kvan64 wrote:Welcome to the world of digital photography Grant. Canon does make great cameras. If you are going to take photos of bonsai trees, I recommend a cheap prime lens with reasonable large aperture (you don't need a zoom lens for it - zoom lens with large aperture are very expensive). It is suggested that taking bonsai without flash with make the pictures look more natural. This can be done by stop up the aperture. The result will be nice as the colour will be more natural and the tree will stand out from a nice background blur.
Cheers,
DK
you can get a canon 'ef 50mm f/1.8 II' prime for around $110 on a certain auction site and dont let the price tag fool you, this lense performs very very well for its price!! also i havn't read any reviews on the 60D yet but not long after the release of the 50D a lot of people were prefering the older 40D, i cannot remember the exact reasons why.. but in saying that you definitley have a bought a great camera!
however considering you still can't set the date you probably could have saved a few hundred bucks and bought a 450-550D which is an entry level camera but a camera still capable of producing some fantastic pics!! but of course you can progress and learn and eventually grow into that camera with some help, so i thought you might appreciate a couple of ebooks and an instructional dvd to help you understand your camera a bit better, they will definitley help you immensley! i should point out that they are for the 50D but will be relevant to your camera, i searched but there dosn't seem to be anything out about the 60D yet but it's only a mattter of time!!
in case you are not familiar with torrents and how to download them i will briefly explain: first you need to download and install utorrent (
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads ), after you have done that, you need to download the 3 the torrent files (
http://www.4shared.com/dir/2T2OkM3H/50D_torrents.html ) download the files individually (the download all files button requires paid membership) once the downloads starts select open, which will open the file in utorrent and automatically start downloading repeat this for all 3 files!!
the books should download within minutes but the dvd could take some time so everytime you are online just start the utorrent program to continue downloading the dvd, however just so you know the dvd is around 4.2GB so it is quite large, just make sure you have a big enough download limit so you dont end up with excess usage charges or bandwith throttling etc
hope this helps!! cheers