Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:42
Truckster, I agree with you twice in the one message !!
I hate reading the manual too, but when it's for a toy like the 300D, I would do it just to find out all the cool stuff it can do.
With cards, you need to find a balance between size and size. Meaning, yep you need more than 1, but there is no point having them that small that you have to change cards every second photo.
THE MOST important thing with CF cards is speed, then speed, then speed. There are a lot of cards out there that claim to be fast, but are really on 8x or thereabouts. Definately pay the bucks and get a fast card as there is nothing more frustrating than waiting 5 seconds for the camera to save the shot to card. This is especially important if you are taking photos at hi res.
The photo mags are a pretty good way of learning too. It depends what you want to know. The manual will tell you what the buttons do, but a course will teach you about f-stops, apperture vs shutter priority, photo composition, framing and all that stuff.
You just can't beat practice though and you'll soon figure out what makes a good shot when you look at them. You'll notice at the start that you've framed the photo badly and you have caught passing traffic in your scenery shot, or the person is too small in the photo etc.
Have fun. I'm a bit envious, I'd love a 300D but still saving (and convincing the wife that we NEED it).
Cheers,
Smocky.
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