egproductions
09-06-2006, 11:37 AM
So I went to Israel for my sisters wedding with my girlfriend and came back from vacation with my fiancee. It was a really incredible time over there (couldn't even tell there was a war going on) Below are pictures that both me and my fiancee took.
XT Review:
This was my first time really using the camera and it is my first digital SLR (My previous camera was a ricoh 35mm SLR which I still love) The camera is very easy to use and has tons of features whihc are easy to access when you read through the manual once. The lens I used is the noraml 18-55mm (27-83mm 35 equive) that comes with the camera.
Pros:
The lens is decently wide
easy to use even with one hand
bulb shutter setting with counter up to 1000 seconds
nice size sensor
built in flash works nicely (if you like that sorta thing)
cons:
lens feels cheap (the focus ring)
lens needs more length on the tele side
lens is slow (3.5)
I wish that the shutter speed setting would go beyond 30 seconds before it goes to bulb but that becasue i like long exposure photography
the lowest ISO speed is 100 however if you think of the camera as a 6 mega pixel camera instead of 8 than you can resize your photos later and make the grain smaller as well to be more like ISO 50
My specific camera is having toruble shooting RAW + JPEG and just writes two JPEGs instead.
All the pictures below were shot RAW an then converted to JPEG without any color adjustments.
1.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520(6).jpg
2.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520(8).jpg
3.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520-%2520Ruins%2520in%2520Old%2520City.jpg
4.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/Apartment%2520with%2520a%2520View%2520(1).jpg
5.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/Apartment%2520with%2520a%2520View%2520(2).jpg
6.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%2026%20-%20Kotel.jpg
7.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%2029%20-%20Ice%20Bar%20(10).jpg
8.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%252026%2520-%2520Kotel%2520(5).jpg
9.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%252026%2520-%2520Kotel%2520(6).jpg
XT Review:
This was my first time really using the camera and it is my first digital SLR (My previous camera was a ricoh 35mm SLR which I still love) The camera is very easy to use and has tons of features whihc are easy to access when you read through the manual once. The lens I used is the noraml 18-55mm (27-83mm 35 equive) that comes with the camera.
Pros:
The lens is decently wide
easy to use even with one hand
bulb shutter setting with counter up to 1000 seconds
nice size sensor
built in flash works nicely (if you like that sorta thing)
cons:
lens feels cheap (the focus ring)
lens needs more length on the tele side
lens is slow (3.5)
I wish that the shutter speed setting would go beyond 30 seconds before it goes to bulb but that becasue i like long exposure photography
the lowest ISO speed is 100 however if you think of the camera as a 6 mega pixel camera instead of 8 than you can resize your photos later and make the grain smaller as well to be more like ISO 50
My specific camera is having toruble shooting RAW + JPEG and just writes two JPEGs instead.
All the pictures below were shot RAW an then converted to JPEG without any color adjustments.
1.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520(6).jpg
2.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520(8).jpg
3.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/2%2520Sheva%2520Brachot%2520%25232%2520-%2520Ruins%2520in%2520Old%2520City.jpg
4.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/Apartment%2520with%2520a%2520View%2520(1).jpg
5.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/Apartment%2520with%2520a%2520View%2520(2).jpg
6.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%2026%20-%20Kotel.jpg
7.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%2029%20-%20Ice%20Bar%20(10).jpg
8.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%252026%2520-%2520Kotel%2520(5).jpg
9.
http://eden.rutgers.edu/~egabor/Israel/Vacation/August%252026%2520-%2520Kotel%2520(6).jpg