September 20, 2007
- My dad and I have decided to buy a digital SLR camera together - I want to take good pictures damn it. We both want one, but in order to make it affordable for me, we decided to buy one together. After consulting the interweb and Eugenia and her husband, we decided on getting the Nikon D40 (we’ll buy it somewhere in the coming weeks). It has gotten raving reviews, is easy to use, and is relatively affordable at ~500 EUR. As for a lens, we’ll be settling on the kit lens (18-55mm) for the time being, seeing that has also been getting very good reviews (despite it being a kit lens). We can always buy a better, more professional lens later on. They don’t come cheap at all, you see. Great stuff.
- For the first time ever, Debian has let me down. A dist-upgrade on my laptop went tits up, and manual fixage got me quite far, but not far enough. I’m quite pissed off right now about this one. Ten pounds of suck, that’s what it is.
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I read on OSNews that it was Ubuntu and not Debian? Don’t dist-upgrade, it’s not supported! Use update-manager, it has a special flag for development versions!
Comment by Ernst Persson — September 23, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
Yes, it was Ubuntu. I vaguely remember that flag, but hey, I am just too used to using dist-upgrade…
Thanks, though.
Comment by Administrator — September 23, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
-Was it Debian Stable, or unstable (or Sid) ?
Comment by Caraibes — September 23, 2007 @ 9:17 pm
I too was in your boat about purchasing an SLR. I was torn between the Nikon D40 and the Canon Rebel XT. Both were great cameras, but I ended up getting the Canon because I’ve had a couple before, and their warranty support was pretty good. I don’t think you could go wrong with either camera.
Comment by matt evans — September 23, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
Comment by cariboo toucan — September 24, 2007 @ 2:45 am
Why not look at the Canon EOS 400D? I’ve got it and I think it’s brilliant. I tend to find the quality of images has a whole lot more to do with the lens and skill than the body itself.
There are limitations to this theory, but it applies a great deal. I’ve seen photos from $200 point and click cameras that hands down are better than the $1000 semi-professional cameras, all due I think to skill and the environment it was shot, in this instance.
Comment by flanque — September 24, 2007 @ 2:53 am
Ubuntu != Debian kthx. If you screwed up by using an unsupported upgrade method in Ubuntu please don’t drag Debian into it. It’s slightly irresponsible to make your readers think Debian screwed something up when you aren’t even using Debian.
Comment by Cliffton — September 24, 2007 @ 5:33 am
Yes, please,
1) Use the right names. Ubuntu is not, i repeat, NOT Debian.
2) dist-upgrade is not a supported upgrade method for Ubuntu. Read the docs. especially before complaining publicly.
Comment by just a foo — September 24, 2007 @ 7:39 am
The D40 will not autofocus any of Nikon’s prime lenses. You made a good choice.
Comment by Nathan Chilton — September 24, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
If you would only formalize the pain extraction process you went through in the install, perhaps we could have separate pain and wrong options set up for next time?
As for the camera; SLRs definitely force some consistency in there but aside from your not picking the 30-megapixel models, this is such a change-up from the thoroughly mutable (taking out IR filters, say) $35 camera review that it is disorienting. Likewise your choice of kit lens without adding more IR filters or a nice composite with basic extra IR protection, and red-bias / sky filters you can pop in. But for technique…perhaps you will be putting Wiimote accessories on it? WiFi? GPS tagging….? Third party BIOS?
Comment by Ankh if you love Whole Zombi Grain — September 27, 2007 @ 3:31 am