EOS 300D - good idea?
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Now I know this question has probably been asked a couple of times on countless forums (not least a petrolhead's haunt like PH), but I'd like to hear this for myself.
I have a Canon EOS 300 35mm with a Tamron 28-300 lens. I also own a dinky little Toshiba touch-screen point and shoot 3.2MP digital.
I bought the SLR about a couple of years ago with the intention to dive into basic amateur photography. I've got the bibles and the manuals, and I've read the guides and the how-to tutorials. I bought the filters and the tools. I know every word in photography jargon vocabulary and I can spout off camera specifications like clockwork and explain complex acronyms.
But I can't for the life of me take good photographs. They all just turn out WRONG. Colour - wrong. Focus - wrong. Exposure - wrong. Ugh!! Well, due to the cost of film and printing I don't bracket at all. I don't keep tabs of the settings I use when I'm trying to be "creative". Half a roll becomes some two month old creative trip, and the second half gets used at some birthday party and at the end I'm left with a bunch of shots I forgotten I'd taken printed by some backstreet printing company who don't know the first thing about photo reproduction.
The allure of amateur photography has left me in the ditches - the SLR and the big lens has not been out of the bag in months. I use my dinky little Toshiba instead for all snaps now.
Cue the EOS 300D - correct me if I'm wrong, but it occured to me that this may be exactly what I need - the ability to be creative with shots for as many captures as I want and more importantly to be able to actually see what I took immediately after taking it... this sounds like utopia! Imagine, I can set a manual setting, take a picture, see the results, adjust the settings, take another picture and see the difference. This way I actually LEARN and build experience.
Ahhhhh, it just feels right... sounds like I need to flog both current cameras but retain the lens, and buy an EOS 300D body. Sorted - all camera needs - for a long time till the bug hits me again.
No questions as such, but if from my mindless rhapsody above you think that what I need is an EOS 300D, please reply and tell me why you love yours. Also, what are your thoughts on my current lens paired with the 300D? It's a Tamron 28-300 LD IF thingamajiggy (3.5 - 6.3 IIRC). Budget is limited, but if the consensus is that the lens is crap and that I really do need a bells and whistles Canon lens, then (painfully) so be it.
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I have a Canon EOS 300 35mm with a Tamron 28-300 lens. I also own a dinky little Toshiba touch-screen point and shoot 3.2MP digital.
I bought the SLR about a couple of years ago with the intention to dive into basic amateur photography. I've got the bibles and the manuals, and I've read the guides and the how-to tutorials. I bought the filters and the tools. I know every word in photography jargon vocabulary and I can spout off camera specifications like clockwork and explain complex acronyms.
But I can't for the life of me take good photographs. They all just turn out WRONG. Colour - wrong. Focus - wrong. Exposure - wrong. Ugh!! Well, due to the cost of film and printing I don't bracket at all. I don't keep tabs of the settings I use when I'm trying to be "creative". Half a roll becomes some two month old creative trip, and the second half gets used at some birthday party and at the end I'm left with a bunch of shots I forgotten I'd taken printed by some backstreet printing company who don't know the first thing about photo reproduction.
The allure of amateur photography has left me in the ditches - the SLR and the big lens has not been out of the bag in months. I use my dinky little Toshiba instead for all snaps now.
Cue the EOS 300D - correct me if I'm wrong, but it occured to me that this may be exactly what I need - the ability to be creative with shots for as many captures as I want and more importantly to be able to actually see what I took immediately after taking it... this sounds like utopia! Imagine, I can set a manual setting, take a picture, see the results, adjust the settings, take another picture and see the difference. This way I actually LEARN and build experience.
Ahhhhh, it just feels right... sounds like I need to flog both current cameras but retain the lens, and buy an EOS 300D body. Sorted - all camera needs - for a long time till the bug hits me again.
No questions as such, but if from my mindless rhapsody above you think that what I need is an EOS 300D, please reply and tell me why you love yours. Also, what are your thoughts on my current lens paired with the 300D? It's a Tamron 28-300 LD IF thingamajiggy (3.5 - 6.3 IIRC). Budget is limited, but if the consensus is that the lens is crap and that I really do need a bells and whistles Canon lens, then (painfully) so be it.
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LexSport said:Hey sweet! I never even knew there was such a thing. That is superb - so you can take a series of shots of the same subject with different settings and later on you can actually review what settings you used for each picture?
The other handy thing about it is that when you come to review the images at a later date on a computer, the Exif data is stored against the jpg image and you can see what apperture, shutter speed, ISO rating, etc. was used when taking the shot.
That sounds superb.
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