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Jonathan Wilson writes:
One thing I do miss is that with my G2 if it could not get a good focus it would still take a photo, the 300D however wont take any photo if it cannot focus or find a good focus lock. Hi Jonathan, I have both the G2 and 300D as well. I've found the Rebel to be quite a shooting-priority camera. What mode are you in when you find it won't take a photo due to lack of focus lock? If it's green mode or one of the "creative zone" modes, try P program mode instead. Best Regards, -- Todd H. http://www.toddh.net/ |
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message . ..
One thing I do miss is that with my G2 if it could not get a good focus it would still take a photo, the 300D however wont take any photo if it cannot focus or find a good focus lock. There have been a couple of times where I'd have prefered an out of focus shot to no shot while shooting some trouble kicking of where the police were involved afterwards as an aprocimate photo would have given a record of the event, no photo gave none! This might not apply to the situation that you've described, but setting the lens to manual focus the camera will allow you to take pictures without focus lock. |
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In article , Jonathan Wilson
writes The big difference between the 300D and say the film equivilent is that from standby or off it takes about 1/2 to 2 seconds to "power on" and with the stand by mode you have to double press the shutter button... once to kick it out of stand by, and the second press to take the shot... it would have been nice if pressing the shutter button pulled the camera out of standby and if the button was still pressed, when it was fully out of stand by, it would focus and shoot all in the one "long" press... I've got used to holding the camera pointing down with a quick press then puting it to my eye and pressing to take the shot, but it is a case of guessing something might happen then going for it... in busyish situations i will half press the shutter often to keep the camera live as I cannot be bothered to go into the settings and change the power off depending on where and what I wish to shoot. It seems bizarre to me that you should spend so much time writing about this issue, but than saying you can't be bothered to go into the menu to change the awake time. From my experience in changing the time on my 10D, you could have done it in about 5 seconds, a fraction of the time to type the above. It is though good to see that Canon have improved the wake-up time dramatically on the 20D. Not quite enough to be worth upgrading - but nice to think that the next time I do upgrade the camera will wake up instantly. David -- David Littlewood |
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In article , Jonathan Wilson
writes The big difference between the 300D and say the film equivilent is that from standby or off it takes about 1/2 to 2 seconds to "power on" and with the stand by mode you have to double press the shutter button... once to kick it out of stand by, and the second press to take the shot... it would have been nice if pressing the shutter button pulled the camera out of standby and if the button was still pressed, when it was fully out of stand by, it would focus and shoot all in the one "long" press... I've got used to holding the camera pointing down with a quick press then puting it to my eye and pressing to take the shot, but it is a case of guessing something might happen then going for it... in busyish situations i will half press the shutter often to keep the camera live as I cannot be bothered to go into the settings and change the power off depending on where and what I wish to shoot. It seems bizarre to me that you should spend so much time writing about this issue, but than saying you can't be bothered to go into the menu to change the awake time. From my experience in changing the time on my 10D, you could have done it in about 5 seconds, a fraction of the time to type the above. It is though good to see that Canon have improved the wake-up time dramatically on the 20D. Not quite enough to be worth upgrading - but nice to think that the next time I do upgrade the camera will wake up instantly. David -- David Littlewood |
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"Susan Phillips" wrote in message ...
Thank you so much. The Rebel is the camera that I really wanted, but, didn't want to get caught up in the media hype since they are so popular now. I have another question for those of you who own one. Is there a significant shutter lag with this camera? I have a Sony Cybershot 3.3 megapixels and the shutter lag is very long. By the time I get the shot taken, the action in the picture is over. This is very annoying when you are photographing little children. Because they do not do the same cute thing twice! You need a DSLR to shoot kids digitally. Even then, you'll find nothing is as fast as they are. The 300D is the 2nd slowest DSLR at ..142 secs, the Fuji S2 is the slowest. But all the affordable DSLRs ($8000) fall within 4/100th's of a sec from one another (except the S2 which is out to lunch at .162 secs), so no big deal. |
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