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January 14, 2006
PhotoNotes: HOWTO Guide for the EOS User

I made the jump from film to digital photography two years ago -- though I still stick to and unnaturally love my film cameras and cannot be convinced that they are in any way obsolete -- and even now, I still haven't mastered all the ins and outs of my Nikon digital cameras. I read the manual, I've played, tested, poked, and prodded my camera, and yet it seems every now and again someone shows me something I never knew my D70 could do -- and I'm a professional portrait photographer! So many times, I've thought to myself, "Gee, I wish I had a handy, girlfriends-style guide to this camera instead of technical details and specs."

For Canon users, that dream is closer to reality.

PhotoNotes.org is a Canon EOS-specific photography site geared at answering all your questions, including a forum for users to snap and chat about all of the features and functions and show off a bit of their work. According to the site's maintainer, "Photonotes.org is a free public information resource for the Internet photographic community," though it is heavily biased toward the Canon EOS camera family.

Still, there are some good articles that can be useful for photobloggers with any digital camera. Thomas Hawk would have done well to read the PhotoNotes article warning people about the pitfalls of buying cameras from auction sites or online dealers with too good to be true prices, and there's a comprehenisve piece on infrared photography that I've twice read, bookmarked, and printed. Now, to hit my bank account with a huge B&H bill for 120 and 35mm infrared film -- who says (*cough*Nikon*cough*) film cameras are dead -- and have a bit of fun with PhotoNotes as my guide.

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Just wanted to give you a heads up that your link to photonotes.org is actually to photonotes.com.

posted by laanba at 2006/01/15

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