Featuring rants unworthy of due consideration. Spell checked, but not proofread
For those of you that pay attention to anything that is going on. You know that I sold my original digital rebel last year because I didn’t have time to use it. Well, it was my intend to purchase a new one once I had time again. Ironically, the stars seem to have aligned, because the new digital rebel comes out exactly when the semester is over.
Good bye grad school. Hello MBA.
Good bye WoW. Hello EOS Digital Rebel XSi 12.2-Megapixel.
I know that I always end up getting a lot of hate mail when I write a “first impression” post, but hell. It is what I do. 
Thus far, my adventure into the lightroom software product has been lack luster. Granted, it does look like it will work out extremely well for organizing my photo collection. Ever since I hit 10,000 they have been a pain in the ass to handle.
Unfortunately, many of the other features are exactly necessary, or just aren’t very good. For example, some of the correction tools have “auto” buttons, which I would not normally use, but since I was testing out the app, I tried it on a few images. To put it lightly, it destroyed them. Things like this carried out throughout the “develop” functional area of the application. So, I’ll probably continue to stick to Photoshop to do any of my real image correction.
There are some functions, that I cannot really see ever using, such as the export to print or web. But, I’ll wait and see if I can find a use for them at some point.
As you can see by the screen grab at the top, the actual interface itself is kind of ugly. I don’t like how it does not fit within the MDI standard of macs. In many ways, it looks like it is just a straight port of a windows application (which it probably is).
That’s all I have to say on it for now. I recently got my digital rebel back (which I am planning on selling – more on that later) , so I will be trying out the raw support pretty quick here.
Thoughts?
This is a just a quick post letting everyone know what my tentative photography plans are for the summer.
New Camera
400D
At some point I would like to pick up a new camera to use this summer. I would really like to pick up the latest 400D model of the digital rebel. If offers some features that should make the user experience quite a lot better. However, I can only get about $200 out of my 300D, and I don’t really want to drop another $600 into a camera upgrade.
SD600 Or, Whatever
The Canon PowerShot SD600 is the most popular point and shoot camera on flickr, and it looks like a pretty decent camera. However, I would have to get the upgrade for it, since I don’t believe you can get that particular version anymore. Regardless, I would really like to get a decent point and shoot that I can just take around everywhere to take a picture when the opportunity presents itself.
Adobe Lightroom
After checking out the latest version of Photoshop, and watching the video for Light room, I have decided that I will buy Lightroom at some point in the not too distant future. It looks like quite a wonderful utility and should help encourage me to take some photos, since the current process of getting them together is quite horrid.
Feedback?
Apparently random $129 task chair > $700 aeron. You do the math.
I think I like carpet better. 
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