Post by SidW on Apr 2, 2008 17:54:34 GMT -5
renaldo said:
Have been a convinced film only shooter for YEARS. Just got my first digital camera and looking at all the controls...ouch...wow!! ...... Are no members among the CANON?Hi Renaldo, make it simple. Pretend it's a film camera and do what you always did. You didn't mention what your previous camera was. The digital EOS cameras have very similar layout to the previous film EOS cameras, the last EOS film cameras were every bit as complicated. How did you expose before? Check the methods, program, aperture priority or shutter priority (it was easy for me, for 45 years I've always preferred aperture priority). Then look at "film" sensitivity, now called ISO, your 30D should cover roughly from 50 to 1600 ASA, that's a setting you'll need to master so you can change it. Another thing is quality of lighting - with film you would buy a special film for each lighting, or use filters when the light is wrong. That is built into your 30D, anything to do with colour temperature is now summarized under "white balance". You'll need to master that so you can switch at will between sunshine, cloudy, electric, flash etc.
The real difference comes when you want to "take the film out". You'll need to know how to unload the pictures to a computer.
To justify the investment in a 30D, take only "raw" images (read about image quality, all the compressed methods discard some image quality). "Raw" is the nearest you'll get to a film negative or transparency. Any of the other options can be done equally well with a simpler compact digital that's ten times cheaper.
Good luck. By the way, mines a 20D.