Thread: My son's new camera

Great shots!!!

I love that Brisbane night scene. It makes you wish he'd had a tripod. The clouds are great. Keep goin'.

Nice shots. I have been tossing up a 500D for a while. Still have a EOS500 35mm that takes great shots, but no digital convenience. Tell the young un' to have a good trip.

oz

Nice night shots there, he did well.

Originally Posted by ozhunter

Nice shots. I have been tossing up a 500D for a while. Still have a EOS500 35mm that takes great shots, but no digital convenience. Tell the young un' to have a good trip.

oz

Oz, the Canons are very good digital SLRs, I have the 450D and have been very happy with it.

Very nice shots. Great pictures

Neil,

Great shots considering you didn't have a tripod. Maybe photography is another talent you need to nurture

Originally Posted by MajorPanic

Neil,

Great shots considering you didn't have a tripod. Maybe photography is another talent you need to nurture

He seems to do well at whatever he does. He has an IQ >180 (and knows it) and has just finished his full time degree in IT whilst working full time at an IT company , and topped his class . All this whilst living in a share house supporting and looking after himself in Brisbane. He also saved enough money to travel to USA and NZ on holidays for 6 weeks just after Xmas.

He was offered jobs at other companies after graduating, so his current employer offered him $65K + 2% of company profits (last year ~$2M) to stay - not bad for his first year out

Pretty proud of him

You obviously have a talent in understanding what makes a good image. I have been involved in photography ( another hobby) with photo clubs for many years, and the competition winners often had the most basic cameras.

Having said that, the 450D is an excellent camera that not only has very low noise from its sensor which helps in low light situations (like all Canon CMOS sensors), but is also well suited to action shots.

I think you can look forward to great photos from your sons's travels and I can't resist passing on a recommendation to always shoot with the maximum quality settings (largest file size.) Memory cards are cheap and shooting at anything less than the max defeats the whole purpose of a decent camera. Reduced quality images simply means that they will now be the same as a much cheaper camera.