On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:48:31 +0200, in uk.rec.gardening you wrote:

~On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:19:40 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:
~
~On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:00:22 +0200, wrote:
~
~~On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:51:12 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:
~~
~~On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:17:16 +0200, wrote:
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~~dpreview.com is fantastic. I found it last year when looking to update
~~my ancient Canon S10 and found out loads of things I hadn't realised
~~about that model let alone the new offerings!
~~
~~It also told me of up and coming models which I might want to wait
~~for: I duly waited for two of them, tested them in shops (with my own
~~CF card so I could take the photos home and look properly!) and found
~~them both wanting. So I've ended up rather seriously poorer with a
~~model I hadn't even thought about originally. But then again I had a
~~really nice camera for a once in a lifetime trip to Japan, in a cheap
~~place to buy accessories
~~
~~So which camera did you buy for taking gardening photos?
~
~Canon 300D My dad said I have more money than sense, until I
~invited him to tell me how much his golf club subs were! He hasn't
~mentioned it since...
~
~All the Cokin filters from my ancient Olympus SLR fit it, including
~the close-up, so it got its first workout taking pics of the African
~violets on my desk! Followed by a trip round the garden snapping all
~sorts. I'd forgotten how nice it is to be able to play with the depth
~of field rather than hit a macro button and hope for the best...
~
~I shot rather too many photos at Trebah gardens in June. The gunneras
~were just perfect (the path goes under them!) and the candelabra
~primulas were in full bloom. And I am well pleased with the detail on
~the fiddleheads (unfurling fern fronds). Indigenous macro's not too
~bad either.
~
~It sounds good, now if only there was a download somewhere to enable
~the features they deliberately disabled :-)
~http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d

Quite! ;-) I haven't done it yet since it invalidates the warranty,
but I know someone who has, and he says it works very well indeed
(though I did download the current mod in case anything mysterious
ever happens to the website). Once I'm used to the current
functionality and I'm near to the warranty expiring then I'll bite.

Have still not memorised all the bells and whistles it *does* have!
I think I shall have to start putting some of the flower photos onto
the web as it really does a nice job and so far my only niggle is the
silly semi-hard case design.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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