... time for a new camera?

There was an intruder in our house and home at 35 Rectory Road on Saturday morning at 1.30 AM. The young man reached as far as into my bedroom, which is on the second floor, while I was downstairs on my computer. It is obvious that the young thief was watching the house for the whole evening, because within 5 minutes of my leaving the living room upstairs during a TV commercial break, to catch a cup of tea and a quick look on Facebook downstairs, he was inside the house ... and getting himself discovered. The thief stole my "Lime" backpack from besides my bed, but to do that he had to empty the contents of the backpack beside the bed. The contents included my faithful Canon EOS-20D camera, a Canon EF 300mm zoom lens, my security vest, but not my spare camera batteries. This thief was definitely looking for CASH.

I am happy that the thief did not steal my Canon EOS-20D camera, but if he had it would  not have been a loss, but just an inconvenience, as the EOS-10D would get some work to do for a while until I received an EOS-5D. Since the EOS-5D Mk2 came out I have been considering an upgrade to my equipment lineup. I am happier with the full frame format and welcomed the EOS5D, as I could now stop psyching up myself for an EOS-1DS Mk4 or Mk5. The EOS-7D is a nice machine, but it is the LENS that makes the photos what they are. Of course the guys who want o be like Adams and shoot manual only don't need the bells and whistles of the latest technology of the EOS-7D.

Now don't get me wrong Manual is greatest for shooting TTL FLASH, but I like to use the latest electronics that the camera manufacturer believes photographers would like, and sometimes they are correct and other times not. From this burglar incident I recognize that I do not really need an EOS-5D. Yes, it would add a measure of flexibility to what I have to do, but for regular image making all I need is a manual camera, my lightmeter and my colormeter, but that would also call for lb, cc, other filters and the works. Bottom line is the lightmeter, colormeter, filters, et will continue to gather dust, until when the big crash comes and we must go back there of necessity. So the EOS-5D is still on the wish list for 2010, not a must have, but a want to have.

It is not surprising what you can get from a Canon DSLR if you let it do what it is designed to do. This is a snapshot through my bedroom window a few evenings ago.


And this is a snapshot from August 2008


And another snapshot from august 2008


These images appear in my Facebook photo albums. They were taken with an old Canon DSLR camera, and I wonder they were taken with a new DSLR camera if there would be any noticeable difference at all.

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