Thanks for your great weekly reviews Misha! :-) Best Regards Tom

A nooooo my dear Tedz. Maybe i'll give you some church towers first for letting it start slowly :-))

OMG ... and i wanted to post a shot of the Olympia Tower tomorrow ... no no ... won't do that. rotfl

Congrats Francesc. There are a lot of good photographers over here and i don't want to say who's better or inferior .. but you're among the best of the very best and so, this honour is very well deserved! I'm looking forward to your next pics very much! Thank you is what i want to say to you! :-)

Thanks for the info .. :)

sigh .. nothing clickable over here .. have to try from at home too ...

Thank you too!! :) After two weeks (with not to heavy usage) i'm not disappointed at all. Looking forward to next summer!

Congrats to your new toy! :-) Looking forward to what you'll do with her .. and don't get bitten by that poor dog, getting angry gg

That pics were underexposed a lot more as the canon would do it (10D or 300D) worst case. To get them that dark, you'll need to shoot it in manual-mode or make some serious mistakes ... but if you'll find a camera out there, never ever underexposing (and not having them to bright too), do not hesitate to buy her :)). Of course i'm happy with my camera (wouldn't have bought her in any other case) and of course i'll gladly admit, that there are a lot of other cams out there, that are way better than mine and/or fitting better to the needs of other people. The only thing that makes me a little angry is, if people out there tell things that are just plainly wrong or taken out of context (not refering to you dear Brenda!). Just once again: where's the problem with a little underexposing? We don't talk of almost black pics as your one was. And, to be true: if you don't want to do postwork, by all means stay with an analog camera. Shooting in raw-mode (which all pros do - not talking of me g) won't get you a single pic that's usable without postwork. Good luck on your search and i really hope you'll find what suits you best. hugz, Tom :-)

Sorry for not really reading all that ranting about the 300D indoors. There'll always be people having to rant as there'll always be people (just as an example) loving the Sony F828 for being the best one can ever buy (without ever having that cam in their hands or at least reading a review of someone, having it). I especially love the talk of people declaring any lens below 1000 as "shards" .. i almost think, they love to hear themselfes talk? They shouldn't talk that much and take pictures instead ...

That's the reason, why i'm starting to ignore every review in the web .. lot's of blahblah one can believe .. or not. No way to know, whom one can trust. I'd prefer to ask Donald over here .. sure i can trust him! :)

What's true: the 300D does underexpose if she doesn't get the perfect exposure. That's quite fine with me for i am able to repair an underexposed pic really easily via computer whilst an overexposed pic ist lost .. nothing to repair. Also, that does apply only in 0.1% of my pics .. at a maximum. 90% are done in manual mode where i myself am the one who has done something wrong if the exposure isn't perfect, 9.9% the camera getting it quite perfect and 0.1% that may be underexposed for someone. Not to me, but one can discuss that. So it's just you who has to decide. As the 10D uses almost the same electronics, that problem (if it would exist) would be hers too.

Sorry for not being able to agree this time dear Brenda. *hugz, Tom :)

Donald: i'd like to know of that problems too ;-). Brenda quoted that review saying this, my answer was "no". I don't have any problems indoors. Sorry for not saying that more clearly. Mea culpa .. Also thank you for the clarification about that sync-socket ;) Best Regards Tom

Thank you dear Brenda! This one really explains a lot. Nice view too :-)

Yep, have fun and don't forget to be nice to your wife :-))

As you stated, the 300D would have problems with flash and indoors .. just have to answer "no". Don't have any problems indoors. It may be a drawback, that the 300D in her original state cannot use a whole studio-flash-equpiment (some matter of triggering or the like .. don't understand that totally for i don't need it) but if your not doing indoor-(wedding-)portraits, that doesn't matter at all to you. Also, there'll surely be an adapter soon that solves this problem. But would anyone use the 300D as a studio-cam? Don't think so ... As Donald said, the only differences are some manual modes, the 300D doesn't offer (your decision if that matters to you or not), slightly faster picture-series on the 10D, the use of a prisma-mirror instead of pentaprisma and a magnesium body on the 10D compared to plastic on the 300D. Therefore the 10D is heavier but may last longer .. but i don't have a bad feeling in my 300D too and she's 500 Euro lower and comes with a not to bad lens. There even are some minor advantages of the 300D to her bigger sister: the built-in flash is higher as in the 10D, so there's less red eyes with using that flash. If you like to hear, i'll look at home for the rest of that article. Can't say anything to that upcoming Minolta ... but if they really put that A1 anti-shake into her (and it works as great as canons IS already does), it could get a killer-cam! Maybe waiting on this one and taking a close look is the best you can do right now. But as Canon (and Nikon) already have a lot of experience with D-SLRs, i'd be careful too .. But i think, Gerhard said what is most important: it is you, taking the pictures, not the camera. If you are good, it doesn't really matter if it's a canon, nikon, olympus or whatever. If you don't know your business, it doesn't matter too. Some tech-freaks keep loosing that out of sight .. ;)

If you ask for other D-SLRs: there's one system by Olympus and Sigma is releasing an other one. I don't know of any Minolta D-SLR, sorry!

Michelle said almost all that's really important. I'd just like to add, that you shouldn't compare that Nikon D100 with the Canon 300D. She costs almost double, so this ain't fair. Compare her to the 10D if you wish or wait on the smaller Nikon which is said to be on market early next year. The A1 is a great cam, even having this anti-shake built-in (IS in some canon lenses is not really cheap - but well worth it!), but i'd never trade her for a SLR again. Just my two ct. :)