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This *is* the camera I am looking for...Excuse me?

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After years of drooling over this or that digital camera (SLR) I FINALLY have one of my own. Better yet, it was a present!!!!

I now have a brand, spankin’ new Canon 20D complete with vertical batter grip, extra batteries, remote switch, and a 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF card. This thing is absolutely fantastic!

I’ve had the camera for just shy of a month and have carried it with me (to the chagrin of some J) everywhere, every day with only a few exceptions. In that time I’ve shot over 1600 pictures for about 8GB of data. Phew, that’s insane! I’m going to have to score some more hard drive space.

I don’t know where to stop talking about this thing but it’s just been wonderful to have. I’ve already forgotten that I own a 35mm. But of course after years of faithful support I’m sure my antique deserves a quite retirement.

The only bad thing I’ve encountered during the past month is that my favorite image stabilizer lens is broken, auto focus has gone on vacation. L  I have to send it back to Canon to get it fixed. Of course I had to pull out another lens from the bag. I’ve been using my 50mm f/1.4 fixed lens because it’s much less conspicuous than my 100-400mm lens. Let me tell you something….this was some expensive glass when I got it several years ago (well, it probably still is). The only problem with it was that it sat in my camera bag. I could probably count how many times I used it on my two hands.

Now that I’ve been using the lens heavily for the past thirty days I don’t know if I’m going to use the 28-135 as much any more. The pictures that this camera/lens combo have been taking make me almost look like I know what I’m doing. Portraits have been absolutely stunning. They’ve come out so nice that people who generally don’t like their picture taken are posing for the camera. Absolutely fantastic!

I guess this officially starts my “digital photography” blog so if there’s topics you’d like to see let me know.

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  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2004
    And the photo's? Anywhere behind a url?
  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2004
    What software do you use to catalog your digital images?
  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2004
    Good to hear you are having fun with your camera!

    Can you tell anything more about that broken 'EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM' lens, did it have an accident, or did it just spontaneously fail? I ask because that lens happens to be the next one on my wish list (for my 300D camera).
  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2005
    To quote Mazda:  "Zoom Zoom!"
    I just ordered a 2x extender for my camera bag.  My primary...