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Thanks guys! I am way up here in Alaska. Thanks again for your great idea's! I will be using them!

Rob

Yes I am sure you are worth it and much more! I am fairly new to this new hobbie but I am impressed at how nice every one is on this forum and willing to give of their time and talents to those of us that are learning.

Thanks again!

These are all great helpful tips! I am very surprized at how fast and how many of you are willing to help at no charge!

I have never shot RAW yet. I think I will shoot a few at my sons track meet this week end and see what happens?

The group shot is not until the end of this month.

Thanks allot!!

I have been asked to shoot a group photo for our church youth group of around 100

kids. I have a Cannon Rebel XTI with a EF 17-35 F4L lens. I take allot of sports

photos with my 70-200 2.8 but this group photo is new to me. I would like the

photo to have good clearity so you can see every one's face if possible. Do you

have any tricks or tips you could offer? Aperature settings? The lighting should be

pretty good at around 10:AM in the morning but should I use a flash also?

Please help!

Thanks!

Rob

I love my new Rebel XT with the 70-200 2.8! I need a good photo work shop

program to edit pictures, make slide shows with music, audio and video into

DVD's. I have been using Sony's Vegas DVD but when I render the show the

quality is very poor. Please help me know what you use and give any

recommendations you can!

Thank-you!

Rob Meyer, Soldotna Alaska

You all are Awesome! Thank-you for your help. I will work on finding the sweet spot for this lens. I am in the learning mode with my new SLR and this forum has been very helpful.

Thanks again!

I have recently bought a Rebel xt with a 70-200 2.8 & a 17-85 IS lens.

I love the 70-200! I am not having very good luck with the 17-85. The

pictures are not as focused and as sharp as I would like. Outside they are

better than inside. Up close shots are great but land scape and group shots

are blurry and not very sharp.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to shoot this lens inside and out?

I shoot mostly in the P mode and set my ISO to 100 out side and 400 inside.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

Rob Meyer in Alaska

After much study and reading your many threads I am ready to buy a

Rebel Xt body with a Canon 70-200 IS lens. Can some one help me

decide where I should buy? And do you any of you have possitive feed

back on the combination of the camer and lens? Will I be happy? I

want to shoot my kids playing soccer outside and basket ball inside.

The lens is more $ than I wanted to pay for but I do not want to

spend money on a lens that I will not be happy with.

Thank you in advance for any advice you may have!

Thank you all very much for your replies! I did fall into the trap of the camera being cheap and the accessories killed me. I ended up paying $2400.00 for the package.

I will do my research better from now on and go to B&H.

Rob

Soldotna, Alaska

I have just bought a Rebel XT with Sigma 28-70MM f/2.8-4.0 High speed

compact zoom Aspherical auto focus and a Sigma 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6

Macro Super II SLD auto focus. I am new to the photo world and do

not know what all those numbers mean! I need a good lens for taking

sports pictures of my kids playing basket ball and volly ball and one

for walk around family and scenery photes. I paid $600 for each lens.

I have been shooting the 28-70 for a few days of family and

snowboarding on the mountain. About 20% of my shots are blurred. The

quality of the photos are not as good as I had hoped! I have been

using the basic settings on the camera have not learned how to us the

creative zones yet! I have not shot the 70-300 yet.

Do I blame it on the Sigma lens or the camera operator? I am excited

to learn about this camera and take some great shots, I have 7 days

to return the Sigma lenses if I do not like them. I wanted Canon

Image Stablelization but the sales man at Expresscameras.com talked

me into these. Should I keep them or trade for Canon lens?

Please help!