Trying out the new camera

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Originally uploaded by Prateek Dayal

Tried out the new EOS400D camera and the sigma 70-300mm lens yesterday at ranganathittu bird sanctuary near Mysore. Some shots came out well although a DSLR is still very very baffling to me compared to a point and shoot. I think a long way to go before I can take great pictures .. the kinds that originally inspired me to buy a DSLR :)

Got it!

I finally got the following gear:

Canon EOS400D Kit
Sigma 70-300mm DG Macro Lens
2 GB Sandisk Compact Flash Card
A couple of UV filers, bags etc

I got the stuff from Jayesh, Chikpet, Bangalore. Must say a nice enthu guy :).
Will click some pictures soon and post them somewhere. I plan to start a photoblog or start tagging these posts with soemthing so that I can keep a track of them in future :)

Ubuntu !

So I finally installed ubuntu on my laptop and quite a few softwares too. I have installed 7.04 and the only issue was in getting the wireless working. I have Dell Inspiron 2200 and have wireless mini pci 1370 b/g adapter. I followed the instructions here finally and it was up and working. I think the main thing is to use the driver files for ndiswrapper from the link given in this forum post.

Feels good to be running linux again!

Photography 201

hi,

I think I am kind of through with photography 101. But then that is a personal feeling. I often feel the need for much better zoom and also want to try out with a digital SLR. I have been reading a lot lately about different cameras and lenses etc and I think this would be the gear that I would be buying soon. May be not all of it at once but over some period of time

1. Canon EOS400D kit (with 18-55mm lens)
2. 2 GB Extreme CF Card
3. A decent tripod, camera bag, some filters may be
4. 70-300m Tamron Telephoto Macro lens

Right now I am just trying to figure out the best deals and also work out funds for the gear. I am getting a very good deal on 350D but then I am not sure if I "don't" wanna buy a 400D. Let me see !

Hello Fiesty

Right now I am installing Fiesty Fawn on my laptop and blogging from the same machine. I hope to get back into some linux action again. I suddenly have this itch to be all geeky again and this will be the first stuff. Second or third should be to get a domain name and start a website with a technical blog.

Lets see how the whole experiment goes.

PS: Can someone lend me a DVD writer so that I can backup my second windows partition and make it /home ? :)