I think the price goes up to $299 shortly. I am very happy with it also, tho wish it were a little bit faster. But that's what updates are for :)

I found that it completely remade my workflow and made everything so much easier to keep track of for me. Very nice.

-Melen

Wow, that is just amazing. I'm not sure if it's depressing or inspiring!

-Melen

Now, as fate would have it, we got to the second waterfall and a very nasty, large thunderstorm suddenly came booming in! This was once again a waterfall after that, but we were too busy trying to get out of the preserve because we had no rain gear. The camera survived. :)

-Melen

Hi striving,

I've owned a Rebel XT since August of 2006 and I have to say I've been very happy with it! Prior to the XT I used Canon point and shoots (the A80 was the last I had). I do mostly nature type shots. Not much macro, but that's something I do want to do.

I originally went to buy a Nikon D50 (the D70 was slightly out of my range). After handling them both I felt like the Canon felt a little better in my hand. Of course, this will vary between people and hand sizes. :)

The "kit lens" isn't the best, but I think you'll be suprised to find out it's not quite as horrible as alot of people make it out to be. Course, compared to L glass it's absolute crap, but for beginning photographers I think it's great. I used it for awhile until I knew enough where I wanted a sharper shot.

Take a look at Robert Mekis' gallery on deviantart (http://robertmekis.deviantart.com/). He primarily uses the Digital Rebel and the Digital Rebel XT, with the kit lens, to do his panoramas. I think it's a glowing representation of what the kit can do.

-Melen

If I had a MAC I'd definately be using Aperture. On a PC now tho :)

-Melen

Hi All,

Since I posted my original message, I went and grabbed the latest Beta, and then watched some of the video tutorials. Then a lightbulb went on! Since writing the original message, I've imported about half of my photos into Lightroom, properly keyworded, and I have to say (despite the speed issue in the beta) that I'm hooked. It's amazing what a couple of days can do :)

I'll be buying the final now. It looks like version 1.0 has a couple of other cool features, judging from the video tutorials on adobe's site (such as "stacks", which shows you 1 thumbnail for different versions of a picture, which you can then expand to see all versions, very neat).

-Melen

This might be just pre-order, I'm not sure.

-Melen

I'm sooo gonna build that! :) Thanks for the link!

Quote - I taught him everything he knows... ;^P

How much do you charge?!

I've tried drop shots so many times, and always get so frustrated ::chuckle::

This was the first time using a monopod and it was real grey out with a semi-longish shutter. Out of fucus.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1351607

:)

Maybe it's just me, but I find all the "protections" (short of watermarking) to be somewhat funny. All the attempts to use flash and such... Easiest method for ripping:

Take a screen shot, paste it into a Photoshop (or paint, or whatever) document. Unless it's watermarked, voila.

Edit: I stumbled acrossed this because I was trying to think of how I would protect my own images, once I'm good enough to need protecting, NOT because I'm a ripper. Just thought I'd clarify ::chuckle::

Personally I guess posting a smallish, watermarked, lower quality image is probably the best bet.

Quote - Oh, and not to be cruel.... If you are doing art only to satisfy yourself, why are you posting it online?

Easy to answer: hopefully those viewing my stuff will have pointers on how I can improve. Sure, I could (and do) rely on reading material (especially for photography), but sometimes it's a person with experience that can point out some small detail that can help me produce something more pleasing (to myself). The reverse works as well... Sometimes having reinforcement that I "got it right" lets me know I'm on the right path.

-Melen