Suba wrote:
Of course, I had to add an 'L' bracket too.... a word of warning - it is VERY difficult to open the rubber flap on the side of the 400D/XTi with the current RRS bracket - NOT good.....
The same goes for the Kirk L-bracket, which I have for my 350D/XT. Using a toothpick or something similar works well. L-brackets are definitely worth it.
To be honest, I use a card reader for downloading and I ended up getting an RC1 to put on the Optech strap so I can use this instead of the standard wired remote so it isn't quite as annoying as it could have been.
My other constant companion to my base grip as well the 'L' bracket is the Canon 'E1' handstrap
Does the back lcd ever shut off, without the sensor being covered, seems like it would be distracting if you had the camera sitting on your lap in a dark place?
Spydweb wrote:
Does the back lcd ever shut off, without the sensor being covered, seems like it would be distracting if you had the camera sitting on your lap in a dark place?
The back LCD most certainly does shut off. This it does in one of two ways. Firstly, you can press the Disp button to switch it off entirely. Secondly, if the sensor on the back of the camera is within about 7cm or so of your clothing/body, then the LCD will also shut off.
Can it be, that Canon no loger gives a free 1/4 stop with ISO sensivity? Becasue 350D as well as most other Canon DSLRs have for example instead of ISO 100, ISO 125, instead of ISO 1600, they have ISO 2000. And still lower noise then the competiton - that's really sweet :P .
Well I've had the 400D now for 3 days. Did not have the heart to sell 200 1.8 and 105-280. So, got the 400D. The camera is small and a bit difficult with these lenses. But with smaller lenses more manageable. May get a battery grip...Yesterday took about 200 photos. Twice it overexposed by ?2-3 f stops?? So took another photo without doing anything to camera and was much better?? Maybe I accidentally touched some button... A lot of the time I was underexposing by 0.7fstop. Decided if the LCD screen is fairly accurate to do bracketing. Today a picture underexposed by 2 f stops was much better...Quite happy with it so far.
Hmmm, im still not convinced by the grip. I am going to buy the camera on it's own and then see if i need it, the whole point of buying the camera is too have a really small travel camera.
kiwis fly wrote:
Yesterday took about 200 photos. Twice it overexposed by ?2-3 f stops?? So took another photo without doing anything to camera and was much better?? Maybe I accidentally touched some button...
I have discovered that it is quite easy for me to inadvertently press the exposure lock button with my thumb. If the same thing happened to you, that might explain the serious overexposure.
chris78cpr wrote:
Hmmm, im still not convinced by the grip. I am going to buy the camera on it's own and then see if i need it, the whole point of buying the camera is too have a really small travel camera.
This is what I did, but ended up buying the grip, and now never take it off. With decent glass this is a great little camera. Put cheap glass on it and it's as crap as all the rest (of course).
The anti dust systems continues to serve me very well. Still no dust visible on any shots I have looked at (at 100%), even after so many lens changes that I have lost cound a long time ago. I was traveling for 2 weeks this month, and had to change lenses on open moving vehicles (i.e. read dust and wind) and still have no visible dust. When Canon bring start shipping this on a full frame system, I will change my 1Ds2, because using that in the same conditions meant hours of PP to get rid of the dust, where none was present on the 400D. Well done Canon.
witwald wrote:
I have discovered that it is quite easy for me to inadvertently press the exposure lock button with my thumb. If the same thing happened to you, that might explain the serious overexposure.
Thank You.
This camera definitely gives better colour than Fuji professional print film. The second picture here I also got printed, but better colour in actual photo.
