How did you find this forum

[aam1234]

I honestly can't remember how I found this forum. But if I were to take a guess, I'd say it was reviewed in another site and followed the link.

So how did you find this forum?

[cmM]

Google :D

[rssfhs]

So how did you find this forum?

Quite entertaining, and you?

[aam1234]

Quite entertaining, and you?

Ha ha, I knew the question can mean more than one thing. Both meanings are welcomed :lol:

[aam1234]

Chris, we joined at about the same time (April/May). Just noticed that. Thought you were an old timer :p

[PacAce]

Came across this site when I was doing a Google search for anything related to digital photography and Canon Powershot G3. My life hasn't been the same since, i.e. I used to have a life before POTN. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[CoolToolGuy]

Google :D

Ditto

Have Fun,

[Belmondo]

I was mining for gold and found this amazing nugget.







Actually, too far back to remember.

[Anteros]

Actually I found it when the link to the P.O.T.N. Strap ordering page was posted on another forum.

Looked around. Liked it. Decided to stay. ;)

[cmM]

Actually, too far back to remember.
speaking of which.... how old is this forum?

[TSEE]

Google :D

Ditto. Google rocks. LOL

[Maureen Souza]

Cruising around Canon digital info on the net and landed in here. I confess I lurked for a couple of months, then decided to join up cuz I couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer.....:):)

[tim]

Google.

[DocFrankenstein]

typed in canon digital forum in google

[IanD]

Googled Canon Photography and never looked back:):)

[Pekka]

speaking of which.... how old is this forum?

It was opened 03-27-2001.

[Mills]

Google. Right after I got my 10D.

[Raj]

Google.

[thomascanty]

I don't remember. I had preordered the soon-to-be-released 10D and was looking around for a place to talk about it. I found the DPReview forums, but quickly realized that was a waste of time. I can't recall how I ended up here, but I've stuck around since then.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I found this forum a few years before I ever signed on ... in fact it was Pekka's galleries and articles back then.

I was dreaming of owning a D30 and panting over it for months,..

I googled "Eos D30" and found myself looking at images Pekka had taken with the D30 and if memory serves the 70-200mm...

When I found the forum later as I looked for a 10D... it was here that I found out where to get one (at the time they were virtually impossible to get)

Beleive it or not,. I was actually just "lurking" ... (i know I know hard to imagine)

[wolverinesr1]

google, i was looking up info on the dreb before i purchased it.after i got here it made me want the dreb even more.looking at all the pictures people were posting from that camera.

[HJMinard]

That ubiquitous search engine previously mentioned ...

[marie]

It was opened 03-27-2001.


sorry it's late for the 4th birthday Pekka
thanks
http://www.pbase.com/image/30353908/original.jpg

[Tom W]

I honestly can't remember how I found this forum. But if I were to take a guess, I'd say it was reviewed in another site and followed the link.

So how did you find this forum?

I did a search for something like "Canon" and "forum". Had the S-230 at the time, but was gearing up to make the big jump to EOS from FD and eventually to Digital. A lot has happened since then.

[roanjohn]

I used to be a DPREVIEW fanboy........then I got kicked out for trollish behavior :-p BOO!!!! That's when I switched to POTN...........really don't know how I found it though, its as if I was magically lead to it.

.........weird.

Ro1

[pradeep1]

I remember I was shopping for my first real digital camera and I typed "canon digital photography" and Pekka's personal site with G2 pictures appeared. I then found this forum while playing around on his site. The rest is history.....;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

I used to be a DPREVIEW fanboy........then I got kicked out for trollish behavior :-p BOO!!!! That's when I switched to POTN...........really don't know how I found it though, its as if I was magically lead to it.

.........weird.

Ro1

Snatched from the very pits of hell just in time to save your soul!

A troll?
You?
I can't picture it?

[Moppie]

google is my friend......

[mickle]

I love Google.....

[Skip Souza]

Actually, too far back to remember.

Last week???

[Skip Souza]

Cruising around Canon digital info on the net and landed in here. I confess I lurked for a couple of months, then decided to join up cuz I couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer.....:):)

Right!!!
The wife made me do it!!!

[reidr]

The train stopped here....I don't know why....maybe the ticket I was holding wouldn't let me fly.....;)
Or maybe it was that I got googled.....

[roanjohn]

Snatched from the very pits of hell just in time to save your soul!

A troll?
You?
I can't picture it?

ALLELUIA!!!!

Even a troll can find salvation.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ro1

[CousinMadness]

I have found the folks here unusually friendly by forum standards....

.... oh.... you mean.....

A search on Google for "Folk who spend too much time at the computer"... no honestly.

My life is better since I came here - I have learned a lot of things and made some friends too. Thanks for asking.


CM.

[rpcm]

Google. Right after I got my 10D.

Same for me

[markubig]

i owned a canon g3 for two years, and didn't know how to do anything except Auto Mode. A friend of mine, who was a photography student, told me that I can do a lot with my camera, and she showed me some awesome samples. So then i went to Google and typed, "How to take pictures with a Canon G3" and this forum was one of the first links listed.

It was love at first site http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/tongue3.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/tongue3.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gifhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

.

[stoneylonesome]

Came across this site when I was doing a Google search for anything related to digital photography and Canon Powershot G3. My life hasn't been the same since, i.e. I used to have a life before POTN. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Same here! Just goes to show great minds think alike.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Course now all I have to do is google my sign in name and it lists this site. talk about no life. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[MazerRakhm]

Google

I watched for quite a while, then finally joined. Now I occasionally post, maybe one day I'll graduate to regular poster.

Not now though, the Cubs game is starting...

[jyrgen]

Probably googled for Canon G3 as well.

[Jackal]

I was researching the digital rebel before I bought it.

If it wasn't for this forum I would have never found out the XT was coming out and would have spent it all on a rebel (before it even dropped priced heh). No doubt I got the XT instead. ;)

[nitsch]

Another vote for Google! :)

[eosster]

Got lucky.

[am_pitbull_terrier]

I did a Google search for Canon Forums

[Conk]

I can't remember how I found the forum. I think I was just searching for some canon stuff and stumbled on it through google. I had already had a canon camera.

[malla1962]

my wife found it,but i think she regrets it now.

[MarkoPolo]

I just had purchased the G-3 and found the "Shortcourse" website and ordered the book and CD. I believe they linked me to POTN. I wasn't until I got the 10D last March that I started lurking in earnest and got up enough nerve to post as a New Year's resolution this January.

[cjm]

Google :DMe too, found it because I was looking for a better photography board then 2peasinabucket that has nothing I can learn from there and it is filled with women, no moms.

[nosquare2003]

Because of one interesting thread that I did not understand years ago. More exactly, I still do not understand now.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2849

[chaitu]

I was researching about digital architecture, and then after some unexpected chain of links ... here i am.

[JMAS]

I did some Goole on Canon digital and A70... ended up here, seen several others but never left since. :D

...then...discovered PS... bought the 300D, the 70-200f4L, ordered some filters, thinking about the 50mm 1.8, the 1.4x teleconverter or is it the 100-400L?... HAAAAA!

This place is awesome. ;)

[Steve Parr]

I'm pretty sure that, right after I bought my 300D, I typed "digital photography", or "Canon digital photography" into Google.

That was one of the more prosperous days in my online life, as I've learned much since joining, and have seen plenty to aspire to.

So, I guess it was a happy accident that I found it. I've spent a bit of cash since joining, but I'm glad I did.

My wife? Not so much...

:lol::lol::lol:

Steve

[cjm]

Before I came here all I wanted was at most a Canon Rebel but now I want the 20d! Man alive finding this board has cost me a grand in the soon future. But maybe I should wait and buy one of the group members 20d when a 40d (or whatever) comes out, after all a 20d is one heck of a good camera. It'll be good for a long time to come. Probably at least 10 years.

[Carzee]

I think it was link at Canonians.

[Wazza]

Through my friend. He joined in about July, and I just read posts. Until I decided it was my turn to share some photos from my Sony V1. ;)

Registered November. I actually held off for a few weeks, as I had some bizarre thing, that I wanted to join as member #20,000. I had a look.. kept looking.. Forgot, went back, and realised it was now 20,137... So signed up as 20,138. Silly me, I could have been 17,000 something. :lol:

[RJSorensen]

Google . . .

[Moniphoto]

Google :)

[exposingmyself]

I don't remember. I had preordered the soon-to-be-released 10D and was looking around for a place to talk about it. I found the DPReview forums, but quickly realized that was a waste of time. I can't recall how I ended up here, but I've stuck around since then. or Google

the same for me

[Andy_T]

Because of one interesting thread that I did not understand years ago. More exactly, I still do not understand now.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2849

Haha ... I KNEW it was that thread!
We should bump it again soon to throw it among the unsuspecting users... :LOL:

I found the forum in early 2003 when I was researching whether I should buy an S40/S45 or go for the G2.
I actually wanted a Coolpix 5700 :twisted: but could not afford it ... guess I was really lucky :D

Best regards,
Andy

[Rob612]

Google, what else ? Found the place and registered the same day. I just liked it. And everyday I like it more.

[Jon]

Damfino. I came, I looked, I posted, I stayed. Maybe it was mentioned on the Pop. Photo forums?

[exposingmyself]

NOW I REMEMBER!!! For Christmas 2005, I got my EOS 300D (i'm a little slow, not a learning disability just a slow learner and need to read things twice) and couldn't find anywhere in the manual about the noise I kept hearing in my camera.

Here's my first post ever.

Hello all! My first time here and this looks like a wonderful place to be. I just received my camera this past christmas and boy am I excited. I need the following help. My camera is making this small tingling sound when I tilt the camera back and forth, sort of like the glass or mirror is sliding or something very small is either loose. It doesn't sound like it's bouncing around inside. I just hear a slide back and forth. :confused: Also, I'll be shooting pictures in a classroom with kids and parents moving around, the room has fluroscent lights. I don't want to use flash. Please offer advice for shooting in this setting.
Thank you for your time!

and here are the first people to ever give me their time and expertise...
tommykjensen
F1_Fan
Photopig
Kiwimichael
KevC
hk29

They were all sooooooooooo nice, sweet and helpful to me that I never left. :D

[aam1234]

Now I'm curious, what was that noise, and did you fix it?

[Stosh]

Last summer, I was bouncing around the net trying to decide on which DSLR to get, when I happened on this place. Ended up getting a 20D, and have learned much from everyone else here.

[cactusclay]

I think I just stumbled upon it by accident.

[exposingmyself]

That would be a gyro that determines if You shoot in portrait or landscape mode. So it can turn the photo automatically when viewing. Congrats and I am sure You will be happy with the camera once You get to know it well.-tommykjensen

oh, it was nothing. just a gyro. ;)

[serissolutions]

Google... I was looking for any photography forum. Stumbled on this one.

[Claire]

Think I did a Google search for "digital photography" or something similar.

[Sketcher]

-Was googling for info on G3 Accessories and found POTN.
-Thought I'd see how the "Other Half" lived and took a stroll through the land of Canon EOS.
-Saw some work by a guy who goes by the name "Pekka"; establishing my "need" for a DSLR.
-The buzz at the time was loud with comments about how hard it was to get a 10D.
-Someone tipped me to check my local BB, I had some BB gift certificates; done deal.

No one in my RL really understands my Canon DSLR obsession; so I have to stop in here every now and then to feel 'normal'.

[Medic1]

Google, after buying my 300D