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Whatever you buy, make sure you can return it. Give it a good test run at home filled with all your travel gear before getting it muddy. B&H is good about taking bags back as long as they are still in new condition with all bits and pieces.

Had that problem until I read the manual for the fourth time.

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Please post with some pictures and such when you have them. I would really like to hear about your experiences with them in actual use at a wedding. Thank you.

Do not partition a hard drive for a scratch disk. It will slow things down instead of spead them up. The same hard drive will have to be accessed when read and writing data and also when read/writing the scratch disk.

 

Three hard drives are ideal, a fourth is even better.

Drive One: Operating System

Drive Two: Scratch Disk and Temp Drive

Drive Three: Images and Data

Drive Four: Images and Data Backup

 

Drive Four is a good nominee for an external FireWire or Network drive.

 

My dream machine has a RAID 0 Drive one and two and RAID 1 for Drive three which eliminates the need for Drive four.

I swap back and forth between three different cards and have friends that switch between as many as six different cards. The bottom line is none of us care about file numbering.

 

I do know that when I spend a week out taking photos and switching between multiple cards I have never noticed a number reset or a jump in numbers.

 

I guess the real reason I don't pay attention to the file numbering or naming is using three different Canon digital cameras on a trip guarantees that the file names/numbers are meaningless. You can use software later to rename the files in bulk if you really feel a need.

 

I put every day into a folder named "YYYYMMDD_description" and use the latest version of ACDSee to edit EXIF data, rotate, and sort.

 

Hope some of that helps.

If you use a memory card with photos already on it where you want to start your numbers it may work. Make sure the memory card has all the Canon system files on it.

 

By the way, most file systems will have problems with more than 2,000 files in a single directory.

Partitioning a HD for PhotoShop will actually slow things down. For maximimum efficiency you can have three hard drives. One for the OS, one for the scratch disk, and one for the data. Using just two drives, one is the OS/Software and two is the scratch disk/data.

 

Your scanning software crashing is either a limit of your software or the lack of RAM (whcih should not happen in WindowsXP if you have plenty of disk space.)

How did you trigger the flash?

Give the 50 1.8 cheapie a try.

Maybe you could take the portaits before the wedding at a rehersal. Otherwise, you may want to look for a room with low white ceilings to bounce the flash off of.

Take a card into the store and check it out. Do the same with a CD and DVD. I have found that my two DVD players will play JPGs from a 10D (6 MP) but not the 20D (8 MP) and neither will play JPGs saved to a DVD.

Due to customer demand for LCD screens with rediculously high contrast, which is great for reading text and playing games, but is horrible for the subtlety required required for photo work.

 

An inexpensive 17" LCD in combination with an inexpensive 19" CRT is a great working combo. The sharpness and eye relief of an LCD with all of the shades afforded by a CRT. Also as an added bonus you get lots of screen space spread across two monitors.

 

If for some reason you don't want to have two monitors, I recommend a CRT that has a background as close to black as possible.

I also wanted to ask if you have seen the final prints/images? That should tell you a lot.

I would bet that white balance was set to auto. Especially if flash was the main source of light.

Check out http://www.smugmug.com. I have been happy with them.

 

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Put "list@davenelson.com" in the referrer field and get $5 off (I get something too :)

 

They use Ez-prints for printing of the ordered photos and after over 300 photos including some 20x30 prints I am very happy with them.

That is the image stabilization goodness hard at work and is normal.

Wouldn't an umbrella be a better, more portable, solution?

I bought the grip for the 10D and after about a year of shooting with the 10D (Around 10,000 photos) I completely stopped using it.

 

The extra battery is not needed. With the 10D I get more than a day's worth of shoting from a single battery.

 

The grip does aid in the taking vertical photos. I find it uncomfortable to hold the camera in a vertical position for a long time without the grip, especially with a heavy lens. But I do not take enough vertical pictures to make carrying the grip worth while.

 

With the 20D and the new batteries available I do not see a need for having two batteries powering the camera and the added weight and size of the grip make the grip undesirable to me.

You are shooting in AdobeRGB and not converting to sRGB, add that step to your process and it will fix many things. Do a search on photo.net for AdobeRGB, there are many threads on the subject/problem.

That is really vague, what does "in the field" mean? Does it mean that you can take photos in a pasture but not in a field?

 

If the contract is really worded that way it would be fun to bring a lawyer in to laugh at them.

 

If the wording was much more specific it may be useful. I personally would never sign such a thing.

 

The way you have presented it, it appears that you couldn't even move to another contry and practice your profession.

Any time you see the Mark II cameras as being supported the 20D will be supported. Why they cannot just state that they support the CR2 file format I do not understand.

 

Version 2.3 of the plug-in will work.

Depending upon an Internet cafe nightly that will allow you to download and then burn CDs sounds sketchy to me. I would invest in an image bank or stand alone burner.

 

If you are shooting JPG I recommend multiple 1GB CF cards so that if one quits working you do not loose everything and are not stranded without memory. If you are shooting RAW 2GB cards are more handy.

 

P.S.

Don't forget card reader(s) for use in the cafes.

So talk to us. What do you think the results are? I can't really tell anything by looking at the photos.