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

 BG>  Instead I stayed with Nikon and another Coolpix, the 8700, The computer
 BG>  with lens concept has completely won me over.

This I don't fully understand.


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

Ok. I have found out that it's about the same with 300D in automatic mode.
300D doesn't have a red light when focusing in low or no light, it burns off a
couple of flashes instead.

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

Yes. Gearhart sounds German.

  BG>  Chuckle, I can do them also, but not from my keyboard, alt 153 gets me
 BG>  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)

 BG>  Good name. Especially if your a large man.

Only in the forward direction.

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

My graphic board that used MyDVD broke and the new used Studio8 but I haven't
used that yet.
Now I'm waiting for, think it was Panasonic, to release their new DVD burner with a
hard drive and two TV-tuners and then I can copy my VHS video to the hard drive
and then burn a DVD. This should come out now in August.
For normal editing of video from the camera I use Studio 8 and then burn it to a DVD.

//Bj”rn

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