New camera

**Rossluck** · 10th May 2007, 04:06 PM

I just bought a camera (Canon EOS 30D) so I should be able to start uploading a few photos soon. But what is fascinating about these new digitals is how much they pack into them. The last SLR I used was about 20 years ago, and that was a "state of the art" Nikon FA.

The most obvious thing is you don't need film, and you have around 450 shots with a 2GB falsh card. Now this is an easy thing to get used to (although I can't imagine how I'm going to process the flash card in my dark room: what chemicals do I have to buy?)

The next thing I've noticed is that when it's on fully automatic it produces pretty good shots, and if you tweak it by getting a light reading from a middle range area, and then lift and shoot, you can over-ride it without having to set aperture or shutter speed priority.

But the most impressive feature is the auto depth of field setting. The camera will actually try and achieve maximum depth of field by selecting a close and distant object and trying to have them both in focus. Those Japanese.

The only problem I have is that I'm not sure I have a program on my PC capable of reducing the size of an image so I can upload it. At the moment they're around 3.5 mbs.

I took a whole lot of photos on the weekend that I wanted to share. My FIL gave me his whole workshop of tools. He is 80 (last weekend) and has emphysema. He hasn't been in the shed for about ten years and it's full of dust and cobwebs and a wood lathe and chisels and a table saw and a bandsaw and Makita tools and so on. I loaded up my truck and brought the whole lot home. Perhaps the most interesting thing is about four wheelbarrow loads of turning blanks of a range of timbers. We're still sorting it out.

**Gingermick** · 10th May 2007, 04:31 PM

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...t=resize+photo

If you have MS office that comes with photo manager or you could get photoshop or

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...o+editors&meta=

hope that helps

**Big Shed** · 10th May 2007, 05:50 PM

You could get a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements for about $90 from memory, $125 with Premier Elements if you want to do video editing as well.

Great program, will do everything you can ever think of.

**jow104** · 10th May 2007, 05:51 PM

To reduce the picture size for uploading I always go to the RESIZE option in image software and reduce to picture down to a 6x4" @72dpi. and then use the export option (this is the email option in most software )

Pictures should then be under 100KBs.

Surely your camera came with some imaging software?

**Rossluck** · 10th May 2007, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by jow104

Surely your camera came with some imaging software?

Now that you mention it....

**keith53** · 10th May 2007, 06:52 PM

Rossluck,

You should be able to change the size of the photo file on the camera by changing the image quality. e.g. I've got a Fuji Finepix 7000 and if I set the image quality up to 12 megapixels, I get a huge file size. If I set it down to 1 megapixel, it considerably reduces the size of the file and Elements has no problem re-sizing the photo for upload to the board.

Good luck with the new toy.

**joe greiner** · 10th May 2007, 09:43 PM

For pics destined for uploading, I just set the camera to a coarser image and all is well; no blood, no sweat, no tears.

The film cost is hard to beat. But the savings is offset by battery cost. Better to use re-chargeables. The only chemical you need is a beer or two.

Semi-automatic colour balance is another nice feature. No need for filters for tungsten vs daylight vs fluoro, etc., especially fluoro that don't have a well-defined colour temperature.

Joe

**Harry72** · 10th May 2007, 10:20 PM

Ross your canon should've come with ACD photo programs and Digital Photo Professional 2.2, zoom browser.

**Stringy** · 10th May 2007, 10:28 PM

I don't worry about what size the photo is. Right klick on the photo you want to post and send it to mail recipient, when asked do you want to make photo smaller click Yes then copy and paste it back from outlook to a different folder, they are always under 100mb and consistent quality

.

**jow104** · 10th May 2007, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Stringy

I don't worry about what size the photo is. Right klick on the photo you want to post and send it to mail recipient, when asked do you want to make photo smaller click Yes then copy and paste it back from outlook to a different folder, they are always under 100mb and consistent quality

.

I've had a computer 8 years and I didn't know that!! thanks.

**Grunt** · 10th May 2007, 11:39 PM

Get the free Google Picassa program which is a photo browser that has the simplest image manipulation and fixer around. It's very good.

I would always take my photos at the highest quality. Otherways, one day you'll take a pearler of a picture and you won't be able to print it because it's of too low a quality.

Chris

**Peter57** · 11th May 2007, 02:42 PM

Ross,
I have a Canon 350D and there was a program included with it called Zoom Browser EX. It's found in the Canon utilities that were loaded on the machine with the Canon software. It has a function that both reduces the physical size and file size of the images. It's dead easy to use.
The attached file was 3.5Mb in it's original form. Resizing and reducing file size was done with the Zoombrowser EX program in about 30 seconds.

You may want to check your canon software and see if they provided you with a copy.

PM me if you have other questions about that software.

Cheers,
Peter

**scooter** · 11th May 2007, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Grunt

I would always take my photos at the highest quality. Otherways, one day you'll take a pearler of a picture and you won't be able to print it because it's of too low a quality.

Chris

Second Grunts words, I reckon with computer storage space so cheap, the go is to take high quality pics all the time then resize to post on the forums, email, or whatever.

**jow104** · 11th May 2007, 05:29 PM

Peter your photograph, is that an hairy lady laying in the grass at sunset?

**Peter57** · 11th May 2007, 06:50 PM

Nah,
just Mount Kembla at sunset. Good thing about digital cameras is that you never seem to run out of things to photograph.

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