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More info?)
Calum wrote:
> Sorry about that, I'll seek it out. How can I find out the frame
> count? I've been playing around with it, still has the novelty value
> so I grin like an idiot when the flash pops up and I fire off 4 photos!
> (This after coming from a 1.3MP camera!)
r.p.d.s is more speicialized toward digital SLRs, but this group is
perfectly appropriate as well... it just tends to have more non-SLR "noise".
As a 300D owner as well (although it's taken me several months to hit
the 3200 frame mark, I figure the camera has already paid for itself in
film costs), I agree with everyone else: go nuts on the shutter button,
play willy-nilly with settings, and see what happens: the beautiful part
it, all your settings are stored in hidden EXIF data with every photo
(they're embedded in the JPGs; if you shoot RAW, you have to extract it
from the corresponding THM file) so with an EXIF-capable viewer, you can
always look at what settings you used (ISO, shutter, aperture, EV,
flash, even lens and focal lenth used) to achieve a particular shot.
For a viewer, I'd highly recommend IrfanView: it's small, fast, simple,
with a nice complement of features including EXIF viewer (hit the 'I'
key when viewing a picture, then click the EXIF button on the
Information window that pops up), has auto-rotate (EXIF also stores the
horizontal/vertical orientation info from the camera, so the viewer can
auto-rotate pictures shot holding the camera veritcally), and best of
all, is absolutely FREE from www.infanview.com. Get the plug-in pack as
well: there's support for Canon's RAW (.CRW) format.
Finally, a good site to check out would be the Canon Digital Learning
Center at
http/www.photoworkshop.com/canon/index.html - they have free
online tutorials that go through all the basics of digital photography,
and assignments to try out and learn different features of your 300D,
from simple to advanced.