Posted by Al Ingham

Today my Canon EOS 350D arrived in the mail.

A while ago when I got interested in photography and digital cameras were massively expensive, I asked for a film SLR camera for my birthday. A second hand Olympus OM10, which I still cherish to this day.

Since I went digital however, the film days have been over and the OM10 has been sitting on the shelf ever since.

This week I purchased the new DSLR and I fell in love as soon as it arrived. The mechanical chug as it takes the photo I missed so much from the days before digital point and shoot.

I debated for a while whether to go Canon or Nikon. Asking my photographic enthusist friends left a mixed bag, but weighted towards Nikon because they didn’t change their camera fittings, so all the old lenses still work with them. That doesn’t help me, as I don’t have lenses and they can be expensive, even second hand.
In the end the Canon won out.

Specs:

• 8 Megapixels
• Canon EF / EF-S lens mount
• 1x 18-55mm lens
• 1x 55-200mm lens
• Shooting modes:
  • Auto
  • Program AE (P)
  • Shutter priority AE (Tv)
  • Aperture priority AE (Av)
  • Manual (M)
  • Auto depth-of-field
  • Portrait
  • Landscape
  • Close-up
  • Sports
  • Night portrait
  • Flash off
• ISO: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600

See dpreview.com for more info.

So with that, I leave you to go and take some more photos and eventually get around to reading the manual!