All,
I have a Canon 300D which has worked quite well in the last 2 years.
Recently though I began noticing a thick curved strip starting in the
upper left corner of the image curving closer to the center as it works

I am novice and spend most of my time in auto mode, I'm wondering if you have
any sugestions for settings and setup for doing portrates, most of mine turn
out dark and right now I dont have the money for a new flash.
Any help would be great

I am looking towards buying a drawing tablet for use with Photoshop etc. Does anyone have any suggestions brand wise?
I found some on EBay, the brands were: UC-LOGIC, Wacom, DigiPro, Hanvon, Aquila, Graphire, GENIUS, Medion, Cool-iCam, CyberTablet, Nisis Easypen, Art Pad, Adesso, ...

This is partly for fun, but if not interested please skip this thread.
The question.
Suppose you live on the border between the US and Canada.
It's june and you make a photograph due south. (So the camera

I have upgraded to the D-200 and will sell my D-70. It includes everything
in the factory box. $450. Plus shipping from PA.
Howard

A magazine made the comment the other day as to whether a
plastic-housed lens would maintain alignment over the "long haul."  I
wasn't aware this was an issue.  I'd have thought that expansion and
contraction of plastic during temp changes might compromise the shape

with several lenses including a Nikon ED AF Nikkor 70-300mm 1:4 - 5.6 D
which has begun to develop an annoying problem lately.
It flashes the fault code fEE in the control panel nearly all the time and
of course the camera is inoperable while the fault code is flashing.  I can

More or less supports the idea that the production run of these cameras
was so low only a select few European and Asians stores got them.
"Grey" market bodies are non-existent.

I'm so tired of my old Olypmus "brownie" that takes seconds to decide
when to grab an image - I want to get back to a SLR type body.
Cannon/Olympus/Nikon/Sony ????????  Any testimonials of happy users
or flames from unhappy owners?

I just got a 5D and, so far, I love the camera, but I can't get the
flash to fire before the shutter closes. I did set the Custom function
#15 to "2nd Curtain sync", but it doesn't do the trick. Thinking it
could be a problem with the flash, I asked my friend to try it on his

Click the image (first row on the right) and look at the moire in the
fence.
http://homepage.mac.com/b.c.delaney/E400-D2X/index4.html
The moire with the Nikon is stronger than the Olympus which makes me

I've noticed a distinct lack of contrast with my Canon EF-S 10-22mm.
Is this normal for this particular lens or is it a characteristic of
very wide angle lenses in general?
Thanks for any thoughts...

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I ordered from Prestige Camera.  The salesman was rude and lied, but I
did get my camera.  I got a good price but had to tolerate
high-pressure sales. Plus they lied to me about requiring a signature
from UPS so the $800 package was left on my doorstep!  They state

I bought a Pentax istD several years ago and have hardly used it since
then. I have to admit I've never been satisfied with its performance
(I've always found the sensor produces images that are too soft). The
one I got also had some serious technical problems (it drained power