New camera

[ewx]

I bought a Canon EOS350 today. Thanks for everyone's advice. I experimented with it a bit between work and karate, and more extensively after getting home, and was very rapidly convinced I was right to upgrade - it's so much easier to get good results than my old camera, and even on the lowest quality setting (I only have a 64MB flash card currently l-) the images are much sharper.

My new camera (taken with the old one)

My old camera (taken with the new one)

Comments

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

Now put a decent lens on the front of it and see the sharpness of the shots increase again. :-)

[keithlard.livejournal.com]

Yay, camera pr0n :D

Funnily enough I am finding it harder and harder to talk myself out of a D70. I've vacillated back and forth between Canon and Nikon and I always seem to find myself landing back on the Nikon side. (Except for their misguided policy of encrypting RAW files; love the camera, hate the business model.)

I suspect there's very little in it, unless you've a prior investment in either lenses or UI skills in one system or the other. But when I eventually lose the battle with my gadget-lust, we'll have to have a clash of the titans photo competition :D

[kjaneway.livejournal.com]

I spent an afternoon playing with a 300D with the standard kit lens. Then I put my 28-135 IS on the front, and apart from unbalancing the camera - I find the 300 series far too small for my hands and too light to balance any sensible glass - the image quality definitely improved.

It's very subjective, though.

I was happy with the quality from my 28-90 that had come with my 300 body, until I put the 28-135 through its paces.

And I can see the problems with my zoom, on the occasions that I use prime glass.

However, there will always be a trade off between a number of factors; price, weight and image quality, are three that spring to mind, and can, of course, be applied to both the body and the lens.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Go and buy one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4687&item=7525394495&rd=1

Best value-for-money glass you can put on that camera.

Run, don't walk. And enjoy your 350D. I've taken 18,000 images on my 300D in the last 14 months and still love it.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Shiny!

I've been pondering getting a new digicam, although I want something easier to use and not quite so battery hungry, rather than fancy-DSLR-malarky.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I hope that you enjoy the new camera, I'll certainly be interested in seeing results from it.