I keep seeing warnings that you shouldn't manually focus the Canon lenses
that aren't Full-time Manual Focus, if they are in AF mode.
For example, in DPReview's test of the EF-S 18-55mm IS
(http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/canon_18-55_3p5-5p6_is_c16/page2.asp)

I remember years ago asking the same question about film SLRs but
can't remember if there ever was a good reason for placing the lens a
bit off center towards the left side of the camera.
Now we find the same arrangement on digital SLRs and again I wonder if

Back to Kodak for sensors?  While the Kodak sensors had  a certain
"something" this is not good news...
From a post on Dpreview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1022&thread=28204382

I am struggling, trying to understand the format of RAW files.
I understand the is a luminosity channel (12 or 14 bits, depending on the
camera) for each pixel which accounts for the bulk of the information,
plus color information.

I'm thinking of buying a buying a DSLR, I've seen Canons 450D as a good
introductory DSLR.
What would be a good alternative, ie Nikon, Pentax models.
Phil

I read the review of the Sony A350 on DPReview (thanks to RichA).
Are they completely blind and stupid?
They claim the picture of the RAW file of the Canon 450 is better. Well,
download both files and judge:

I just upgraded my D70 to a D3 and still am very green regarding
digital photography. I was hoping that you all could shoot me some
opinions regarding a lens choice.
My old D3 had a 18mm-70mm DX lens which I still have as well as a

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I'm wondering if we're losing anything now CCDs are pretty much
confined to medium formats?

In portrait you can't do RAW.
If you switch to AV and you lower "f" to minimum are you getting exactly the
same mode? (Shooting in RAW)

http://photoreporter.com/article.asp?issueID=&num=&vol=&articleType=fc&articleID=2013
"We believe we can be successful and profitable if we can grow our
digital SLR share in the U.S. from 4 percent to 8 or 10 percent by
2010"

Is there a way to do this?  Specifically I
need to alter the exposure bracketing to give
greater than +/-1.0 in a continuous burst,
and to have more bracketing shots in a

Just "recommended?"  The A700 showed such promise.  The A100 was a
cheap,cheap plastic thing, but it did have one good thing going for
it..unmolested raw files which rendered the best 10 meg resolution at
the time of it's introduction.  The new Sony seems to have a clever

I've yet to see one that didn't render images TOO flat.  Mostly
unprintable in their rendered state.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonydslra350/page19.asp