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

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

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]