----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:48 AM Subject: EOS Your RebelXT or 350D Settings
> I have just gone digital! I have migrated from an Elan IIe to a 7e > to a Digital Rebel XT (350D). I just got the camera and have played > with it a little bit but I'm about to go on vacation and need a few > answers to help my transition. Are there any good web sites that help? > > I have found that I really miss the eye controlled focus. I used it > all the time on my IIe and 7e. Do you find yourselves manually > changing the focus points much or do you focus lock on center and > reframe the shot? > I was mostly shooting in One Shot. I would have liked to use AI > Servo but the DOF Preview wouldn't work with it. Is the same thing > true with the Rebel XT? What is your mode of choice? > Thanks, > > -= Ken =- Hi Ken, I too had a 50E(ElanIIE) some years ago and really enjoyed the ECF. Moved up(?) to an EOS3 and its ECF never really worked for me. (I wear bifocals and 45 is too many points.) Went digital 3 years ago with a 10D and missed the ECF, bought a 30V (= ~ 7E?) last summer and was very impressed with ECF (and its exposure accuracy on Provia 100F) once again. Am now using a 5D and enjoying the large, detailed images but would still like working ECF. However, I'm a true sucker, so I expect I'll swallow Canon's bait when they put additional <must have> features into their next high priced, lightweight body! I largely stick to centre focus point with Eval metering. Only on my EOS3 with long lenses (and the relevant CFs set), did I let the camera track the (flying) birds by itself selecting the focus point - marvellous. (And I shoot largely jpeg keeping RAW in reserve for when I need it. I've shot enough film in my time to understand exposure, histograms etc. and I rarely need RAW to get me out of exposure trouble problems, although I can now see its use for colour balance adjustment after exposure under tricky lighting conditions. ) Shooting very high contrast scenes in the Dolomites last month, I was careful to keep the histogram at the right but just away from over-exposure. Images look overly dark* on the LCD and on the computer monitor, but the noise on the 5D is so low that a suitable curves correction in Photoshop has produced excellent results with minimal noise in the shadows. *Some looked totally unrecoverable but are fine. I mainly use One Shot leaving AIServo for action shots where DOF isn't the priority. Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
