Canon EOS Rebel 300D

[Laura B. Shelley]

I feel your pain. Here I've got this brand-new, extremely cool camera with tons of modern functions that I am putting great effort into learning, and I spend most of my time during shoots jogging from one end of a playground to the other just trying to get the kids in frame, much less properly exposed. Who knew painting children's portraits could be such a strenuous occupation?

Well, I hope that AE lock stuff will eventually come in handy for both of us; I don't think I've used it yet in the five shoots I've done since my Digital Rebel arrived. The true saving grace of digital cameras as far as I'm concerned is being able to carry two 512 meg cards in my pocket instead of ten or twelve rolls of film for my vintage A-1. When I can shoot 250-300 exposures in an hour without stopping to rewind and load, I have to be doing very badly not to find eight or ten good ones in the bunch!

[Elizabeth Schott]

Laura and all the rest who own a Canon Digtal Rebel... we will no longer let those Nikon people brag and go on!

Go to a photography store and buy the book, Magic Lantern Guides Canon EOS Digital Rebel

You will be totally amazed at the things this camera can do that you would never have known by just reading your manufactures manual. Histogram in the LCD/viewer... yeah, we got that! It's all there.

Laura and Mike, thanks for opening my eyes to research this!

[Mary Sparrow]

Ok Beth, Im a rebel with you now....got my rebel yesterday. Now to figure it out.

[Elizabeth Schott]

Originally Posted by Mary Smith

Ok Beth, Im a rebel with you now....got my rebel yesterday. Now to figure it out.

Congrats Mary!

I hope you figure it out well enough to teach it to me!

[Alicia Kornick]

Beth,

I bought the Canon EOS 20D and still playing with it. Is there a book for the EOS also that you would recommend.
Thinking of taking a course at a local camera shop on digital photography especially with the EOS.

Alicia

[Mary Sparrow]

Alicia, I don't know about the books, since I just got this thing yesterday, but I did spend a couple of hours in the wee hours this morning on www.photoworkshop.com and it was a fabulous tutorial if you haven't already done it.

I'm having a hard time getting good indoor pictures that aren't coming out blurry...with the tripod. The dang flash keeps popping up, and when I put it on the no flash mode it focuses OK, but not great. Any thoughts? Coming straight off a point and shoot, it is going to take time to learn all the manual focusing, so I need to know this camera can do the trick without me being a camera whiz.

I asked about this in a rebel forum and they thought I was nuts wanting to know why I would want to take portraits without a flash when portrait photographers had all sorts of flashes.

[Elizabeth Schott]

Mary I just sent you an email.

Alicia, I figure with the three of us we can beat this thing!

The one book I recommend is:
Canon EOS Digital Rebel it is a series in the Magic Lantern Guides.

It is much easier and comprehensive than the manual.

Two sites I recommend:

for anyone shooting photo reference:

Glowluzid's Portrait Tips

for Canon owners:

Photoworkshop

Have fun!

[Alicia Kornick]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for the link, no, I haven't gone there yet. I haven't tried to take pics yet without the flash. I am not having a problem with blurriness but I will try to take some without the flash and see what happens. I don't have a photo shoot for a couple of months (thank goodness).

For what I paid for this camera it should be able to whistle "Dixie" and I'm sure it can, just have to learn all of it's capabilities. When I download the pics they are coming out way too dark, look ok on the LCD screen on the camera though. I then have to lighten them up in photoshop. Guess it is something to do with the white balance.

I have an old Minolta SLR with a portrait lens that takes incredible portrait shots and a Canon Rebel point and shoot. The digital, once I get the hang of it will be a time saver. No need to run back and forth to the processor.
Alicia