On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:07:28 +0100, Hecate wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:36:17 +1000, Brian
wrote:
I might take a pic in tungsten light with my white balance manually set to daylight, then apply a simulated 80B filter and see how it turns out. I will let you know. Shame that my image will be on a toy digital camera. Still using film for real images and a silly little Kodak for quick snaps for emailing to family, etc. I am looking at various digital cameras at the moment. Thinking of what you are currently using, with you prefering the lighter body, etc., have you seen the Canon EOS 350D? That looks like it may be perfect for you 🙂
All the best, Brian.
Just waiting for it to arrive in the mail 🙂
I looked at it closely and, apart from the fact that the 20D is larger and has a mag alloy body and a few minor tweaks, the 350D is just as good. And while it’s lighter, the build quality is far better than the 300D. The only negatives I found when trying one out was that if you don’t have small hands you’ll probably want to buy the BG-E3 grip, and the screen on the back is a little on the small side. Other than that I think it’s an absolute bargain as my mail order camera store sold it for £150 off list price. 🙂
Plus, the box contains a set of vouchers which means I can get another £100 off my recently acquired 300mm f4 L. 🙂
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Hecate – The Real One
Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…
Interesting, I decided to throw out the extra money on the 20D for the following differences…
20D
5 fps for up to 23 frames
350D
3 fps for up to 14 frames
20D
9 AF focal points
350D
7 AF focal points
20D
offers up to 3200 ISO exposure sensitivity
350D
offers up to 1600 ISO exposure sensitivity
20D
30 – 1/8000 second shutter speeds
350D
30 – 1/4000 second shutter speeds
20D
flash sync speed 1/250
350D
flash sync speed 1/200
(means highest shutter speed that can be used with flash as a fill flash)
20D
Larger Body size for bigger hands
20D
Magnesium Alloy body for clumsy people like me 🙂
(actually the higher sync speed is the main reason, the shutter speed is a nice bonus, the others were not really important to me)
the rest of this is boring dribble you can feel free to skip (just me feeling sorry for myself)
for a $300 price difference on a camera not likely to drop below $400 anytime in the next 5 or so years, I’d rather spend the extra and not be put in a
situation where I "NEED" that extra 1/50 of a second on my shutter speed, or my camera got knocked out of my hands by someone bumping into me and the body
cracked or dented in a way that hampers its functionality.
I am just getting into professional photography and have my first job at a professional studio, but I have a degree in photography and have been doing it and
loving it for 10 years now. The studio I work at has several 35mm and 4×5 format cameras I can use for any job, but only has 1 digital and its a 5.7 megapixel
at the owner almost always needs. So I am opting for something that I hope will benefit me and my needs better (I understand everyone has different needs and
bases their decisions on them).
In 1997 I bought a Sony DSC-600 (I think that was the model) for $1850, and another $1000 worth of accessories. IT was the hottest, newest thing available and
I bought it the day it was released on the market. A 1.3 megapixel digital SLR, the first consumer market model. It had a Carl Zeiss (sp?) lens and all kinds
of "neat" functions (at least I thought so back then, now every digital camera can do everything that one could). And I loved it, but many were the times when
I had wished I had waited 2 months and gotten the 3.2 megapixel model that came out, as while I took some great photos the 6 years I used that camera, I only
printed 1 and there was good reason for it (as anyone who has ever seen a 1.3 megapixel image will know). So I spent close to $3000 on an expensive toy that
taught me much and improved my "eye" and skill, but ruined my chances at owning something more "useful" as I could not afford another digital camera after that
one. so anyway, I am very careful (even with the little things) these days when making an expensive purchase, to ensure I will not regret spending a little
more to get something more useful.