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Self-Portrait, cam and all
Originally uploaded by eidolon

And, as promised in my final change jar post, I transferred the Coinstar number into an Amazon gift certificate, and went shopping. The amount I got from the change jar was just enough to get my dream Digital SLR camera, the Canon 400D, aka the Digital Rebel XTi.

It arrived yesterday, and, after fishing a spare CF card out of my parts bin, I'm happily taking pictures with it.

It has pointed out, however, that my Camera-Fu is seriously lacking, and I need to do some studying up. This camera has more settings, more fiddlings, more details than anything I've worked with before I have a lot to learn.

I took this picture last night while playing around with the mirrors a bit (was looking to take a picture of the camera itself, but ended up with this arrangement.)

One thing I hadn't really considered. The images on the camera are something like 11meg each, and Flickr has an upload limit of 10meg. It means I can't save the raw images I take directly to Flickr as my primary archive. I need to reconsider how I store / sort / upload pictures now.

But... Yay new camera!!!

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Category: Geekitude
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