20th Jan
After sleeping in until almost midday, Kate and I decided to head out for brekky and ended up at the Lake for some photos.
It was the first time out with the 400D and initial impressions = extremely impressed. There’s really no other way to say it. Everything the 300D did, the 400D does it WAY better. There’s no crazy buffer time, no waiting for it to write a burst to the card, no lengthy delays between switching it on or previewing photos or navigating the menus. It just does it. Exactly what you want and immediately.
Overall, its a breeze to use. You can point, change your settings to suit and snap 10 shots without the camera having a coronary or buckling under what you’ve just asked itself to do. The 300D took a burst of images like you were asking it to donate a kidney. It would think, wait around, consider its options and when it realised there was no other option, it would reluctantly hand it over. The 400D reaches into its abdomen and pulls out that kidney before you’ve finished asking the question. It really is that night and day.
Unfortunately, Mother Nature has decided to grace us with yet another hot, humid, uncomfortably humid, sticky humid (and did I mention humid! day?) overcast day, so the options weren’t great. However, my passion for macro photography came out on such a day. While I had strapped the 75-300 on with the intention of grabbing some shots of birds and boats, with the exception of a lone Seagull and Pelican (both of which were a little shy) there was really nothing happening of merit.
I did however, figure out that the 75-300 works equally well as a macro lens when used from a small (1.5-2m) distance from your subject.
Can’t wait to grab this macro lens this week…
Paul said,
January 21, 2008 @ 9:51 am
The speed of the 400d really impressed me too after the 300d, makes life so much easier.
ScottyB said,
January 21, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
Sure does Paul
Can’t believe I didn’t make the change sooner! All that procrastination when I could have been out snapping for months!
Katie said,
January 21, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
I cannot stress how happy I am that you have bought the camera and you love it!!! ScottyB is back eh! It really is nice to see you out doing what you love most. And better that I can spend it with you
Wuv you!
By the way, today is month number 14
ScottyB said,
January 22, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
Yeah sooo happy to finally have it.. can’t stress how much I’ve missed it!!
Happy 14 months for yesterday baby! Wuv ya! x