jasona1

I am under the impression that exposure should be the same with ETTL2 regardless

of whether a flash is bounced or not. Obviously shadows will look different but

the exposure should be the same should it not?

Looking for something similar to Apples iBook. Essentially I want a more

professional book than Apple offers but I do not want a leather bound book. I

tried a search but only results for for "how to" books.

Any recommendations?

What do you get with the full version that is missing with the Beta? I have just

begun to play around with the Beta and I am content thus far. But am curious

what I am missing from the full version.

Need some clarification on the 30D flash metering. My 10D like all previous

bodies(?) switched over to evaluative metering mode if I recall correctly. I

know that the 30D is E-TTL II but does that change the metering mode? Manual

isn't specific on this topic.

Sorry for the duplicate post but I just realized this probably fits better in

the Digital Forum.........

"Looking for some holiday photo borders, preferably a Photoshop plug in or

something similiar, for an upcoming photoshoot. Essentially shooting a family

event and want to add a Christmas border to the images before final printing.

Lots of googling has turned up more ads for junk than I could ever have

imagined. Therefore if anyone has any tips I am open to ideas.

Thanks"

Looking for some holiday photo borders, preferably a Photoshop plug in or

something similiar, for an upcoming photoshoot. Essentially shooting a family

event and want to add a Christmas border to the images before final printing.

Lots of googling has turned up more ads for junk than I could ever have

imagined. Therefore if anyone has any tips I am open to ideas.

Thanks

My Strobes take a standard 1/8" mini cable. This is the same connecter the

pocket wizard uses. Had trouble locating my "Pocket Wizard" branded mini to mini

cable($24) and no one has them in stock here. I grabbed a $4 cable from Radio

Shack. Does anyone see any problems with using this generic cable. I can't

imagine there is anything special about the PW branded cable.

-J

I am slightly confused on this combo. About half the info I read says

that in order to remove the pb-e2 and shoot with just the body you

need to install the original grip. I was told by the sales rep that

the pb-e2 was just a cover that fits over the original body and that

there is no "original" body only grip.

Bottom line is I will shoot half the time with the grip off and I am

buying used so I need to know if something else needs to be purchased

or even can be.

I searched but could not find exact info.

What are the differences between these boosters? I am finding

conflicting information from multiple sources. Some say they both have

vertical shutter release some say only the PB-E2 does.

My current setup is one laptop and one desktop pc connected to the

same monitor via a KVM switch. I have calibrated the monitor with the

laptop (Adobe Gamma). If I copy the icc profile over to the desktop

shouldn't the image be the same on both machines? The desktop image

seems to be more washed out.

I obvioiusly cannot do a side by side comparison since there is only

one monitor.

any thoughts?

I am looking into the Colorvision Spyder2. I will not be calibrating a

printer. Just my LCD and CRT. Is there another solution out there that

offers calibration of my Minolta Scan Dual IV? I don't scan too much

but I can never seem to get the scan to match the slide. Will merely

calibrating my monitor take care of this or is there something else

that needs to be done? (i.e. scanning a slide of a color palette and

calibrating from there)

Thanks for any info.........

Beginning this past summer I started receiving the dreaded "error 99"

on my 2yr old 10D. I only use canon lenses and it happened at various

times with any lens combo. There was never a solid factor that I could

nail down that would cause the problem. It has increasingly become a

problem in the last 6 months and it was to the point that after every

five frames or so it would lock up.

I use the BG-ED3 99% of the time with both batteries installed. I have

cleaned the contacts on both body and lens numerous times and was

getting the error with the battery pack on or off. Then it dawned on

me that all of my "testing" included the original battery that shipped

with the camera. And when I had the battery pack installed that

battery was one of the two most of the time. I have no way of knowing

if it was in the camera every time the error occurred, however. The

contacts looked fine but I cleaned them anyway and I am now unable to

duplicate the error (fingers crossed). I am unable to duplicate the

error with the other two batteries as well.

I just thought I would throw this out there as I have never seen it

mentioned as a potential cause. Maybe this info will help someone else

who was/is as frustrated as I was.