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#101
User Introduction / Hello from RI
January 27, 2013, 10:27:10 PM
I'm Bob from Rhode Island and I'm now using a T4i which replaced my XTi. 
My wife and I did weddings in the late 70's early 80's.  I also did some sports photos for a local club.  I tried some developing and liked it, not really enough to count.

Since then I just do weddings when asked and mostly if I feel physically and comfortable with the asking party.  So I guess that means very few.  Taking photo's of our grandchildren, pets, family stuff, etc. is mostly what I do.  My camera is usually on the coffee table ready to shoot.

When I purchased my first digital (small Kodak snapshot type in 98) I was hooked.  I was thrilled at being able to print an 8x10 during the wedding.  My Minoltas where the main cameras at the wedding.

I do miss using film cameras every shot had to count.  Everything was checked and set before you took the shot.  Now it is way to easy, snap it and fix it later.  You can take 100 photos to get the right shot. 
Now don't get me wrong I love all the the new features + all the ML stuff and being able to test each setting on a new photo instead of trying it on an otherwise good photo, waiting for it to be developed, the cost of even doing that was unthinkable.  Now in my case it's made me lazy and my quality suffers.  I'm hope having ML will get me back on track just learning to use it.

#102
ML is one of the first things I looked for when I got my T4i in Sept.  I knew from My XTi that Canon locks so many features.  Once those features where unlocked it was like I got a new camera. 

I'm kind of happy having to wait for ML.  It gave me time to get used to the basic feature from Canon that it came with.  Now I'm ready for ML and what ever great features it unlocks.