Does anyone know why the black Canon Rebel XT is running around $65.00 more
than the silver version?
The Canon BG-E3 Vertical Grip/Battery Holder for EOS Digital Rebel XT looks
like it is black.  It would visually blend better with the black body.  But,

I'm looking at one for the wife. I know Contax is dead but I find it
esthetics interesting.
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"The condition of civil affairs in Texas is anomalous,

Hey, anyone see the newest Consumer Reports ?  Looks like HP tops the charts
for Inkjet printing.  5 out of the top 6 are HP.  The bottom ones are all
Epson.  lol...  Canon just below the HP ones.
Steve m..

Why does a "grown man" collect care bears and play with legos?

What lenses are compatible with the 20D?
Is it possible to use 'EF', 'EF-S' and 'L' lenses?

I've run into some problems with EXIF data that don't seem to have a
solution. Specifically...
When you rotate an image in-camera, the image isn't actually rotated (at
least in some cameras). Instead, the EXIF "orientation" tag is set to

sleep on the

My wife and I  want to buy at least a 3 mp digital camera for our  new
15 year old daughter (we will adopt her hopefully).  She will visit us
soon and she is very creative and really interested in digital
photography.  She needs something small she can carry around easily

Can people recommend a reliable web store that doesn't try to bait and
switch you... I've heard good things about http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
Any others? Thanks.

My wife is looking at the new Canon SD-500 7 MP for her first
digital camera. She's not interested in manual settings. I've
checked out a couple of professional reviews.  They're pretty
favorable, except they talk about image quality being less than

I was recently given a couple of links to some freeware resizing
software which automatically resizes images to give the best results
for sending as email attachments or web use.
Unfortunately the program got accidently deleted and I would therefore

Hey folks -
I was looking at used MF equipment at my local camera store yesterday
and the salesperson started giving me a strong pitch on the Canon 10D,
which he said was better than a hasselblad in terms of quality. What

I raised this subject in a thread "Pentax *istD & Lexar WA technology -
any experience?". (No responses!) I wondered why my Pentax was only
writing to a Lexar 80x WA card at 2MB per second, although the card
supports 12MB per second even without Write Acceleration technology,

By reading the press and searching into this forum history I got a fact:
SLR systems are faster: meaning they have shorter shutter lag.
So far I have had a few camera the latest being a coolpix SQ, the
shutter lag is so long that I am considering investing into an SLR

I took a lot of pics during the Rotterdam marathon. For that I used my Canon
EOS Digital Rebel XT and my 70-200 f:208 USM lens.
You might like the tattoo boy, the escapee from the Tour de France and the
woman looking for the beach.....