[Zumaki]

yeah I tried that first (forgetting it needs a driver) and 7 told me it didn’t know what to do, and couldn’t find a driver to fit. So I installed the canon driver, and it still doesn’t work. But fun story: I went to the Canon Europe website and they had x64 drivers there that work. Huh.

[Zumaki]

honest question: what do you link the camera to the compy for?

Well, camera came with software + cord, and a card reader costs money (I have a homebuilt computer) so linking up was the fastest option.

I guess it’s time to suck it up and buy one.

[Zumaki]

Response from Canon-

Dear Zumaki:

Thank you for your inquiry. We value you as a Canon customer and
appreciate the opportunity to assist you. We are sorry to hear of any
difficulties downloading your images from your Rebel XT.

Regrettably, at this time the Windows 7 64 bit operating system is not a
currently supported operating system.

Card readers are relatively inexpensive, most electronic stores carry
them for $25 or less, and these card readers make it much easier to
download to your computer.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused you. Please let
me know if we can be of any further assistance with your Canon Rebel XT.

Sincerely,

Ronald
Technical Support Representative

[Zumaki]

yeah i haven’t used ebay in a while, so I used my old WoW auctioning skills. Put high price on, see what happens, then try something more reasonable. I suck at the internets 🙁

[Zumaki]

I just recently got the 100-300 (non-IS) and I’m pretty happy with it. From what I read, DO NOT get the 70-300 non-IS. I think retail is around $300 but I found a gently used for just over $200.

I need the image stabilizer. I have a very difficult time holding the camera still.

Personally, if I’m shooting at any kind of zoom, I need a tripod anyway. I don’t know how much the IS would help with that.

Yeah, and if you have IS on while using a tripod, it actually makes things worse.

[Zumaki]

I know just the shot i wanna use! Yaaaaaay.

[Zumaki]

Guess what happens when you put a $25 filter in front of a $1200 lens? That’s right, you get a $25 picture.

I dunno about that. I’ve taken several pictures with the cheapy UV filter on or off, and don’t see a difference. I’d say its worth an insignificant loss in quality or a bit of distortion to protect the glass from dust and scratches.

Then again, I’m only using a $450 lens. I think I’d be more apt to believe you if someone looked at my pics one day and said “oh this is nice, but would have been better without the filter on.”

edit: my lens is multipurpose, so I wind up poking around with things near the glass, and I don’t own a hood. And my $.02 on the ‘digital’ filter thing is that its probably bullcrap, like monster’s $150 HDMI cables vs $12 ones you can get on newegg. It’s just a gimmick to sound more important.

[Zumaki]

shutter speed long means:

high aperature number (30+ during the day if you can)
low ISO number (<=100)
polarizers help but change the contrast
sunglasses help but can let light creep in the sides or will subtly warp the image
unless you’re wanting to intentionally blur motion, you can also use multiple exposures and newer versions of photoshop will stack the images like a multi exposure shot.

[Zumaki]

looks kind of flimsy.

I saw a guy at a wedding last weekend with this frosted globe thing over his flash, and he had it aimed straight up. most of the flash would hit the ceiling and bounce back, but some got caught in the frosted plastic and softly illuminated targets. Dunno if its the same kind of thing as this, but I liked the effect it made. Similar to what the sample pics on that site showed.

[Zumaki]

jpeg = 1 picture, 1 exposure (what you see is what you get)

RAW = several pictures, 1 exposure (due to wb adjust, exposure compensation, tonal quality, sharpness/color adjust)

[Zumaki]

Somewhere, buried deep (about 200 posts) in, I posted a captioned version of one of soosh’s pics (no voting though). I blame the internet for making me want to caption every animal pic I see.

with 200+ posts already in the thread I didn’t really feel like throwing in my own submissions. Maybe next week…

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Well I gave the channel mixing another shot… it doesn’t work out. I even played with the levels of each channel mix rather than swapping 100%. I’m going to have to keep working on my google-fu to find some settings to try for the rebel xt; I think the fact that it is sensitive to IR in both the red and blue range makes it more difficult to create a ‘false color’ effect.

And protanomaly can’t help either.

[Zumaki]

I think what was done in a lot of those shots is swapping the red and blue channels in post-processing. That’s pretty commonly done with digital infrared photos, it makes what was red, blue and vice versa.

if only it were so easy for me 🙁

[Zumaki]

orionid I’ve heard that too but I’ve also seen online galleries with some pretty good pics where the photographer says he used a dslr + filter with no mods. I think the problem might just lie with me having a really crummy camera, but I noticed the T1i is down to $800 so I may ebay some old stuff of mine and try to jump up to that… but now I’m off topic.

*coughs*

I have an old pentax film camera, maybe I’ll just have to start playing around with it again if I want some decent IR in the meantime.

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