mmm...bare knuckle...mmm...chumley's.

you can hardly make out the chops in the darkness. pity.

the chops are smaller now :)

i had the chumley's wheat beer last night with lemon. yum, yum, yum.

I had the bulldog bitter - refreshing and tangy.
Don't worry Tien, the chops have a tendency to grow back. Fast.

Were these shots taken with the Rebel or your non-SLR? With the excellent low-light exposures and the tight beer-bottle close-up, I'd guess "Rebel", but maybe the non-SLR's are getting better -- or you're just very savvy about using them. Whatever the camera, the third shot -- the portrait -- is, like so many of your shots, wonderfully composed. With a fine pictorial eye like yours, you hardly even need an SLR. Hmmn, guess that doesn't help your case. OK, with a fine eye like yours, a Rebel, with its assortment of telephoto and wide-angle lenses, will surely make your work even more excellent. There.

Thanks.

I'm not sure if you disproved my theory (which is admittedly selfish, tinged with humor...but only tinged) or bolstered it. :)

Actually, those shots were done with my Canon SD10, the least flexible of my two cameras. I don't own a Rebel-- I only get to play with that when I visit my parents.

I might note that our beer glasses had quite a lot to do with capturing images last night. Spontaneous tripods.

Due to the graininess of the last, low-light picture, I'm afraid I'll have to stop visiting this site until an adequate SLR is acquired. Sorry. Them's the breaks.

im with you corey. i want an slr but they're so expensive.. but i've def outgrown my digital elph. so i dont really know what to do.

I've seen older Rebel models priced at about 500-600 (used or via non wholesale sellers). I doubt that includes the lens, though. If I felt irresponsible and impulsive, I'd totally open up a new credit card and paying it off over time. Not that I've thought about that much or anything.

The main thing that I love about the digital SLRs is the increased control over ISO, focusing, etc. I realized that my Canons have a max ISO of 400. I rarely play with the manual settings on the Elph becuase it's such a bitch to fiddle with.

Sigh. Maybe a collection plate for bloggers who want new expensive toys?

i think those pictures look totally good, plus you don't have to lug around a huge slr everywhere you go. sure you'd look like a professional photojournalist and probably be able to get into events like the penthouse club, but where does it end?

it's also the screen vs print issue. not that every photo is supposed to be a masterpiece, but it's much easier to fix up photos for the web than it is for print...i like to get a lot of my photos processed and they look yucky.

plus, macro lenses are awesome.

but i don't have an slr and got into the penthouse executive club...

that's because you're such a stud.

so here is my solution. you buy the new Canon 20D body for me and I'll GIVE you my DigiReb body AND the kit lens. Good deal, huh?

that last comment was from me - not corie, but corie insists on leaving MT comment defaults on her parent's computers....

don't get your boxers in a bunch. all fixed.

and no, not a good deal, as i would venture to think that the 20D body is the same price as the body and lens of the digireb combined.

phooey.

Canon rebate here, which means a replacement for the DRebel is not too far away...

http://66.245.180.181/canon/rebateclaimform.pdf

I love these pics! This sounds like an awesome place to go - my history geek within would love to just sit and imagine the past goings-on that happened within its walls....fun fun fun!

heh, the problem with having a digital rebel is that then you want all the lenses and accessories that come with it! it's wayyyy too addicting. :)

Oh, and the photo at my site isn't layered or through a window -- the wire mask was hanging on invisible strings and i moved so you wouldn't be able to see them at all when the photo was taken against the white wall. The lens I'm using (85mm/f1.8) also has such a narrow focus that I could basically blur out the strings to make it look like it's floating.

Buying a digitial SLR (we have the nikon d100) is just the beginning. Figure another 1k for the various lenses you'll want. Each one completely justifiable. Then you'll want to save up for the faster lenses!

At the end of the day though, most of my pictures are from the optio since I carry it ALL the time. I would not lug the d100 when I meet friends for dinner for example

Ah, but craving new lenses is just the next level of the impossible wants! :)