At 11:42 PM -0400 7/23/11, Russ wrote:
Hi Gang...........
Well it finally happened.
I got robbed.
Terrible. Makes one sick to the stomach,
especially if someone comes into the house.
That happened to me last winter - 2 30D bodies, a
Metz and a Canon flash, long zoom, short zoom,
quickrelease adapters - out of the car on a 10°
night.
They had to walk 50 feet away from the street up
my driveway to get to my car...
So I went big. Bought a 7D on eBay for $1300
(had 8000 actuations), a Really Right Stuff L
bracket for the quickrelease head (no longer have
to drop the ball head into the side slot), a new
Metz flash, long zoom and short zoom used from
B&H.
I don't like being restricted to a single camera
body. Don't much care for having to change
lenses. But the new body takes video and has
this miraculous new feature of removing dust from
the sensor whenever one turns it off or on. That
really works.
I have not had to spot an image since.
The files are huge, 52M tiffs. 800 ISO is pretty
noise-free, the old bodies were unusable after
200 ISO. The Metz doesn't require a transmitter
adapter because it's all built in to the Canon.
Recently I found I should have bought a Canon
flash, however, because the Metz won't dial down
from the camera body.
So there's my experience, Russ.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
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