An Honor and a Challenge
One of my sisters is getting married in August and has asked me to photograph her wedding. Wow! I was honored to be asked to do this and accepted the task. It wasn't until after the acceptance that I started thinking about my camera and other equipment.I currently own a Canon PowerShot G2. It is a great little digital camera coming in at 4 megapixels and has some nifty features. I have shot thousands of pictures for personal use with it and am generally happy with its performance. However, I'm considering stepping up to the Canon EOS Rebel for the task of shooting my sister's wedding. I have two challenges with this:
- Price and purchase of the camera.
- Become proficient with it by August.
I have found some excellent deals online and can get a good setup (camera, various lenses, additional storage chips, bags, tripod, etc.) for around $1000 to $1200, depending on a few minor differences. Because my wonderful wifey thinks that our current camera is fine and that I don't need any more 'toys', my challenge is to come up with the cash for this little gem outside of my normal streams of income. So... $1200 goal by June 15th at the latest should give me time to become proficient with the camera - that is my challenge.
Running total so far? I have 20 bucks, leaving me a balance of $1,180. I'm on my way!!
posted by Bonzai @ 10:08 AM
4 Comments:
Frank has a EOS Rebel, and I have messed around with it a few time when he was too lazy to take his own pictures, and it is a solid piece of equipment. Out of curiousity, what kind of options are you hoping to gain out of the newer camera? I had found that Frank uses his at about 25% of its usefulness, but the additions of things like camera lenses, and external flashes makes it a bit more versatile...
I'm looking at the Digital Rebel XT. It does what the others do but has some added features such as:
- 8 megapixal imaging
- 3 FPS shooting (up to 14)
- It's lighter than other Rebels
This isn't a full list of the features as there are other enhancements but these are the ones that have my attention. The 8 MP images will come in handy for large portrait prints and easy blow-ups when you don't get the right lens on the camera ;-) The 3 frames per second shooting comes in handy when shooting large family groups as there is invariably that one person that has his/her eyes closed in the shot. It also helps a bit so you don't miss that "perfect" moment. And the weight thing isn't so much of an issue as much as it is a convenience.
I like the SLR cameras because I miss the contol I used to have with my film camera. The XT seems to give me back most, if not all, of that control. Have you used any of the competitive SLRs on the market?
Franks is an older model of the EOS 10D. When I used it, I was reminiscing about the old 35 MM camera's and what options I missed from it, that I didn't have on my Sony Cybershot I got at home, that his camera did. One this was to be able to control the aperature, and the other was to have more iso setting besides 100-200-400. Both of those things allowed me to get much better exposures. To have shutter control was a bonus too, but most of the time, when using flashes, the shutter tends to be fixed at 1/125 sec. Franks camera had those options, and for that I dug it. hen you mentiond about 8MP, yeah, if your doing anyhting beyond 8x10, ya gotta have that. Having the 3 FPS, that juts plain kicks ass. Id buy it just for that.
It's a nifty little camera, that's for sure. I think it's also the "right" camera for my needs. I will confess that I haven't done a ton of research on the XT's competitors in the arena, but I do have a familiarity with Canon that goes back some time.
It's sort of funny because there were a couple of 4 and 5 letter words that were not allowed in my wife's house as she was growing up, primarily because her father worked for Eastman-Kodak. The "C-word" was "Canon" and the "F-word" was Fuji. I swear I can see a grimace in the face of her father on each occasion that I am taking pictures with my G2. Hehee... And it was probably salt in the wound when his other daughter went out and bought the same camera on my recommendation. Might explain why I'm not as popular as I used to be at the family Christmas party.
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