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The new camera

August 24th, 2005 - 9:38pm

Well I’ve got it home and played with it a bit. I am a bit disappointed with the kit lens’ zoom capabilities and not-as-large-as-I’d-like aperture. However, I was planning on buying others anyway, so it’s just more of an incentive to get them sooner rather than later.

The 1GB Ultra II CompactFlash card is quite fast enough, though. I tested it out by taking as many photos as I could at random stuff, it met the test without any major issues. While it may not be good enough for sports photography, it seems fine for me.

The higher ISO speeds seem to be very useful thus far, and — without having thorougly inspected the shots — there doesn’t appear to be much distracting noise. Very useful for shots with less light!

Autofocus is quite good, only a few times it’s failed me. Although I like manual focus, the automatic focus does a pretty good job of picking up the same things I’m trying to focus on.

While it’s fine for taking photos, RAW mode is a bit of a hassle with taking photos, as is getting the photos from the camera without using Canon’s software (I prefer to plug the camera in, and have it copy all the photos across to a folder with today’s date), but I’ll get used to it.

Overall I’m glad I bought the camera, but know I won’t see it’s full potential until I buy a slightly better lens (and I don’t know if the either the Sigma 18-125mm or 18-200mm I was planning on buying will suffice, due to their slower apertures when zoomed — fine in daylight though, I’d say) and also get used to the camera, which I know will take a bit of doing.

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