After many years with my trusty Nikon Coolpix 990, the time has finally come to upgrade. Digital SLRs are finally within reach of the “prosumer”.<\/p>\n
A few of my friends have the Canon EOS 10D<\/a>, and a decent selection of lenses. It seemed fitting that I should also go the Canon route. But with the new EOS 20D<\/a> on the market, that seemed the obvious choice.<\/p>\n I just got a new Visa card, with some reward points. Gave it a good breaking in, buying the new camera, the new 17-85mm EF-S image-stabilized lens, plus some accessories (bag, the “battery grip”, and a Sandisk Extreme 2GB CompactFlash card.)<\/p>\n I haven’t had much time yet for any serious photographic efforts. There is much to learn about this camera. And, being my first SLR, I also have much to learn about lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After many years with my trusty Nikon Coolpix 990, the time has finally come to upgrade. Digital SLRs are finally within reach of the “prosumer”. A few of my friends have the Canon EOS 10D, and a decent selection of lenses. It seemed fitting that I should also go the Canon route. But with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}