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| Joe S. |
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.. . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
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I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives. |
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| Brian Tung |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:41 pm |
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| RMOLLISE |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:42 pm |
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On Jan 27, 4:41 pm, "Joe S." <no_...@nowhere.net> wrote:
Quote: . . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
lenses?
I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives.
I assume the "EOS 630" is a 35mm body?
If so, your three reasons are:
NO DECENT FILM
NO DECENT FILM
NO DECENT FILM
The films available that are good for deep sky astrophotography are
few (no print films, really), and generally much poorer than what we
had, say, 10 years ago.
Also, wouldn't you like to get immediate feedback on your results
without having to wait for everybody to go to bed so you can set up
your darkroom equipment and, then, if you get punk results, for the
next New Moon?!
Uncle Rod |
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| atheist |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:47 pm |
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"Joe S." <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:Sc6dnSaxPNoTSCbYnZ2dnUVZ_rylnZ2d@comcast.com...
Quote: . . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
lenses?
I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives.
Maybe I can help. But I have to start with a small reality check by saying
that personally once I decided to give up astro-imaging, I sold my Rebel and
got a Coolpix S9 for general photogoraphy. It's a great little 6.3Mp camera
and fits in a shirt pocket. I added a 512MB memory card and a spare battery.
It holds well over 300 pictures in "normal" mode, has an optical zoom (and a
virtually useless digital zoom), and with the spare battery I can go all
day, and then some, filling up the memory card with family photos and candid
travel photos, checking the results on the spot.
Having said that, imaging with the Rebel both day and night and sending the
results to my brother, I rekindled his interest in "serious" photography. He
has Nikon stuff from his days of film, but he came over to the dark side
with a 300D of his own. He then ended up with a 20D, a 400mm IS lens for
distance imaging of birds mostly, and then he got into macrolens imaging of
bugs. Amazing stuff. He lives in the Bahamas and has a lot of imaging
opportunities. He tried astro-imaging a couple of times, but it's less work
to go out and shoot bugs and birds. He actually made some money last year
selling his images to a local calendar maker.
You are really going to love the Rebel if you are into photography. The
resolution is top notch. Not to mention the convenience of instant
processing of your results, the ability to toss the bad and keep the good,
and incurring no additional dollar cost for shooting the same scene 10 ways
to Sunday just to be sure you get at least one good image.
Learn the camera settings, and enjoy! |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:14 pm |
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Joe S. wrote:
Quote: . . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
lenses?
I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives.
I've had a Rebel XT (previous generation 8 Mpx) for a year and a half.
Grab the first three lenses out of your bag and you have three more
reasons to buy than you need. 
Really nice camera. Excellent results, easy to use, all the regular
digicam advantages, plus you have lenses that, unless I'm mistaken (Ha!
like that ever happens  ), should work on the new body.
Shawn |
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| Shawn |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:35 pm |
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Brian Tung wrote:
Quote: Shawn wrote:
Really nice camera. Excellent results, easy to use, all the regular
digicam advantages, plus you have lenses that, unless I'm mistaken (Ha!
like that ever happens ), should work on the new body.
Totally tangential, but when I saw the "Ha!" the first thing that came
to my head was, "Hunh. Hydrogen alpha?"
Ha Ha
Shawn |
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| Howard Lester |
| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:38 pm |
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"RMOLLISE" wrote
Quote: On Jan 27, 4:41 pm, "Joe S." wrote:
. . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
lenses?
I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives.
I assume the "EOS 630" is a 35mm body?
If so, your three reasons are:
NO DECENT FILM
NO DECENT FILM
NO DECENT FILM
Rod, I'd have figured you'd approve of ANYthing that had "Rebel" in it!!
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| RMOLLISE |
| Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:08 pm |
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Hi Howard:
You know me too well. ;-)
Unk Rod
On Jan 27, 7:38 pm, "Howard Lester" <heyles...@dakotacom.net> wrote:
Rod, I'd have figured you'd approve of ANYthing that had "Rebel" in
it!!
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| Paul Winalski |
| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:47 pm |
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:41:46 -0500, "Joe S." <no_one@nowhere.net>
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Quote: . . . to buy a Canon EOS Rebel Digital when I have a perfectly good EOS
Rebel X, a perfectly good EOS 630, and a bag full of genuine Canon EOS
lenses?
I need these reasons for self-defense when the UPS truck arrives.
You mean you don't want a Rebel without a cause?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
As already pointed out, you can't get decent astrophotography film
these days. That is reason enough.
-Paul W.
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