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new camera
Feb. 17th, 2007 01:09 pmI got a new camera for the trip. A digital SLR. Canon Rebel XTi. Now I can take pictures in RAW. And I need a RAW editor. I'll be able to make my pictures look better than I can with jpegs and Photoshop. Unfortunately, with ten megapixels, in RAW mode I can only get about 50 pics on a 1 Gig card. Setting it for meduim size jpeg, I can get about 250. If I do that, it kind of diminishes the value of being able to take pics in RAW. And I'd still need several more cards for a weeklong trip. I guess I'll have to go buy a laptop, to offload the pics to. ;-)
I got a polarizer for the lens. I was surprised that the pictures come out dimmer. That's strange because the light meter is through-the-lens.
I learned that lenses on digital cameras have different effective focal lengths than they do on film cameras. My old camera had a 28-80mm. This one has an 18-55mm lens, but both lenses perform the same on their cameras. But I can take the 28-80 off of my film camera and put it on the digital, and it performs like a 45-130mm lens. So that's nice.
I got a polarizer for the lens. I was surprised that the pictures come out dimmer. That's strange because the light meter is through-the-lens.
I learned that lenses on digital cameras have different effective focal lengths than they do on film cameras. My old camera had a 28-80mm. This one has an 18-55mm lens, but both lenses perform the same on their cameras. But I can take the 28-80 off of my film camera and put it on the digital, and it performs like a 45-130mm lens. So that's nice.
