Green Rectangle – if you’re coming up from a point and shoot and are finding all the bells and whistles of an SLR a bit too much, then simply set the mode dial to green rectangle and fire away, the camera will do the rest.Then there is the command dial on the left which sets the mode for the camera. In addition, and at the back of the camera, are the Auto Exposure lock (*) and Exposure Compensation (AV +/-) buttons more on which later. Looking down on the camera on the top plate and moving from left to right there is the command dial with which you select the camera mode, the hotshoe, some small black function buttons, an LCD, the main dial (which sits vertically behind the shutter button and has been a mainstay of Canon cameras since the venerable T90) and the shutter button on top of the grip.
CANON OBJEKTIV AUF NIKON KAMERA MANUAL
Power is supplied by two lithium CR2 batteries which, incidentally, cost me more than the camera!įor more information on this and the other specifications you can download the manual with a donation of $3 from Mike Butkus – money well spent. As luck would have it, I already have the 380 EX and so I had a go with this and managed to get some nicely fill-flashed shots at 1/250 th of a second.
If you partner it with a Canon 220 EX or 380 EX Speedlite, and move the switch on the flash to Hi, then it will sync with the flash all the way up to 1/2000 th of a second! Now, you will lose flash power at these higher speeds but if you are out in bright sunshine and looking for some fill-flash then you’re good to go.
However, it also has a neat flash trick up its sleeve. It also has a pop-up flash which syncs at 1/90 th of a second. In manual mode the camera defaults to centre-weighted metering. Unfortunately it is not user selectable but is AI-Focus in all PASM modes.Įxposure is calculated using a 35-zone evaluative meter for most modes, with partial being available when the * button on the back is pressed. There are seven focus points and focus is one-shot or AI-Focus (continuous) depending on the mode you choose. The viewfinder is nice and bright and has plenty of information to keep you on top of your picture taking. It has a plastic lens mount but it is certainly feels robust enough when I change lenses. In the hand the Canon EOS 300 is quite petite, smaller and lighter than my other EOS film SLRs (620, 1000FN and 30). So what has that got to do with the Canon EOS 300? Well, behind the polycarbonate facade lies a very well specified and enjoyable camera. And so instead of just being for the very well off such creature comforts were within reach of us, the great unwashed. In other words, the reason that the Ford Fiesta was the best car you could buy was not because it had oodles of power or because it was the last word in luxurious refinement but simply because you got an awful lot of car for not a lot of money. Features that you could only have got in an expensive, luxury model in the 1980s.
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But modern small cars are extremely well specified, with comfortable upholstery, electric windows and air conditioning as standard. In the 1980’s a base model car was really basic: plain seats, wind-up windows and a distinct lack of creature comforts. His point was that small cars had come a long way in terms of creature comforts. But what he actually said was, “the Ford Fiesta” (or whichever small car he happened to be driving at the time). In one of his asides to camera he asked what was the best car you could buy? Of course you might expect him to say a Ferrari, a Rolls-Royce or perhaps a Range Rover. You see, the Canon EOS 300 reminds me of something Jeremy Clarkson – he of Top Gear and The Grand Tour fame (or infamy depending on your view of JC) – once said. And that would have been a shame because it would have relegated the Canon EOS 300 to just being a film carrier which would not have done it justice. I could have done a “Five Frames …” with it but in reality it would simply have been “ Five Frames with whichever Canon lens I happened to have taken these pictures with”. It is a pretty plastic affair and is clearly aimed at the amateur photographer. Released in 1999 the Canon EOS 300 (also known as the Kiss III and Rebel 2000 around the world) arrived just as digital was starting to gain an expensive foothold in photography. I figured I’d run a roll of film through the camera and then get rid of it. I have enough EOS film cameras, I really don’t need another one, but a 28-105 lens (USM as it turned out) for £5? It was too good a deal to pass up, so I asked her to buy it. Yet another phone call from my wife from the local charity shop (or Charlie shop as my kids call them). “Hi, they’ve got a Canon EOS 300 with a 28-105 lens and they want £5 for it.
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