Just ordered my Canon 10D

[chesty]

This is going to be my first DSLR. I really wanted the 1D, but couldn't swing the cash even for used. The 10D is new at 1500 dollars, has a 1.6X effective field of view (means that if you are using a 100mm lens that has a certain angle of view with a true 35mm field of view, then this would be like using a lens that has a field of view of 160mm. (not greater magnification, just a smaller field of view for the same 100mm lens.)

However, I saw some pic's taken with this camera and it has been highly refined and should be able to produce 30x40 posters with ease.

 

[Y_lifter]

Sweet... A buddy brought his Canon DSLR in a while back
and was showing off the rapid fire shot capability...

 

[chesty]

This only has 3fps and a burst of 9 frames. That is why I wanted the 1D, 8 frames a sec, burst of 21 frames. Chip is slight bigger than the 10D, but has only 4mp. But it is a ccd instead of a cmos. Image quality is pretty much the same. Mostly due to the slightly larger chip size.

Hopefully this will be good enough for airshows and races, football, etc.

My 1NRS, did 10 frames a second. But that can get really expensive in a matter of minutes.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Great camera.....you will want the Sigma 15-30mm lens for vacations. The Canon 35-350mm covers the rest. Or you could get the Canon 28-135 IS lens and 100-400 IS if you have the bucks. You don't need a tripod with IS (image stabilized) lenses.


If you never drop things, those 1GB microdrives by IBM and Iomega are just awesome. You can put your whole vacation on one of them......about 400 shots using JPEG which I recommend unless you really plan to do a 30x40 print. Shooting in RAW and converting to 16 bit TIFF yields an image with over 30MB. Some labs can't even print from a 30MB file though this is improving.

 

[chesty]

I do all of my own processing, and image printing. Right now I can go up to 24x36.

I shoot at maximum uncompressed raw format. I own nothing but Canon lens's.

Right now I have the 300mm f2.8, 70-200mm, 100mm macro f2.8, 28mm f1.8, just sold my 28-105, and have a 2x converter.

I am planning on adding the 28-135 is, had a 100-400 is wasn't fond of that one. Looking at the 35-350 for general shooting,

Probably gonna pick up the new17-40 and a 50 f1.4.

Then my ultimate lens will be the 600mm is prices are starting to get reasonable on that lens.

I figure with a 1 gig micro or the new 1gig flash, I can get with the 10D (produces about 16mb files in raw) that will give about 62 pic's. So I will need more cards or carry a lap top with me to the major events where I would shoot several hundred up to 1000 frames or more in a day.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Had it confused with their 6.3MB camera.

 

[Y_lifter]

Chesty, I hate you and your new camera

 

[chesty]

The really cool one is the 1Ds and it has the 30meg raw files.

Go here http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/EOS10D/

to confirm. I am just going off my mem.

There is an effective ppi of 3,455 which gives 6.3mp for a sensor that is 22.7mmX15.1mm. (convert to english)
According to Canon's website for the product as I listed above shows an uncompressed raw format of 18 meg and 3.2 for jpeg.

But for doing professional images for print/sale, you have to use raw for the optimum image which will allow you to go back to the original at anytime and start over.

 

[chesty]

sorry, (not!) I'll share some of my female pics with you!

 

[Pink Space Biscuit]

I figure with a 1 gig micro or the new 1gig flash, I can get with the 10D (produces about 16mb files in raw) that will give about 62 pic's. So I will need more cards or carry a lap top with me to the major events where I would shoot several hundred up to 1000 frames or more in a day.

Have you looked into the 20-30 gig digital wallets? They are cordless and you can empty the cards right onto them.

We have the D60 currently and some of the same lenses you do.

I have the brand name on the tip of my tongue now, but I just can't remember it.

Other brands (not the one I'm thinking of) are only around $150 on ebay.

 

[Testosterone boy]

A 6.3MB CMOS sensor will give you 6.3MB RAW files. It is the conversion to TIFF that bloats the files to beyond huge. I own the predecssor to this camera. Same sensor.

You will be amazed at the image quality. Comparable to medium format.....seriously.

 

[chesty]

Yeah, it is the bloat, but that is good, as it means more images on my cf card. the images that canon puts up as examples are 18meg tiffs. Canon says the raw file is 8 megs on their brochure for the 10D specifications. Just looked.

According to canon the sensor has been redesigned and they are using a new version of their imaging engine and they no longer put noise reduction on it. They say with the upgraded sensor an image enigne it is no longer required.

That would be cool if you can remember the name. Otherwise I will look like Erkel on roids with a lap tap.

 

[DcupSheepNipples]

sorry, (not!) I'll share some of my female pics with you!

Fictional or Real? You stopped the internet Dating Scene Right?

 

[Pink Space Biscuit]

Here is the link to the digital album/wallet.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nixvuedigitalalbum/

There are more on ebay if you just search for digital album or digital wallet or nixvue.

This has the price as $600, but I saw one on ebay for $152.

 

[HANSEL]

what, you couldnt afford the XL-1?

 

[chesty]

XL-1 is a video camera. Not suited at all for still photography! But it is a video camera that I am wanting for filming kids football games and vacations.

Dcup, real chickies! Yeah, I am not in no way doing the net thing again unless I get a gaurantee from god. And seeing as I don't believe in the almighty, guess I am pretty safe.

 

[chesty]

That is actually a slick little device. I may just buy one here soon!

 

[ZKaudio]

I only dream about a dSLR camera =\ My g3 will just have to suffice for now

 

[chesty]

Well, I fought it off, but I think the digital slr has come of age along with the digital darkroom. And the savings is tremendous over film, but there is still the archive problem

 

[Y_lifter]

but there is still the archive problem

IOMEGA NAS drives...
.
Up to 1.44TB of capacity
Deployment in under 15 minutes
Multiple OS file sharing.

here..

 

[chesty]

It is not so much the current storage capability it is the volatility of not just the medium, even cd's and dvd's have shelf lives and are susceptible to the elements, at some point someone may decide that the current os's and languages are no good and will at some point stop providing backward compatiblity. So, then you lose all of your stuff.

As for hard drives and tape back ups, heat, magnetic fields and bad electronics can render your stuff useless in a heart beat.

With negatives/slides, barring any misshandling/storage will be able to be viewed for forever (at least till the neg/slide is destroyed.

I just don't trust the format yet enough as I don't think it is truly stable.

Look at 8 tracks and cassettes. It is almost impossible to find a player for them, and as far as LP's, impossible.

As for cd's, things are going the way of mp3's and soon they may be obsolete, especially when affordable dvd recorders come out.

But for the time being hard drive, cd, dvd, tape, zip back up will have to do along with printing out the images on archive quality media that you truly want to save.

 

[Y_lifter]

Well, IMO, Digital volatility is wayyyy lower than standard film
media right ?
Assuming you back it up online or store it offline on CD/DVD.

Don't film negatives and prints lose something over time regardless of how they are protected ?

 

[chesty]

They can if stored improperly, the star wars films for example were not stored very well and degraded over time.

I have film over 20 years old, looks as good as new.

Reality is the electronic media is much more susceptable to degradation than cellulose.

But eventually, it should be solved. I would be more concerned with the language or programs changing over time.

When they perfect the holographic storage devices, then we will be talking.

But in my lifetime, if done properly the digital media should be adequate. I am just a die hard fan of hard copies. At work we run into that all the time. Such and Such was backed up and copied by so and so, etc. Come to find out there is no hard copy and so and so didn't back up such and such. Or the upgrade wiped out everything.