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I haven’t had any problems with tap water, but if you do I’ve seen people recommend using the final rinse with wetting agent in distilled water.

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“This article will post to the Main page on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 at 1:26 AM”

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Hmm… Do you have a decent camera now? If not, are you willing to lose all of the photos you could take in the meantime waiting for a new camera to come out?

If you do, it probably makes sense to wait either way, as the price on the 20D should fall significantly when the 30D comes out.

YMMV, of course…

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There’s an old rule of thumb that the safe speed for handholding = 1/focal length, so at 55mm that would be 1/50 or thereabouts. It really depends on your tolerance for sharpness and how steady your hands are, though.

As you get to that point you can use a camera support or increase the ISO (use faster film, or go into the menus and change the setting on digital) which will allow you to use smaller apertures and/or faster shutter speeds, at the cost of increased noise/grain.

I don’t know if the d100 is the same as the d70, but on the D70 in P mode you can change the combined aperture and shutter speed (keeping the same exposure) using the rear command dial – this makes experimenting with the differences really easy.

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Yeah, that’s normal – voting gets disabled when a thread is greenlighted (you can vote before that happens, and I think those votes count)

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Any cons of having these on my stuff?

If you leave one on your lens most of the time, it’s a good idea to take it off if you’re shooting into a bright light source – most of the time any negative effect from a UV filter will be negligible, but they can increas flare.

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I have patterson plastic adjustable reels, and loading 35mm has never been a problem at all.

Adam

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Your built in flash probably isn’t powerful enough to do you any good unless you can get very close (10-15′). If you’re going to use flash you’ll need a more powerful external one.

Absent that, try turning the ISO setting up (as high as it will go if the results at that speed are acceptible) and use shutter priority with a speed high enough to stop the action – at least 1/200 or so.

A faster lens would definitely help too. I think Canon makes a cheap 50mm 1.8 prime. If you’re using an 18-55 right now and don’t feel you need something longer that might work.

Adam

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