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Thursday, Feb. 03, 2005 - 8:59 p.m. The Digital Rebel and its lenses have arrived. I had them in my hands (at work) by 10 am this morning. Since Beavis is so anal (his rule is �Absolutely no personal deliveries at work!�, even though I can�t find anything in the employee code prohibiting this), I called Doughnut (his boss) last week and cleared this delivery through him. I also promised Doughnut that I wouldn�t play with the camera. I would only receive it, and then put it inside my locked Hillbilly truck. Since the UPS guys always stops by the storage around 10 am, I had a plan to keep Bev from even knowing I had a package- I mopped the floors in the office. Even told him that he should stay in his office while the floors dried. Sneaky? Yes, in a 6th grader kinda way. It worked. He never knew the package arrived. I have to admit- the temptation to play with this toy was high. But I left the CF media card at home. Since the camera didn�t come with one, that meant I couldn�t take photos even if I wanted to. So I didn�t even take the new camera, or the lenses, out of their respective boxes. But� I did take the battery out of the box, and hooked it up with the charger. Might have used .02� worth of taxpayer electricity, getting it ready to use. Don�t tell Beavis. I also removed the owner�s manual from the box. I only looked at it on my own time. So� I think you can say I kept my promise, right? This camera is much closer to a SLR film camera than I have been used to for the past 6 years. There are tons of manual settings that I need to learn about, along with such basic functions as deleting a file while still in the camera (I think I have that down) to how to set the shutter speed to work without a flash in low light situations (not even close right now). I can use my old media card reader to upload the files. That will save me from having to add more software to this 3-year-old Dell, which is a very good thing. The file viewing program I am still using is the one that came with the Fuji digital I bought 4 years ago! It is still the easiest upload file I have found, and does just what I want it to do. The basic Adobe� Photoshop Elements disc will be downloaded and given a shot. If I can do some editing features better with it than either the Photo Elf or Photo Impressions programs I already utilize, it will find a place on my desktop. But as of now, I don�t plan on taking the Canon cd-rom out of it�s wrapping� Since I didn�t even put a lens on the body until I was home tonight, I didn�t have time to try to do anything special with the Rebel. This weekend? Codeman has already told me he wants to experiment with it with me, whenever I have the time. I�ll make the time, Super Bowl and Illini vs. Indiana basketball be damned. There is plenty more I have to say about both why I bought this camera, and what I plan on doing with my still useful my old cameras in the next few days. For now, I want to leave you with 2 edited photos I took this evening after work. Like I said- nothing special. Both were taken with my butt planted in the computer desk�s chair. But I think both give you an idea of the potential this camera (along with the many filters and old lenses I have to use with it) has. First one- just a shot of several leaves on an old schefflera tree (houseplant) I have growing in the second bedroom:
Pretty colorful. But this next one really caught my eye. I took it with my Vivitar 70-210 mm macro lens that I used to use on the old film Rebel. I used the new camera�s built-in flash, and used the zoom portion of the lens so I could get as far away from Sproutman as possible. After cropping, I came up with this perspective of the little man, grooming himself:
I think I will be having a lot of fun with this new camera�.
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