Canon EOS 300D Voted Most Important Product of 2003

#1 sailesh

I actually got a pile of photography books of xmas:
Faces: The Creative Process Behind Great Portraits
First Light: A Landscape Photographer's Art
Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography
The Making of Landscape Photographs
...and a few other things - including a few hours in the snow to take photographs (see the gallery

These are great books and would recommend any of them.

regards
Sailesh (panchals)

1:14 pm - Wednesday, January 7, 2004

#2 Bill

I cannot vote for more than once. Got software, PhotoshopCS upgrade and new printer, Epson 2200.

Bill

2:43 pm - Wednesday, January 7, 2004

#3 Collin French

Lucky you Bill!

I didn't even get fruit and nuts :(

lol

2:51 pm - Wednesday, January 7, 2004

#4 Mike Strock

I got Faces as well, and I got a wireless router. No other photo stuff, although the Digital Rebel was on my wish list.

3:02 pm - Wednesday, January 7, 2004

#5 Mark Goldstein

How are you finding the Epson 2200 printer Bill?

3:46 pm - Wednesday, January 7, 2004

#6 Bob

I am a complete rookie here but I'll tell you what I got for Christmas.... a Fujifilm Finepix S5000 digital camera. I've already taken almost 500 pix and some are actually keepers. I can't believe that I get this many features for so little money.

I added a wide angle for $40 and I'm having a blast.

I just hope that everyone else is as happy with their gifts!

6:49 am - Thursday, January 8, 2004

#7 Mark Goldstein

Don't forget to add a review of the S5000 here Bob

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=47&sort=7&cat=14&page=1

And if you haven't already signed-up, then register for the Gallery and post some of your photos:

http://www.photographyblog.com/gallery/index.php

10:34 am - Thursday, January 8, 2004

#8 Bill

Ok I will come clean since my birthday is in February this is like my Christmas/Birthday gift! ))

The only time I really had a chance to use the printer, is when I open the boxed and tested it if it works properly. I did not want to start printing my photos until I bought a extra set of printer inks and answer the question will it work with third party papers. I had problems right out of the box. My prints from my new toy, sorry new printer, the colors were way off and skin tones had a greens tint. Found a great resource on the web http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7_print/ps7_print_mac.htm and then found out I was double profiling my printer. Follow the instructions and problem disappeared with the first print, that has been the only problem. Bought some third party paper, Ilford at the same time I bought an extra set of inks. I used Ilford's supplied icc profiles from their website and the prints were excellent. I will get around profiling the paper using my software to see if I can do better than Ilford, but right now I doubt it. Have not have a chance to print B/W photos but I did buy the Enhanced Matte ink, which I am surprised does not come with the printer. Right now comparing prints to my S9000, the inks and paper are cheaper and have the same wow factor and the S9000 printer prints faster. Have not printed much from it yet to busy with other things.

2:48 pm - Thursday, January 8, 2004

#9 Mark Goldstein

The Epson 2100/2200 has just been reduced in price at several UK shops. Jessops are selling it for £499 and Dabs for £448! That either means that there is a lot of stock around or they are trying to offload them before a new printer is launched. Maybe an A3 version of the R800 is on the way? That's just idle gossip by me, by the way

The canon S9000 can now be bought for as little as £199 at PCWorld of all places. Pretty amazing price for an A3 photo printer, even if it isn't the latest generation model.

Bill - I found that the light magenta and light cyan inks were the quickest to run out, so stock up on those.

3:01 pm - Thursday, January 8, 2004