Canon EOS 20D

[[Midknight]69er™]

Oh baby this camera ROCKS!!!!! A total improvement over the 10D. Not even the digital rebel can match this one. Here is the review:http://www.dpreview.com/articles/canoneos20d/
I was so close to picking this up when the Mrs needed/wanted a Van, not just any van it has to be a 2005 Honda Odyssey. With a pirice tag of 32k there goes my dream of ever owning a camera like the 20D

[[Monkey]69er™]

yeah shes a great camera.... the 20D was my promotion present to myself My Digital Rebel is at Canon undergoing repair...the damn thing up and died on me....(another reason to get a 20D), and Canon is also cleaning the CMOS sensor.. a few dust specs from changing lenses every 15 minutes...

20D so far so good...in bright light, shes damn fast...did some portraits (50mm f1.4) of the gf...ill try to post some soon.

[[Midknight]69er™]

Sigh.......... I am so envious of you Pat. No, not cause you have a girlfriend but because you got that awsome camera. I gues I will have to save my Christmas and birthday money. LOL!!!

[83R23RK R0807]

I thinking I might buy an eos 3, now that my elan 7e is toasty.

For those of you that have digital: Got buy a Wratten filter off eBay and prepair to take AMAZING photos of nature.

Wratten filters block out all visble light to humans, but do not block out IR light and todays cool digital cameras can detect infrared light. Foliage becomes a beautiful white color. And if you are using a filter that isnt completely infrared, foliage becomes hot pink! To test your camera for IR capabilities, look through the LCD screen and point a tv of stereo remote at it and the press any button, you will suprised to see a blue flashing light!!!!

some samples I found on the line

[[XL]69er™]

Sweet! Those pics are amazing.

I suppose a robot like yourself also has IR capabilities?

[[LZ]69er™]

Just tried that trick robo. Pretty neat. I wonder why its blue? All I got is a V1 though.


btw, did you have to make any adjustments to apeture/shutter speed to take those pics? Very surreal.

[83R23RK R0807]

XL; Indeed I have IR vision, but I hace to wear these goofy googles i made out of a two IR filters and a a rubber band! THat way it blocks out the visiable light and i only see IR.

LZ: I didnt take those pictures, but funny enough I talk to the guy that took them this morning and he recommend the V1 as the camera for IR shooting!! SO you are in luck. Depending on how many filter syou put on you may have to compansate buy opening up the aperature a bit. A tripod is definately you best friend for this type of photography.

There are a few filters you need to do IR. Wratten work, but also try a Hoya R72 instead of a wratten, in conjunction with a circular polarizer. THe more more filters you stack on, the cooler the pictures turn out!

If you are interested in selling your V1 let me know.

[[LZ]69er™]

Cool. thanks for the tips robo.

Not planning on selling anytime soon. Thought I might want a T-1 (picked one up for my sister). But after seeing it, its a bit underpowered for my taste. Looks pretty stylish and cool though.

Ill see if I can get a good price on those filters. Might look kinda cool to take the ir picks and fart with them in photoshop.

[83RZ3RK 94N9574]

look on ebay for filters

since you are using small digi filter sizes, you can go to

www.2filter.com

they are relatively cheap for sizes that fit digitals but only SLR lens filters a sheet load - filters for my f77 easily run into 200 a piece!

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[[Midknight]69er™]

Ha, Technology is a biotch baby. 40D is out now and that packs a punch.