New hobby

I love taking photographs, I always have done. I've never really had the chance to sit down and learn the technology or jargon behind it, and develop the skills to consistently take good photographs though. It's a bit hard to learn this stuff on a point and shoot digital :)

So as an early birthday present from my wonderful wife, I've just purchased a new digital camera. It was actually a bundle of a new camera and two lenses.

The camera is a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, and it's coming with two lenses:

- EF-S 18-55mm II
- EF-S 75-300mm III




I also ordered a high speed compact flash card, and reader at the same time.

Now I just can't wait for it to arrive so I can get to use it!

Interestingly, shipping got delayed due to security checks ... both the vendor and American Express called me to confirm it's a real order, from a real customer with a real credit card. I imagine cameras are favourite purchases of people with stolen cards, so I definitely don't mind them double checking!