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SLR in Jungle

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rosenben

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Hi everyone,

I've just bought a new Digital Rebel.
I'm going into the jungle.

Does anyone have any tips on dealing with the humidy.

If i never take the lens off, will it be air tight?
Or should I place silicon in the main chamber when i'm not taking photo's.
Or any other tips ?
 
I was in Mexico and it was pretty humid and i never had a problem.One thing i noticed with my rebel and have read about others is that the images are about 1/3 to 1/2 stop under exposed .The images look right in the lcd but are dark in editing software.Have a good trip
 
I, too, have noticed that the lcd gives a misleading indication of exposure. It is necessary to keep one's eye on the histogram which is a better indicator of balanced exposure.

I have taken my film Rebel into jungle environments without a problem. Next fall my digital Rebel will be going to Belize. I will be interested in reading comments on this issue to help me with my planning.
 
Mary Lou,
I have the same issue with my Digital Rebel.

However, I loaded my images on a friends computer and they weren't dark like on mine.

I have noticed that the images look darker on my PC at work than on my PC at home.

I have been considering getting one of those monitor calibration things cause I'm getting tired of second guessing how the image actually looks.

HTH
Chris
 
Hi Guys

Are you Guys totally happy with the crispness of your shots. I am thinking of trading my D30 for a 300d for the lightness and 6Mpixels really. I must admit though to never really being happy with the sharpness of my D30 end results - especially compared to a colleagues Fuji s602Z

regards

Pat
 
Since my 300d is my first quality digital camera, I'm not in a good position to compare sharpness. What I see is great but maybe someone else can do a comparison.

As to the darkness of images, if I had followed the histogram, or if I had used automatic exposures, I think the pictures would have been fine. I over-ruled the histogram and consequently got pictures which were darker than they appeared on the lcd. When the histogram showed a good balanced exposure, the image was fine.
 
I have 3 lens's,Canon 18-55,Canon 28-105 usm 2 and a Canon 75-300 usm 2.By far the most crisp is the 28-105.I am not to impressed with the 18-55.If i was to buy another Rebel it would be with the 28-105 not the 18-55.
if you have
 
As for the monitor calibration. If you have photoshop7 ,it comes with a gamma wizard which will assist you in setting up your monitor. This way what you see on the monitor will be calibrated with your printer
 
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