Recently got a new camera since my wife made me drop mine atop the Eiffel Tower A Canon Digital Rebel XT I saved a couple hundred dollars by finding a good site at www.pricegrabber.com - just don't fall for the upselling most sites try to do once you purchase their inexpensive main equipment - you can almost always buy better quality for less money for the accessories they try to upsell you on.

Who is in to digital photography? What camera do you use and what do you like about it? Do you have any favorite websites to learn from/ be inspired by?

I have been into digital photography for several years now. I had an Olympus D500. I bought it used off of my boss. It was one of the first fixed SLR cameras out. When he bought a new camera a few years back, I bought his current Olympus D620L. It's not the most advanced camera out these days, but it serves me well. It has burst mode for taking 3-5 shots in an instant. It has a real macro and all the other basic features most cameras have. It's low on pixels, 1.3 I think, but it still takes nice pictures.

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I don't have any inspirational links, sorry.

Enjoy your new toy.

I heart digital photography...

I have a Sony Digital Mactiva, it takes pictures to floppy disks as I wasn't interested in dealing with any "cards"; our next one will likely be either an SD or a DVD camera...

I have a load of pictures availalbe on Corthell.info , some examples:

the second one is the one that looks the most like you gizzy

those are great pictures, especially for the pixel amounts. I ran the wheels off a sony mavica until it eventually just started corrupting every floppy I put into it. It took thousands of pictures tho

There's a great article by Ken Rockwell at:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm

- about how pixel count really doesn't matter, we'd need 25megapixel cameras to even get close to film quality at 4x5 and 100+ mp to get close at 11x14 and larger sizes - the difference from 4-6mp or whatever isn't really enough to make a difference. Most of the pictures he has on there were taken with a 3mp camera, even award-winning ones. A lot of his medium format pictures are taken with a camera he bought for $3 or something

He has a lot of great articles on there if you are shopping for a camera:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/buydigicam.htm
or just wanting to learn how to take great pictures. Most everyone could learn a bit there and the articles read easy

I recently took a class titled "Basic Digital Photography" for my BA, and for that class I purchased a Kodak DX7630 , and it worked very well. I took over 800 pictures in 8 weeks with this camera and only had to change the battery a couple of times.

The camera is a 6.1 MP, so you do need a hefty card to get a decent amount of images. It is easy to use, has plenty of macros, and even limited Manual mode. The price wasn't too bad either for the camera.

Nice I understand Kodak is coming on strong after ignoring digital cameras for a while.

Longhorn is supposed to support RAW images built-in:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121085,00.asp

That'll make it easier to do things on the higher end with pictures. Those files can be huge tho

One reason I bought my rebel xt is that I already have a couple canon products - a powershot s50 (slowly getting worse for the wear) and a canon elura 50 or something (digital video). All 3 use the same battery and compact flash cards, so I save a bundle in not having to buy extras A friend of mine is a professional photographer too: http://www.clemwebb.com/ - he gets some great results from his canon cameras

Here's a shot I took with my Kodak for my class:

http://thegeeksinc.com/subzero/coaster.jpg

PhotoShop CS has built in Camera Raw support; previous versions have to purchase a seperate plugin (i knew i should have copied that when i worked for support)

my sister has a 5mpix kodak camera that she bought around a year ago. Works great outdoor and ok indoor and has a real optical zoom.

5mpix is great if you want to blow up the pictures you take

I think maybe I enjoy this type of photography a little too much. My most used cams are the Canon Pro 1, Canon 350XT and the Pansonic FZ5. I have a Fuji 602z Pro that gets pulled out in the nicer weather as well. Thank goodness for external hard drives!

Gizzy, I started with a Mavica FD91 because I felt the same as you did about the media.

If anyone is interested in the EXIF info for online photos there is a little program called IExif that lets you see the camera info if they haven't been renamed.
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html

FastStone Image Viewer seems like a neat little program too.
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Your Canon 350XT - is that the same as my canon digital rebel xt? It's also called the 350 in europe I believe

Yep, it is Allen. I visit a forum photo forum and it's always referred to as the 350 but you're right it's the Digital Rebel XT on this side of the pond.

Currently I have a Mostek 800, which was very good for 1998. It did it's purpose for the time, but compared to pictures nowadays it's like a 4 mb ram computer. I'm actually keeping an eye out for one to buy, that's not too expensive, probably 500$ range.

Gizzy: You have made my day with that 2nd picture and my new desktop picture.

hehe... man I have hundreds of pictures of my dog... My saying is, "if you want one great picture then you must take hundreds of crappy ones".

But there are like 20-30 great pictures of my dog on there hehe... We just got him groomed so I need to take more pictures of him (well, after i re-brush him, he had an accident last night and puked everywhere, including on himself)

Now that's an accident

I took a buncha pictures of the astros getting whupped today It woulda been a great game but for the 3rd inning when the cards got 8 runs



ah, ok. I've seen it referred to as the XT and the 350D, I thought maybe I missed an upgrade to the 350XT

BTW, for anyone interested; if you look in my dog's left eye you can see my wife taking the picture ... The dog is looking at me in it .

What do you recommend for a case? Enough size to hold multiple lens or your fave lens and the body? As big as some lens are it might require a backpack

I received similar advice in my Digital Photography class. That's why I took over 800 pictures in 8 weeks for an 18 image portfolio which was half my grade. I got an A in the class, of course Also learned a few tips in Photoshop for fixing images too

Yeh, you can never have too many photos; besides, with digital you can always delete what you don't need