Canon EOS

EOS 350D

http://www.digital-versand.de/images/big/canon_eos_350d.jpg

Hardware

EOS 350D

• CMOS
  • 22,2 x 14,8 mm
  • 8,2 millions of pixels (8 millions when capturing -> 3456 x 2304)
  • ISO 100, 200, 400, 800 or 1600
• EF-S body compatible with all Canon EF (red dot/full frame) or EF-S (white square) but 1,6X to get 35 mm equivalent

Lens

• Canon EF-S 18-55 3.5-5.6 II Ø58
• Canon EF-S 60 1:2.8 USM (Macro) Ø52
• Canon EF 75-300 1:4-5.6 III USM Ø58
• Canon EF 50 1:1.8 II Ø52
  • Ebay
    • "Canon 50mm f/1.8 f1.8 II EF AF BRAND NEW for 40D 400D"
    • 20080123
    • 37.88EUR+36.00EUR
    • Seller: misbworkshop

Filters

• ND8 58mm
  • Ebay
    • "HOYA HMC 58mm NEUTRAL DENSITY NDx8 - ND8 Filter 58"
    • 20080117
    • 22.95USD
    • Seller: sobefoto
• Filtre polarisant
• Filtre sky
• UV 58mm
  • Ebay
    • "New Hoya HMC Multi-coated 58mm UV filter Made In Japan"
    • 20080116
    • 6.99GBP+0
    • Seller: hkbbstore
• UV 52mm
  • Ebay
    • "Hoya S-HMC UV(O) 52mm Canon EF50mm F1.8 HM-52"
    • 20080116
    • 9.63USD+13.00USD
    • Seller: smartredbutton
• adapter 58mm(filter)-52mm(lens)

Flash

• Canon Speedlite 430EX
• Canon Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2

Misc

• Tripod
  • MediaMarkt
• Tripod ball head
  • Ebay
    • "PRO CAMERA TRIPOD BALL HEAD for Nikon D60 D40x D80 D200"
    • 20080816
    • 7.95USD+7.95USD 5.41EUR+5.41EUR
    • Seller:jinfinance
  • Maximum Load: 2.5kg
  • Pan: 360 degrees
  • Plate size: 3.5 cm diameter
  • Screw Mount: 1/4" , 3/8" thread
  • Head Weight: 0.16 kg
  • Head Height: 6.5 cm
• Multi Brand Remote Controller MR-5 (for Minolta/Nikon/Canon G-S-Pro/Canon DSLR-SLR/Pentax/Olympus)
• remote cable shutter
  • hand-made
• YXTM Hand Grip
  • bough on EBay
• Canon eyecup
  • I lost the original one and I found exactly the same on Ebay
  • Ebay
    • "Canon Original Rubber Viewfinder cover Digital Film SLR"
    • 20080813
    • 4.85GBP+2.60GBP
    • Seller: cameraext
• Sonia eye piece adapter for Pentax (india)
  • more classical round eyecup, but tight loosely to the body
  • Ebay
    • "Canon Eye piece cup adapter for viewfinder EOS FD Rebel"
    • 20080811
    • 7.19USD+4.99USD
    • Seller: photo-xpress
• Bag CaseLogic
  • Fry's Electronics, San Jose
• bean bag -> mouse rest
• pare-soleil

Ideas

• batterie 1000mAh
• Housses étanches
  • Ewa-marine (pour PowerShot A20: D-AM)
  • Aquapac (pour PowerShot A20: compact £20)
• Nettoyage: tissus et pinceau
• [Chargeur universel http://www.unomat.de] FC-200 (code 3922) with D3 plate (code 3878) for NB-2LH
• reflecteurs auto
• ballons?
• jambiere? (boot cover)
• AVA white screen

Official sites

• Promotion Mastercard
• sur Canon Europe
• sur Canon Japan (+samples)
• brochure en Français (122kb)
• manuels
• Digital Rebel XT whitepaper
• Softwares ou ici
• Software Digital Photo Professional 1.6.1
• Firmwares etc
• EOS 350D DIGITAL Firmware Update Version 1.0.2
• EOS 300D Site
• CANON iMAGE GATEWAY

Guides

• Digital SLR cameras
• Astrophotography guide for EOS DIGITAL

Non-officials

• Digital Rebel Tips and Tricks
• Canon Digital Rebel Forum
• Wikipedia

Hacks

• IR-CUT FILTER REMOVAL OPERATION
• QUICKAPN: Raquette de commande d’APN et ici
• Hand-made trigger:

File:Declencheur.jpg
The external trigger is composed of a jack 2.5mm, three wires, an on/off switch and a push button
Shortcut of ground and right (the middle ring) is equivalent to half-press, here wired to a simple on/off switch which provides the housing
Shortcut of ground and left (the tip) is equivalent to full press, here wired to a simple red push button

• Camera Hacker

Linux

• Digital Camera Support for UNIX, Linux and BSD
• Canon PTP extensions
  • Don't seem to work yet for 350D
• Dave Coffin RAW Digital Photo Decoder
• Digital photography and Linux moved to http://dplinux.org
• Java Panorama Viewer (PTviewer)
• gphoto2 (2.1.6 in unstable)
  • gphoto2 --config allows to change e.g. the owner string
  • add users to group camera
  • see /usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/linux-hotplug scripts
• apparently capture could work with gphoto2 according to this page: Needs to build TRUNK with experimental features on
• gphotofs and fuse

Digital photography

• Steve's DigiCams
• Digital Camera Reviews and News (same as here?)
• Imaging resource incl. some howtos, tutorials,... Some EOS300 specific ones
• Digital camera resource page
• Digital Photography Hacks incl. free sample chapters

Scripts

If you don't like having files named IMG_1234.JPG, you can try sth like this to rename the images _yyyy_mm_dd-xxx.jpg_

j=1;
for i in *.JPG;do
   exif.py $i 2>/dev/null |\
   gawk -v i=$i -v j=$j '
       /DateTime:/{
           match($0,/([0-9]+):([0-9]+):([0-9]+)/,a);
           system("mv "i" " sprintf(a[1] "_" a[2] "_" a[3] "-" "%03d" ".jpg",j))
       }';
   j=$((j+1));
done

Devel

• Capture
  • gphoto-devel thread

• USB Snoopy
  • Project on sourceforge
  • Documentation

Cards

• SanDisk Extreme III 1.0 Gb
  • Reading from PCMCIA: 11Mbits/s
  • Reading from USB2: 20 Mbits/s

Notes

I was wondering why in bulk mode over 30s the camera was busy after the shot for about the same time.
Now I got the answer!
When taking long exposure shots, we can have what's called hot pixels, red, green or blue. To remove them automatically the SLR takes a picture of the same duration with the shutter closed (called "dark" in astrophoto) and substract it from the previous. [1]