Good introduction to photography

I was visiting Amsterdam earlier this week, and had some spare time to visit a local bookstore named Waterstone's.

From there, I picked John Hedgecoe's book The New Manual of Photography. This books is from 2002, so it is pretty recent and contains information about digital cameras as well.

I've only read about 60 pages of the book, but it looks like an excellent introduction to photography.

The book is very practical in my opinion, and even though it doesn't concentrate much on each topic (only page or two), it's a good round-trip to the world of photography.

Seems like good value for 45 €, though Amazon sells it a lot cheaper.