This is going to be fun:

[koffiejunkie]

ldmelsa, I finally did it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2854525212_2fcc563fae_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/koffiejunkie/2854525212/)

[Pooky]

What did you do?

[bwana]

What did you do?I believe he bought film.

[koffiejunkie]

bought a Canon EOS film camera too :)

I figured I'd give it a try, they're very cheap these days. After a day shooting with one I understand why...

[Pooky]

Was it not fun? :)

[ldmelsa]

ldmelsa, I finally did it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/2854525212_2fcc563fae_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/koffiejunkie/2854525212/)

Cool.
The Rebel G has evaluative metering, which is going to come in handy with the slide film.

http://kenrockwell.com/canon/rebel-g.htm

[bwana]

Leave the antiques at home and use this? http://www.reflectiveimages.com/digitalvelvia.htm :D

[koffiejunkie]

Cool.
The Rebel G has evaluative metering, which is going to come in handy with the slide film.

From the first roll I put through it, I'm a little disappointed. Everything is overexposed. I thought maybe it's just the 1-hour shop that overcooked it, but I did a few tests - pointed all three cameras at the same thing (with similar field-of-view glass), in AV mode, and the rebel consistently gave me slower shutter times than the 40D and K1000 (which gave very similar results, most of the time). Strangely enough, in M mode, the metering is more accurate, but still off.

Something else that completely freaked me out, was when I loaded the film, it rolled off the entire roll, and shot backwards. I didn't realise this at first, thought it just took long to get itself sorted, but when it came to taking the film out, the "rewind" took about a second. So I wasn't thought it got stuck or something and had no idea how to get it out. I had to take the camera to the shop top open up - truly a humbling experience :)


Leave the antiques at home and use this? http://www.reflectiveimages.com/digitalvelvia.htm :D

I have that already. I figure I'll take my chance to fiddle with film while I can afford it and it is still available.

[ldmelsa]

if i were you i would just take the 40d and a mid range zoom
velvia is for carefully timed landscape photography
http://www.fatali.com/gallery/CanyonVoices/AspenGlowimg.jpghttp://www.fatali.com/gallery/MysteryPlateau/Reflectionsimg.jpg
http://www.fatali.com/index-frame.php

[koffiejunkie]

I'm going to have four days with nothing but waiting to do - seems like a good time to play around :)

[ldmelsa]

i remember something about spot metering your highlights & going +1.5 stops comp for velvia