Comments on: New Gadgets

By: cmot

cmot — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:32:24 +0000

Hmm. I’ve not worked with an EOS 400D/450D. Not sure if it’s just me or if it’s the camera — I use a 40D with glasses, without issues. (and if your correction isn’t too strong you can correct the viewfinder of the 40D)

While I’m not planning on investing heavily on lenses (although replacing the old unstabilised 100-300 4.5-5.6 with, maybe, the 70-300 IS is tempting because I usually don’t use tripods, and it would close the gap to the 17-85 lens. Oh, well, maybe resistance is not possible anymore once the 18-200 is out…) Looking at the L series long zooms is mouthwatering but only until I look at the price tag I couldn’t resist on the other end, though, and am very happy with the Tokina 11-16mm 2.8 lens.

By: Enrico Zini

Enrico Zini — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:45:06 +0000

Try the last qtopia image: that gives you a decent enough working phone you can start to consider using as a primary phone.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:36:58 +0000

Congrats on the new tech! My only tip is to look for a flickr group in your area. My father does photography and there’s a group in his town that meets up fairly often. Model shoots, museums, old buildings, etc. If anything you’ll meet people who can point you to side jobs if you decide to get that serious about it. Good luck!

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By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:52:21 +0000

Congratulations on the new toys/gadgets. I have a Canon Rebel XTi (also known as a 400) and am very happy with it. I also have just recently gotten back into photography after a long hiatus and am enjoying the Canon immensely. I am still looking at the professional full frame models but cannot justify, or afford, the price yet. I am now looking to increasing my selection of lenses for the camera with emphasis on lenses that will work with a full frame camera. I also got contacts just for photography with regular glasses for most other times. If you find an online photography club I would appreciate hearing about it since the idea of doing photography assignments, at least thse that interest me, is something that I really should do.

As for your Freerunner I was planning on purchasing one as well when they came out but ran across a situation where a faster lens, particularly the Canon EF 70 -200 f2.8L USM, was badly needed. I am going to need that lens for a number of things (shooting as ISO 1600 at 4.5-5.6, which was the fastest that the lens could do, and still not getting sufficient exposure times is not acceptable.) so it s still a higher priority. But as soon as I have the lens I am going to be looking at the camera. The builtin GPS will also help with Open Street Map mapping activities.

Waiting a little while will also allow me to take advantage of a little more development for having the complete Debian stack, hopefully Lenny by then although I would be very surprised if Lenny is not released by the new year, on the phone.

Have fun with the camera and the phone. Both are very worthy gadgets and should lead to plenty of interesting things. And the sooner that the Freerunner is suitable for the average consumer the better since it will mean that there is a truly open source phone available to everyone that does not lock in the user to a proprietary application stack. Have fun and good luck.