tonyw3026
25th of October 2004 (Mon), 13:16
After a couple of weeks lurking, and getting all sorts of useful information from this forum, it's time to introduce myself. My wife and I treated ourselves for our first big post-retirement trip in January 2005 (three months in Burma/Laos/Cambodia and Vietnam) by buying a 300D, 20D, 17-40L and 70-200L all at once. I think the salesman went home happy.
We have been avid Canon users for 30 years and I still have my original AE1 which works perfectly. there was never any doubt we would buy Canon when the time came to switch to digital. The only thing that has kept us with film up to now has been the shutter delay of digitals, unless we paid more than we could justify. Now the 300D is here, that objection is gone. I have also always known the benefit of buying good lenses but somehow over the years have kept straying back to cheaper lenses with impressive paper specs. With some money to spend right now, but probably not later, we decided to dive in and get what we needed for our travel photography and buy the L glass. The comments and advice on this forum helped us make up our minds.
In case you are wondering, the 300D is for my wife who takes great photos but has never been one to make many camera adjustments. She has a good eye and achieves good results through intuition. I am an engineer and get more out of technology that I can master hence the 20D with it's greater flexibility is for me. We will fight over the new lenses I am sure.
You might be interested in our website www.wright-photo.com which shows hundreds of photos of earler trips to SE Asia and my sailboat trips to Labrador and Greenland
The next decision we face is how to store thousands of digital images for our three month trip in third world countries. I have done some research into this and will post a question on the "Talk about Photography" forum
Tony and Sue
We have been avid Canon users for 30 years and I still have my original AE1 which works perfectly. there was never any doubt we would buy Canon when the time came to switch to digital. The only thing that has kept us with film up to now has been the shutter delay of digitals, unless we paid more than we could justify. Now the 300D is here, that objection is gone. I have also always known the benefit of buying good lenses but somehow over the years have kept straying back to cheaper lenses with impressive paper specs. With some money to spend right now, but probably not later, we decided to dive in and get what we needed for our travel photography and buy the L glass. The comments and advice on this forum helped us make up our minds.
In case you are wondering, the 300D is for my wife who takes great photos but has never been one to make many camera adjustments. She has a good eye and achieves good results through intuition. I am an engineer and get more out of technology that I can master hence the 20D with it's greater flexibility is for me. We will fight over the new lenses I am sure.
You might be interested in our website www.wright-photo.com which shows hundreds of photos of earler trips to SE Asia and my sailboat trips to Labrador and Greenland
The next decision we face is how to store thousands of digital images for our three month trip in third world countries. I have done some research into this and will post a question on the "Talk about Photography" forum
Tony and Sue