![]() After months of learning to wait for the light, I finally got a half decent picture. In conclusion, I hadn’t a clue how to take a picture in a club environment and didn’t learn for months. I took thousands of images as I learned, found out the kit lens was horrible, tried to understand low light situations and discovered ISO 1600 was massively noisy. I knew absolutely nothing about how a camera worked back then, ISO, F stops, white balance, none of it meant anything to me.Īt the time I was watching a lot of live music and so decided that would be a great opportunity to take some amazing pictures with my new toy. I spent many, many hours and days lurking in online photography forums trying to learn how to use and control an SLR properly. ![]() Whatever that meant… My actual 350D kit in 2006… …a whole 1 day old and I had no idea how to use it I was now a serious photographer, this was going to solve all of my problems caused by only having a lowly compact Ixus 500 and more than that, I had access to RAW files. This was far too tempting to a young university student such as myself and just one year later in February of 2006, I spent the last of my student loan on a 350D – my first “real” camera. Suddenly, photography had become accessible to people on a whole range of incomes. Simultaneously, retailers began selling off their stock of 300D’s for bargain basement prices. On release the 350D was approximately £200 cheaper than the 300D had been and at around £600 you could pick up the kit which gave you everything you needed to get going, even though the 18-55mm kit lens was appalling. The 350D raised the bar yet again for what people could expect from an entry level camera, whilst simultaneously lowering the price to an even more affordable level. No longer was digital SLR photography the domain of professionals and those with deep pockets. Its predecessor, the 300D had changed the market and rate of adoption for “serious amateur” digital photography by offering a body that was capable, produced great results and above all was affordable to most who wanted one. About Me | Contact | Mastodon | privacy policy n/a | license: CC bY-NC 4.Launched in February 2005, the Canon 350D marked another significant step forward in the rapidly evolving digital SLR landscape. And with a cheap camera, I don't have to worry too much about the rain (or getting mugged). I want to look into picturing Dublin in black and white. Now I'm excited to see what else this lens can do. The lines are visibly less jagged, and there is almost no chromatic aberration (the violet-purple fringes at the end from diffraction of light). Here's the picture from the lens (full resolution)Īnd though it looks sharp, yet mediocre, consider this full zoomed crop: It is one of the old german lenses, they are very very light, have an incredibly simple design and work great. I tested the Zebra lens (see the picture? see the zebra stripes?), because I really like it, and it's pretty nice to look at. The camera is in perfect working condition, sensor, mirror, everything is clean. ![]() I checked on Ebay, I can get that money back when I sell the camera and the filters. Plus, I got three or so camera protection bags. And they're all Hoya or Cokin, which is pretty decent stuff. A bag (granted it is old, but it is in perfectly usable condition), a unipod (which is a tripod with just one leg), a very small tripod (which is essentially just three stubs to place the camera on the ground), and lots of filters. So I hoarded until my pockets were empty.Īlong with the camera, I got a lot of stuff. Canon (and Olympus) on the other hand, are great, because they can accommodate pretty much every lens out there. Nikon cameras suck in that they cannot use pretty much any other lens system. I had two vintage lenses, a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm and a Pentacon 1.8, both decent lenses, but no way to use them on the Nikon I own. I move from hobby to hobby, eventually coming back to it full time. I haven't taken a single photograph in the past 6 or so months. I got a cheap used canon 350d camera off Ebay, and with some vintage lenses, it gives pretty good results!
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