Just picked up my new toy :D

[wez130]

Went to the metro centre today and on passing Jessops, i decided to have a quick look to see if they had the 50D in stock, to my suprise, they did (even RGB don't have them yet for some reason). Anyway, i asked the price expecting them to tell me £1200 as it was but they had it down to £949, RGB is £899.

Anyway i asked if they'd pricematch RGB but 1. they didn't have stock and 2. it was over 30 miles away so they wouldn't, so i just bought it anyway, i've been waiting ages and i'm not gonna quibble over £50.

So i now own a 50D yay :D

no pics yet, i'm taking it out tomorrow though.

[garymercer]

Congrats on the new purchase !!!:clap::thumbs::woot:

[swag72]

Lucky you!! What did you upgrade from?

[purpleclouds]

Lucky you!! What did you upgrade from?

Canon 30D in his sig ;)

Nice new toy, I wish I could afford a new toy :( Enjoy!!

[Ajophotog]

Nice one Wez you lucky so n so, enjoy ;)

[Ric Type R]

Did you get a lens with it?

[Grendel]

Congrats on your new arrival Wez :clap:

For your info, firmware version 1.0.3 has just been released for the 50D. Supposedly better noise handling at high ISO. Haven't tried it myself yet but has to be worth installing :)

LINKY (http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos50d/firmware.html)

:)

[melevo]

i knew about this but id still like to say "u lucky git"

[Ian D J]

Further evidence of the credit crunch taking a hold on most people, then (!) :D :D ;) But nice one!. Hope you derive lots of enjoyment out of your new kit. :)

[Big Ant]

Congrats Wez, I hope you get many hours of enjoyment out of it

[wez130]

Well i've been out with it a couple of times so far, the whole menu system is different to my 30D so that's gonna take some getting used to, there's a couple of things i need to read into (focussing screens), other things that should be there and i can't find them lol. Other than that, i swore i'd never use live view, and now i have it, it really is handy for composing low down shots. And i am really liking it a lot, a great upgrade from the 30D. I'll post some pics on the forums later on.

[mxfun]

[QUOTE=wez130;1013312]Well i've been out with it a couple of times so far, the whole menu system is different to my 30D so that's gonna take some getting used to, there's a couple of things i need to read into (focussing screens), other things that should be there and i can't find them lol. Other than that, i swore i'd never use live view, and now i have it, it really is handy for composing low down shots. And i am really liking it a lot, a great upgrade from the 30D. I'll post some pics on the forums later on.[/QUOTE


Dumb question probably,but does the live view screen flip out

[markta]

Nice one Wez, and you have the 100-400..:clap::clap:

Lucky so and so indeed! :p

[dseered]

Nice one Wez, look forward to see the first shots !

[wez130]

Nice one Wez, look forward to see the first shots !

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=91365

[wez130]

[QUOTE=wez130;1013312]Well i've been out with it a couple of times so far, the whole menu system is different to my 30D so that's gonna take some getting used to, there's a couple of things i need to read into (focussing screens), other things that should be there and i can't find them lol. Other than that, i swore i'd never use live view, and now i have it, it really is handy for composing low down shots. And i am really liking it a lot, a great upgrade from the 30D. I'll post some pics on the forums later on.[/QUOTE


Dumb question probably,but does the live view screen flip out

no it doesn't lol

[Flash In The Pan]

Congratulations :thumbs:

You realise that you need a new sig now? ;)

[wez130]

yes i know lol

I'll have to get round to making one