Canon was one of the market leaders with a dedicated range of lenses and other kit for their cameras, the 350D was very popular and its spcification seemed as good as the rest so I bought one.  Over the last year everything has worked easily and well and I like the relatively small physical size.

It came with the 17/55mm len which, after initial satisfaction due to my having nothing to to compare it with, started to show its limitations. I reasoned that with a top lens there would be nothing to blame for poor photographs but me so I bought a Canon 75-200 f4 L Series lens. It is wonderful.

To complete my collections of lenses I was bought a Canon 50mm f1.4 USM lens for my birthday. That too is wonderful.

After 6 months with these 3 lenses I have rather changed my mind. Having initially thought that the 70-200mm would be the ideal range for a lens, I now find that the 17/55mm suits many of the photographs I take so maybe Santa Claus will bring me a better lens in that range.

My wife bought me a Lowepro backpack which holds the camera, lenses and countless other bits and bobs such as a spare battery, spare flash cards, battery charger, card reader, lens clamp and cable release. Everything in its own compartment. The tripod is strapped to the side.

My 3 year old Dell desktop has handled the photographs well but the 60Gb harddrive is filling up so I’ve added a Maplin 120Gb external harddrive. My decent photographs are printed on an Epson Photo R800 and I have an old Epson for run of the mill printing.

Old photogrpahs have been scanned into the system using a flatbed scanner but where I have negatives worth the effort, I’ve scanned them using my son’s negative scanner but don’t have enough work to justify buying one.

I upload photos using Canon Zoombrowser because it came with the camera, Rawshooter to handle Raw files because it was recomended by a magazine and Photoshop Elements 2 because everbody else appeared to use it.

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