new camera
Its only taken me about 18 moonths, but I have finally gotten off my ass and bought a Canon EOS 350D SLR Digital Camera and I must say it rocks! I’ve already taken several hundred photo’s with it and am pleasently impressed with it. It replaced my previous Pentax film SLR, and its been oh so worth it.
I’m an amateur photographer but I hope to increase my photographic skills. I’m not one to edit my digital SLR pics with the likes of The Gimp (the opensource linux equivalent to Photoshop in the win32 world) which happens to be the rage these days after extensively looking at flickr so I like to ensure my photo’s are well thought out and taken appropriately.
The 350D kit I bought came with the standard 18-55 lense as well as a 90-300 lense, case, cf card and a bunch of other things for the price of what was normally the body & the 18-55 lense, so I was rather pleased with that. Since then I realised that one can consume a 512Mb cfcard *very* damn quickly when pics are taken @ 3456×2304 resolution so I picked up a 2Gb sandisk2 cfcard which has been pretty cool.
Most of my pics are in my own personal gallery so most of you won’t see them but I have set up an underutilised flickr account which I might start using more in the future.. of course when my photo’s become worthwhile uploading 
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