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[m.oreilly]

you are right shoeb, that be them , great prices, those. i will most likely be bugging you from time to time re this stuff

[shoebappa]

m.oreilly, on Mar 13 2008, 02:06 AM, said:

you are right shoeb, that be them , great prices, those. i will most likely be bugging you from time to time re this stuff

anytime

[m.oreilly]

shoebappa, on Mar 13 2008, 03:09 AM, said:

anytime

i hope you don't regret saying that...

thanks to your wonderful gear tips, i have found the camera body (xti: 10.1mp) for a steal, along with another super price on the 18-55 IS (man, after checking out your flickr stuff, i am super stoked!). i just installed the photomatixs app (in x64bit server'08, no less!), and the canon RAW codec, and am now just double checking prices before ordering...

oh, and for everyone to check out your cool stuff:

http://www.flickr.co...otos/shoebappa/

[brewin]

Finally got some time today to screw around with the Canon A570IS I bought a couple weeks ago. I installed CHDK, which is unbelievably cool, and took a shot off my deck at 5 autobracketed exposures. I then processed the RAW images in Photomatix.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing, but I thought my first HDR image came out pretty well. (Pay no attention to the watermarks.)

 hdrtest.jpg   1.24MB   23 downloads

[Christopholofigus]

Very nice. I really need to play with my Nikon d50 dslr...meh, but i need the time. Alas, can we change the days to like 32 hours instead? LOL

[m.oreilly]

wow brew, that is fantastic! it is the ideal hdr: not too over the top. in fact, that is very impressive

[brewin]

m.oreilly, on Apr 8 2008, 10:33 PM, said:

wow brew, that is fantastic! it is the ideal hdr: not too over the top. in fact, that is very impressive

Yeah, that's what I was going for. I've seen some that are way overdone.

I'm going to Washington, D.C. in June, so I'm trying to learn as much about photography as I can before then. I didn't even know what EV meant until today, so I've got a lot to read...

[m.oreilly]

brewin, on Apr 8 2008, 08:48 PM, said:

Yeah, that's what I was going for. I've seen some that are way overdone.

I'm going to Washington, D.C. in June, so I'm trying to learn as much about photography as I can before then. I didn't even know what EV meant until today, so I've got a lot to read...

sweet. yeah, the ev...me either. man, i though i had a camera body lined up, but they are all out for a month or so. i can't wait to get going...

[brewin]

m.oreilly, on Apr 8 2008, 10:53 PM, said:

sweet. yeah, the ev...me either. man, i though i had a camera body lined up, but they are all out for a month or so. i can't wait to get going...

I love my cheapo Canon. With CHDK, it's like a $1000+ camera. I can do autobracketing, RAW, up to 1/64,000 s shutter speed, motion detection... it even has games and a text editor on it.

[m.oreilly]

dang! well, knowing me, it would be a brick if i tried altering the firmware

[brewin]

m.oreilly, on Apr 8 2008, 11:17 PM, said:

dang! well, knowing me, it would be a brick if i tried altering the firmware

That's the best thing, you can't brick it. You put it on the SD card and it gets loaded into memory when you turn the camera on. It doesn't overwrite the original firmware.

BTW, here are some examples of the ultra high shutter speed. And the flash is synced with it, which is amazing.

[banj0]

That's a great picture brew. Well done.

[m.oreilly]

wow

[talker]

And I thought my old Nikons with 1/1000 and 1/2000 was fast. 1/60,000 is insane. Thanks brewin, that is neat...talker.

[m.oreilly]

i just ordered my camera body! used, but from the place shoebappa recommended (keh cameras). i hope to find a lens soon, one that i can afford brew's results inspired me to the point that i will now have to get that beret, and grow that goatee ...oops, forgot the tripod...gotta call dag...