A nice photograhic experience

[johnridley]

I used the new SLR (Canon 500D) to shoot about 500 frames at the wedding last night, and 100 frames at church this morning (baptism and confirmation).

FINALLY I have a camera that does exactly what I expect it to do, instantly, without hesitation, focuses and exposes well. The previous SLR was certainly great in its time; when I bought it, it was certainly the best camera I'd ever owned, but it had its drawbacks.

Batteries; after 500 frames last night, most with flash, the camera's battery was still reading totally full and the flash was still charging fast though I don't know how full the batteries were.

It's so nice to take pictures without being constantly irritated by the camera doing something stupid or being slow.

There was a lot of Canon presence last night; in fact it's all I saw other than point-and-shoot cameras. I made the mistake of putting Mike's 10-22mm on my camera, and in 5 minutes it had moved from "that looks interesting" to "Yeah, I want that". Another piece of glass for the wish list.

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[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

So when are the wedding photos going to be available for viewing?

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Hm, I was just going to hand the DVD off to Kevin, as I'm sure he'll build an album with everyone's stuff, but I guess I could upload a few of my shots.