This is topic The Canon EOS 10D, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Digital SLRs. in forum Books, Films, Food and Culture at Hatrack River Forum.
What can I say? The camera is just plain incredible. I have just posted a few pictures I took over the weekend with it, and as it is plain to see, the camera just takes excellent pictures, period. A full size print from the 10D is a crisp 18x12. The pictures I have posted on foobonic are tiny in comparison to the originals. I had to shrink them down to a third of their size or less to fit your puny screens. Enjoy.
PS, Mack, I no longer have access to the camera, so you can call off your plot to kill me and take it.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I have no use for high-pixelcount digital cameras, though, since I don't make prints. My beloved Canon maxes out at 1280x960, but that's already more than my monitor will display
[ August 13, 2003, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: twinky ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Twink, I love the one of the shores. It reminded me of the tidal pool beach I saw in California once. That was a truly lovely day.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I think Chaeron and I have conclusively shown that Canada is beautiful (after all, if both ends are beautiful, the whole thing must be beautiful too, right? ).
P.S. As I said before, Chaeron, you take awesome photos.
[ August 13, 2003, 03:39 PM: Message edited by: twinky ]
Posted by Chaeron (Member # 744) on :
Twinky, you certainly take good pictures as well. The one of the shore is certainly nicer than mine. You certainly have a talent for photography; your pictures make me want to visit the Rock. I'm wondering: overall, how do you like it there?
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I lived in Newfoundland for four months – January to April 2002. Not exactly the best time to be on the Rock. It was cold – and I mean bone-chilling – and snowy. Dark, too. It's stark, but beautiful for precisely that reason.
Of course now that I'm living in Ontario there isn't much worth photographing. But while I'm home in Nova Scotia I sometimes take a few pictures as well.
I do intend to one day see the Western provinces; I've never been west of Ontario. It's just that first I have to go back to New Zealand Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
Heh, I've never been east of Saskatchewan. Speaking of Saskatchewan, it's one hell of a beautiful province. <--- Sarcasm, for the non-Canadian Hatrackers.
I need to get me a nice digital camera.
Posted by Chaeron (Member # 744) on :
If you do make it out to BC, let me know and I can show you around.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Deal. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Shame on you, Chaeron, for infecting me with a terrible case of geek lust for that camera. $1500 would feed a family of 25 Bangladeshis for 10 years! What would the Rabbit say about my first world decadent consumption rate if I bought one of those cameras? Arrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh, I want one!
Posted by unohoo (Member # 5490) on :
Impressive! I have a couple of technical questions because I have been dithering about buying a digital camera.
I saved one of the photo's and opened it in photoshop and looked at the image size. It said that the resolution is 180 pixels/inch. You said that you cut the image by a third, does that mean the original image was 540 pixels/inch? How many pics of that size can the cannon hold in memorY?
TIA
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
ak – nothing, because we wouldn't tell Rabbit about it, would we? Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
twinky -- I'm afraid she'd notice when I started posting the pictures. <laughs>
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Well, my attitude is "if you can afford it, and you want it, why not?"
I mean, I'm sure Rabbit would have some choice words about my Mac-using ways, my GameCube, and my plans to buy an iPod. But do I let that stop me? No sir!
Posted by Chaeron (Member # 744) on :
Anne Kate: She'd say "Nice pictures."
unohoo: the image stays 180 pix/inch. The full size photo is 17x11".
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
"If you start selling your plasma right now, you can afford to get me that D10 for Christmas" - Bill
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Chaeron isn't that big. I think I could probably beat him up and take his camera away from him.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Ralphie, I'm so touched that you would do that for me.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I'm intending to get one of those in a couple years (I'll be saving).
As to number of photos it can hold, it has a compactflash slot, so it can have up to several gigabytes of memory (up to 10, right now). That's many, many photos (several hundred, I believe).
Posted by jasonepowell (Member # 1600) on :
Try several thousand.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
*drooooooooooool*
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Lets see, at best resolution each is 8 MB, so several over a hundred in each gig.
Yeah, 1000-1300 (not exactly 8 MB, not sure of the space taken up by the drive's/disks partition table and whatnot).
And that's at max res.
Thats with either a really expensive 10 gig IBM Microdrive (fits in the CF2 slot) or a hideously expensive 10 gig CF card.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Well, maybe by the time I get back from Iraq and have money again the price will even have come down. Someone should buy me one now, though, so I can take great pictures of the Iraqi landscapes and people and pepper them throughout my posts letting you know how things are over there. (Please don't expect me to live up to the excitement which is Daedalus' sojourn in Costa Rica, though. I could never hope to compete. )
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
You can get them used for around $1300 if you know where to look.
In a couple years they'll likely be down around $1000 depending on tech stuff.
The big cost isn't the base camera, it's the lenses to do the base camera justice :-) .
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