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Are you a working professional? I shoot for a living and shoot around 8-10k photos a week. I shoot a lot of action sports and weddings. Both put a lot of demand on my gear. What makes you an expert? Back to the topic....I agree if he's shooting with basic gear, probably won't notice the...

Megapixels are not a big deal. 8.2 is plenty. When you pack more megapixels onto a low end sensor (like the junk CCD sensor the d40x uses) you will get bad noise above 800 ISO. I'll take a quality CMOS sensor at 8.2mp anyday. I have blown up photos up 24x36 that I shot with my first digital...

20D's are ghetto cheap now. 450-600 will get you a kit setup now on the use market. here is a link to a good forum http://photography-on-the.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Pick up a used Canon 20D for 500 and it will kick the crap out of a XT/XT/ d40/d40x/d50.

I'll take the old man award: 26, 5' 9"

Depends on the quality of the pirated software you downloaded. If its cracked good enough, you should just need the serial #. If it isn't, you have to activate it and Adobe will probably not activate it.

Alien bees are heavy for doing location shots. Plus you need to be close to a powersource so you can plug them in. Just not practical for sports shooting.

For those hating on the Canon's XT build quality..... Skip the XT and just buy a used 20D. Those are really great camera's and feel amazing in your hands. You can find them for 450-500 bucks and it will blow away any of the cheapo DSLR's. In response to the technology bit....Having Canon's...

speaking of batteries. I have found the ones off of ebay to be just as good as the Canon brand ones. They are a lot cheaper too.

oh man thats ghetto, i'm sure it will come over to Canon soon. HSM is really nice to have, the non-HSM Lens is still good, just not as quick when it comes to AF

move off campus. heh. thats pretty lame though. 2gb isn't really all that much. Is that just for your dorm room?

Do all your whitebalance and color corrections in a batch with either Adobe lightroom or Adobe Bridge. That will keep your colors the same across all the photos. Then like they said, just layer and mask. Its a pretty easy thing to do once you figure it out. As far as actually shooting the...

Take a look at the sigma 24-70 2.8 EX. You can find them used for around 350-400. I actually have one as a backup to my canon 24-70L. EX is sigma's "pro" line and optically its a pretty compariable to the canon. The Autofocus is accurate, but not as fast and silent as the Canon's USM type...

Your spot on. I actually started shooting with the old Original Digital Reble (300d) and it worked just fine down to about -20 to -30F. The trick really is to bring at least 3 batteries. 1 for use in your camera and 2 to keep in a pocket thats close to your body. In the cold the batteries...

Whats your camera system? whats your budget?

If this is going to be your all around lens, the 17-85 is going to be your best bet. Its slow though, so don't expect to be able to shoot for shit indoors without a good flash.

I have been asked this a couple times now via messages, so I thought I'd share it in here as well. For Pocket wizards, I use pretty old school flash by Sunpak call the 383 super. Its a pretty basic flash and is really cheap at 80 bucks a unit. I see them being sold used for around 30-50...

A fair amount of Pro level "L" lenses from Canon do. However you have to have a body that also has weather sealing for it to really work well. Currently your only going to find that on the pro level bodies (1ds and 1d model lines) from canon. Nikon has it on the d200 and soon to be released...

I don't use UV filters on any of my lenses. My thoughts: I use high end lenses and I have hard time putting another piece of lesser quality glass in front of my $1k+ high quality lens glass. I use lens hoods for all my lenses and that has been enough. The cost of 4-6 good UV filter...

I use Pocket wizard Plus II's. They are amazing and I highly recommend them to anybody who want to go wireless. Essentially you need at least 2 of them. The Plus II's and the multimax's can go both ways (trans, receive). You put on on the hotshoe of your camera and then one hooks into your...