Bj”Rn Forsstr”M said to Bob Gearhart at 08-10-04  09:20
 Subject: EOS 300D
 
 Hi Bj™Rn

 BG>  It's a very nice camera.  Looking at it online I made that judgment.

 BF> It is.

 I recent;y wanted to update my coolpix990 with a newer larger pixel
 camera and considered the Canon 10D upon which your 300D is based for
 some time.  I have a Canon AE1 and the lens could have used them with
 the 10D I understand.  It is excellent glass and I spent some time in
 confusion.

 Instead I stayed with Nikon and another Coolpix, the 8700, The computer
 with lens concept has completely won me over.
 
 BG>  Remember it's the person holding the camera that makes nice pictures,
 BG>  not the camera.  But if the camera works better, maybe the person
 BG>  holding the camera can spend more time on what is going to be in the
 BG>  pictures and less on how the mechanicals work eh!  

 BF> Sure.
 
 BF> OK, but when I hardly see any difference from that and a pic taken in
 BF> for example
 BF> P mode. What's the use of having it?
 
 BG>  I don't have the camera you do, but on my camera in a manual setting, I
 BG>  can cancel the flash and other magical operations, while I still use
 BG>  the P program mode for setting exposure, white balance and focus.  None
 BG> of
 BG>  those choices are available in the full automatic mode.  There you take
 BG>  what the camera wants to use.

 BF> After further studying of the manual, you are right.

 The 8700 has a bright red light it beams out for low or no light
 focusing.  The design is so poor, the thing comes on in bright daylight
 even.  I keep the camera set in a manual mode, with everything the same
 as the automatic mode except for the pop up flash unit disabled. (The
 red light source.)

 BF> What I even have discovred is that taking pics in bl/w and sepia aso
 BF> doesn't exist any more but I guess that's what Photoshop is for.

 Yep, you can make B&W prints from your printer, but unlike color prints
 where the lifetime of the print from a computer printer is as long as a
 regular chemically produced print in a dark room, the same can't be
 said for black and white prints.   The metallic silver print will last
 for hundreds of years with care, the print from the computer will
 still be gone in a relative short length of time.

 BG>  We can't make the same o you use.  :-)

 BF> You can't even prounounce it.  :-)

 Most likely not, I can do Spanish and Italian, but the French lose me
 and further north I don't understand anything you guys are saying.  My
 paternal grandmother was German and they used it around home, but that
 was long ago and I never picked up on it.  During the war, they were
 bad guys and not to be learned from.  How things change.  :-)

 BF> I can even do † and „. Try to prounounce that.

 Chuckle, I can do them also, but not from my keyboard, alt 153 gets me
 an ™ for which I don't have the slightest idea how it sounds.

 BF> And if you didn't know, Bj”rn means Bear (what a name to have, eh)

 Good name. Especially if your a large man.
 
 Say! Sometimes back we discussed DVD creation with your MyDVD program.
 You were unable to set chapter points in it.  If your still using the
 program, maybe you are eligible for the Sonic DVDiT Ver 5 upgrade.
 I did the upgrade and it is still not that great, but many steps beyond
 MyDVD.  I find it easier to use and much less picky than DVD-Lab, the
 full featured program I use normally.


 Bob fer

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