New boy in town

[cliveanne]

I have recently purchased a new camera, Good Friday 18th April, EOS600D. I am confused by the term "Rebel T3i",The box my camera came in has no mention of the  "Rebel T3i" neither does the handbook. The camera was brought as a 'bundle' EOS600D body, Canon zoom lens EF-S 18-55 1:3.5-5.6 III  58mm and  Canon zoom lens EF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 III 58mm.

I see there is an update for the firmware, how do I go about doing this please, or will it not be needed?

I have used a bridge over the past years, and I felt it was time to expand my interest in photgraphy. I have recently brought two UV filters as protection for the lenses and will be collecting my lens hoods on Tuesday. So far, I have found the camera faily easy to get on with, I am still climbing the learning curve, and have quite a long way to go. Once I am feeling compitent with the camera, I shall be looking into taking RAW and editing the same. My editing skills are what could be considered as quite basic. I use two programs, Photoshop Elements 10, and Serif  PhotoPlus X6. I sometimes use a specific program to perform a task, then switch to the second progrm to finish the job. I find that one program can make certain tasks easier than the other. RAW on the other had is a diferent kettle of fish

[ebiggs1]

"... but my income is a fixed pension, so every penny has to work twice as hard."

Lightroom and Photoshop CC can be had for $9.99 per month.  You really can not buy PS any longer.  Adobe made a legacy version of CS6 but some people have informed me it is no longer sold.   Personally I have not checked recently but if it is still for sale it will be very expensive.  Like $600+ bucks and no discounts.

If you go the PSE route, which am recommending, as an amateur, you do not need LR or PS.  PSE has everything included.

LR and PS simply duplicate most of, and likely all, the featuers you will ever need.

BTW, welcome to world of fixed income as I am right there with you!  

[cliveanne]

Thank you for a most informative post. I shall certinly be checking my Elements for any updates.

I have just updated Elements this is what I now have, version 10. (20110831.m.17215) which means not a great deal to me. I see no mention of ACR. I have also downloaed the "Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 10" PDF, something else to get my teeth into it would seem. 

I have 3 meory cards by Fujifilm, 8GB full HD rated @10 (read speed?) plus 2 other low rated cards which I never use, they will be fine for my wife's camera, which is only used now and again 

As for disc space, I have 567 GB free of 683GB  My laptop is Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC x64-based PC

I also have a standalone Seagate 1TB  drive, so space is not a big problem just yet.

Thank you for your interest in this.

Regards.

C.

[cliveanne]

You deserve the kudos for your last remark, it put a smile on my face.

I have just updted Elements 10, I see that RAW can be processed in all my programs. I think that one at a time should keep me out of mischief. 

Thank you for your input.

C.

[cliveanne]

Thank you. I missed your input somehow

[cliveanne]

Good to know, thank you

[cliveanne]

Thank you all for your input