As said in a previous post, I bought me finally a digital reflex photo camera. After years with a little digital box, I was really looking forward to this moment. I choose the Canon Rebel Xti or EOS 400D (European name) after several weeks of looking around and reading many websites.
I was first looking at Nikon but … I got convinced for Canon. Since I have no Nikon I can’t compare but let’s say that today I’m very happy with my Canon. Since all reviews were equal saying, don’t buy the kit since the lens is really a low cost one, I bought the naked body and opted for a all purpose zoom from Tamron, the 18-200 IF Macro etc etc etc… Why not the 18 – 250 you might ask …. reviews said the last 50 mm added were really no good, to much chromatic distortion …
It’s now about 6 weeks that I started to shoot like a wildman and time for a first impression. Was it easy ? Nope. Not at all. I did several years argentique shooting with an Olympus reflex. If you ever do the step, be prepared to be disappointed. It isn’t at all the same handling and way less nice results in the beginning. I even wondered if the body or the lens were faulty. Now I know they aren’t and the one that was faulty was me. Naive me thinking you could work equally on digital media. What I describe here can be seen as noob problems but hey, none are related in the manuals.
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What happened ?
At first I shot most in the preset modes and in the standard jpeg saving. Results were let’s say satisfactory. 1000$ investment for images not really that more special that the little Olympus Z4000 I have. OK it is the preset and we know that these monsters need to be used in the special settings etc… after a week or so I switched to RAW and did the first images in TV mode (speed priority, aperture adapting)… oooohhhh boeee yek horrible. Under exposed, completely blurred, colors from another age …. clearly nil. Trying not to be disappointed, I ran out in the garden again and started again, wide angle, mid zoom, full zoom, low speed, high speed…. back downloading and ….. pfffff horrible results.
I won’t show you any, I deleted them all now… but imagine you take a snap by accidently pushing the button and you get no result … that’s about the level.
I started to get a little nervous 
not to say angry (my wife running of 
) what was going wrong here ? I re read the micro manual and didn’t find a real answer. Well if Tv doesn’t work, let’s try the other options….. in short same result or I should say bad results.
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