I’d love to get access to a really high quality film scanner so I could get my entire portfolio saved digitally. I’d hate to buy something like that, since after I had all my old photo’s scanned it would be pretty useless. Meanwhile, I’m a bit frustrated with my new digital camera, a Canon Digital Rebel XT - but it’s only a minor frustration. It takes really sharp pictures and there’s plenty of manual control, which I absolutely demand out of a camera. My one pet peeve is 2 things that are inter-related so I’ll only count them as one: under low light it has a very hard time focusing. But I’m not talking darkness, I mean subdued light; maybe overcast skies; and the sensor does not seem to be as sensitive to light as I would like. In a room where an ISO 400 should handle the job, it’s telling me I need to use ISO 800.

This could be my lens - in fact, both these problems could be the lens that comes with the camera. I’m going to have to eventually invest in a straight 50mm lens. I’ve been using zoom lenses for years now on both my film camera and now the digital, and I have never been terribly happy with the quality - they tend to be a bit on the fuzzy side.

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