS100 digital professional camera with amassive 1.3 mega-pixel KAF1300 sensor. This camera had a CCD backwhere the traditional film plane would be and a tethering cable to adisplay and digital storage unit. How technology has developed since1991.By way of my YouTube® channel www.youtube.com/user/ghough12 andthis book I hope to be to pass on some of this information and hopefullyencourage others to take more rewarding images with their FZ200camera.Graham Houghton , Manchester,December 2013
