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chezzyr, no it doesn't. I let OH clean our 350D. I'm banned from doing that. ETA: Reviews I have read about the 400D says the image quality is exactly the same as the 350D.

Live view. Big whoop. My husband's Olympus has that and so does my compact.

Ah, I see. I read the post so quick I didn't pick up the 've at the end. I'm sure I'll be able to sell it at work, one guy put his up without the 70-300mm and it went like lightening.

kirsilin, you can buy my 350D IF I decide on selling it later. I'll bung in the 18-55mm and the 70-300mm lens too. Just deciding whether to sell it, it's in mint condition - not a scratch and only 20 months old.

Just read this on B&H's site. So the 400D should drop in price when it does. B&H New York have it for USD799 body only. I'll upgrade to a 30D (they are still made in NY) - 40D if I could afford it and I can't)), if anything. Camera or travel = travel will win out with me all the time. So it has 12.2 mega and live view, what else though? Canon 450D. Arrival: April 08 12.2-megapixel APS-C size CMOS Image Sensor DiG!C III Image Processor 9-point AF 0.1 sec start up time EOS Integrated Cleaning System SD memory card Light weight body (35g lighter than EOS 400D) Live View Mode ("Quick" & "Live" Modes) Picture Style Modes 3.0" LCD Monitor A 12.2-megapixel Canon developed CMOS sensor and DiG!C III Image Processor combine to deliver the highest image quality for first time DSLR users. With the ability to capture 3.5fps, the EOS 450D is great for fast moving subjects while new features such as live view and continuous shooting on self-timer offer more creative control for the user. The new compact and lightweight design combined with the new SD card slot make the EOS 450D ideal for developing photographers moving up from their digital compact camera. High Quality Images -12.2 megapixel Canon-developed CMOS sensor captures superb image quality with low noise and natural colour High Speed Performance - Digic III acting as the brain inside the camera, this chip produces unsurpassed detail & 14-bit colour - 9-point AF for ultra sharp images. You can manually select on of the 9 points to ensure correct focus - Capturing 3.5 fps with the ability to capture an incredible 53 shots in a single continuous burst Live View Modes - In tricky shooting situations such as crowds or confined spaces, you can view & compose images in real time on the huge 3.0" LCD monitor. Blemish Free Images The EOS Integrated Cleaning System prevents & automatically removes tiny dust particles resulting in spotless images.

The graphics artist and former photographer at the comapny husband used to work for gave him a copy to give to me. I just wish I knew how to use it properly, I only know the very basics . Er, I can do a vignette now with confidence. . I also found a great way to simulate Velvia 50 slide film on digital shots by using the channel control. Dead easy.

This is Photobucket hosting site versionof the same shot. ETA: I can't tell with that shot, it was taken too late at night. ruthless, are you right clicking on the image, saving to your computer and then uploading? Just trying to see how you are uploading them. I uploaded both from my hard drive but one was saved from Photobucket, is there another way you do it? I'm 'challenged' on this sort of stuff.

I've noticed it before as well. Photos just look a little different. I'll upload 2 to see if you can tell - but I'll upload a dark night shot. This is how I spent last night after taking mum out to dinner somewhere. Photoshop

OK so I'm all set to get a better lens. I asked my boss if he'd pick one up for me when he goes to New York in a fortnight. He said yes but he's not going to walk "all over bl**dy NY" for it but then said to email the guy going with him as he bought a lens not from B&H, but somewhere in Brooklyn on their last trip, just last year. So I emailed him and I hardly know the man, but he was lovely and said he would haggle with the dealers there to get the best price for me for cash. What a nice bloke. It's going to hurt withdrawing the money, even though boss said I can fix him up when he gets back, I'd prefer not owing anyone any money. Still tossing up if I should pay extra and get the Sigma one as it's a 2.8 or go for the Canon as it's an L. Ah, decisions. ETA: If I get the Canon L 200mm, can I can get a 1.4 teleconverter much later on and not be affected by much of a diminished image quality in photos seeing it's an L series lens? It I need some more zoom, that is. It's not like I'm going on safari, in which case I'd definitely need a 300 or 400mm.

Focus on the eyes, ruthless. Think of that bloke (the hypnotist) in Little Britain "Look into my eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes but the eyes"

Are you in the city this week, ruthless? Get down to the Botanical Gardens and take some flower shots if you are.

ruthless, the only reason I didn't use your macro lens was I was hiking in the rainforest and didn't want to cart around too many lenses. I only took my sigma 17-70 which has a lower macro capability.

I have a Canon 1.8 50mm lens that I haven't used yet but only tested it out on my parrot. It was about $115 and I bought it in Australia.

Is that the lens with the film camera I borrowed? I mentioned to you that lens was there, ruthless. I didn't use it but it fits my 350D so will fit your Canon too. I tried it out and it seemed to focus ok, bit noisy. I googled it ages back and you can pick one up for USD$299 http://www.pictureline.com/products/529/Ca..._Compact_Macro/ ETA: Just google it on google images

yep, I think I'll go for that. I honestly can't believe some of the shots we took and my husband took way too many of me! He took a photo I didn't know he'd taken though. Of some oil rig off the coast of a remote Scottish beach. It's not a good photo, had it of been it would have said a lot about the location and how man impacts on a beautiful landscape. OK, back to my roadtrip photos.

yep, chezzyr, I have written a few travel blogs on websites before and received emails about them from different countries which was nice. Why do you think I'm at home today? I'm doing my photos. I have way too many. My husband just about clicked at anything in Europe and I'm culling the bad ones and keeping the good ones. You have to be tough.

I want a website just so I can collate and put up all my travel images. They are all on a portable hard drive atm and when I want to send photos to friends and families, I have to send them individually by jpeg and sometimes their email account can't handle it. So, I want a hosting site where I can put photos in by country and region and then when I go away somewhere, I can just update the photos and send the link to friends to have a look at - much easier that way. pbase looks like it would suit my needs. I don't want some site full of banners and pop ups either as that is annyoing. I was also thinking flikr but really like the dark background on pbase but I'm not using the site as a way of selling anything, it's merely for personal use and showing friends and family my travel shots.

I have the photo of Smoky Cape Lighthouse (first one) as a desktop background on my monitor. Husband remarked as he saw it, "that's a nice photo". I told him it was the slide film. "Doesn't look real" he said. He said the colours are too vivid. No pleasing some - it's an unphotshopped slide!

Just like to say, Smoky Cape at Hat Head National Park is one of the most beautiful coastel sites I've seen. You can do the walk down to Hat Head beach and go through a cave around to another, isolated beach. A local told me it's a well kept secret, that cave. The park has camping facilities but if you wish, you can stay in the house on the photo above near the lighthouse. It's a B&B and charges $187 per night, per couple inluding a 3 course breakfast. You can also rent the cottage in that photo - sleeps 6 - for a few days to a week. We got there just as the light was fading, maybe next time.

Er, what ruthless said. Her really old lens. Now I'm thinking I might buy a film camera and some slide film, learn how to use it properly. The only thing is I would have no idea when it's last been serviced - does that matter? You can pick them up pretty cheaply on ebay and OH said he saw one in a pawn shop the other day. ETA: I took the Thunderbolts Lookout photo in digital and film as the hike there was only a kilometre from a picnic stop. When I pressed the shutter (I didn't have a tripod but steadied it on the lookout railing that was wide enough (I had the strap around my neck) it made this really slow whirring sound as it wound the film on, haven't heard that for years. The digital one came out blue as well but I don't remember the look out being THAT blue. It was blue but the slide film has intensified the colours, my digital image of the same scene is paler. When I took it to Ken's to get developed the young bloke said to me, "Slide film, how retro!"

This is for ruthless. Here are some photos I took with ruthless' mid 1990s model SLR, its lens and slide film. I didn't know exactly how it worked, ruthless, so just used the landscape settings. I tried to manually meter but it was very different from my 350D that way so I just used the program settings. I was experimenting to see how they would turn out. Here you go, old film photos scanned in by a photo place and left alone. I cropped the lighthouse one and resized them, that's it. These are from our road trip in January. The rest of my photos were shot on digital but mostly in raw and I don't have time to convert them all. Never again! I hate sitting on the computer at night. Smoky Cape Lighthouse, Hat Head National Park near South West Rocks, NSW. Thunderbolt's Lookout, Barrington Tops, NSW The sun setting, Barrington Tops ranges, NSW

I also like a Lonely Planet publication again Landscape Photorogahy - taking better pictures - Peter Eastway. Covers filters, light, photographing in all types of landscapes from rainforests to mountain ranges covered with snow. Lots of lovely pictures too he has taken over the years with film and digital - he only shoots digital now. There is also a similar LP book called Wildlife Photography - Andy Rouse. How to photograph animals in the wild and has lovely images.

I think Lonely Planet run a travel photo comp - competition is fierce. I have Lonely Planet's Travel Photography book which is by one of their well known photographers. It is LP book sized so small enough to pack and contains tips on shooting people, wildlife, indoor scenes, markets, buildings and all types of landscapes from waterfalls, mountains to coasts. I've learned a lot from reading it but you have to have a basic understanding of how your camera works and exposure to start with.

OK - you guys have had experience with this. I'll amend my first post. Marketing ploy too. I haven't travelled with Peregrine as they are too expensive but I'm on their newsletter email as I requested a brochure once.

Firstly, I'd order 'Understanding Exposure' from Amazon.com. That taught me more than any magazine. It's a very popular book. It depends on what type of photography you are interested in. I used to buy a lot of mags so I could absorb the info in there but now I only subscribe to 2. It was cheaper subscribing on line than waiting for them to hit the newsagents - and I get the latest issue and don't have to wait a month. As I'm interested in landscape, travel and wildlife only I buy UK mags, 'Outdoor Photography' which is focused on digital and film, has stunning scenes in it and isn't about editing every photo you take and another, very different one, called 'Digital DSLR User' which focuses just on DSLRs. Both are English. I don't like the Australian mags and find them boring.