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    several photography questions...?

    1. You don't need a UV filter. See Fishmeister's answer. Get a good Circular Polarizer instead - they are truly useful. 2. I think what Canon charges for a lens hood, or that they charge at all for one, is outrageous. However, they are a good default choice and you won't have to worry...
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    How do you fire the pop up flash...?

    You can: 1. Use an optical slave trigger for the off camera flash that WON't trigger on a preflash. 2. Connect the off camera flash to the PC connector on the camera with a sync cable. No. In photography, what you need depends strictly on how you want to shoot your subject. What you are...
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    Is this the best way to learn photography?

    Actually, trial and error is really the only way you learn photography. It is the best, at least good and the worst way to learn photography. Which one it is depends on the context it is occurring in. In the formal environment, you are learning, through trial and error, the real dimensions of...
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    Event photography lighting advice?

    The venue itself, the proximity of reflecting surfaces, etc., and what kind of photographs are desired will determine that for you. Who is the end user of the images and what do they want to see? One style of shooting involves just on camera flash and it can be considered a style and it serves...
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    Packing dslr equipment for a camping trip?

    If you are using a backpack, I would put everything in the camera bag and put it in the pack on top where it is accessable. Fishmeister's idea for the plastic baggies is a good one. I've never had a problem shooting in the rain and both my camera and I have gotten soaked, but I wouldn't...
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    Is photography a good career?

    That's a hard question to answer. Perki's work is very good, I've seen some of it and the foundation upon which Perki's success is built was laid down in another economy. There are the resources to draw upon to weather the ups and downs. That doesn't sound like your situation. Without a...
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    when you edit your photo do you always keep a copy of the original?

    I convert everything to DNG format and put it on double layer DVD's after deleting the useless ones. The purpose of editing is to improve an image in some way. By definition of the purpose of editing, the original will always be 'worse' than the original some sense, won't it? Think about it...
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