Day Hikers at Ireland Lake. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This group of hikers had come up for the day from their base camp on the Tuolumne River in Lyell Canyon.
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Fletcher Lake and Vogelsang Peak
Fletcher Lake and Vogelsang Peak. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This is another photo from last weekend’s pack trip out of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. This picture was taken at sunset and includes the lower end of Fletcher Lake in the foreground and Vogelsang Peak in the distance, slightly obscured by haze from a nearby forest fire.
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Lyell Canyon at Dusk
Lyell Canyon at Dusk. Yosemite National Park. August 26, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
The John Muir Trail leaves Yosemite’s Tuolumne Meadows via Lyell Canyon, following the Lyell fork of the Tuolumne River to cross the Sierra crest at Donohue Pass. This photo was taken at sunset near the junction of the Muir Trail and the lateral trail to Ireland Lake. Due to the wide range between the still-sunlit peaks and the dark, forested foreground this is a composite of two different exposures.
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Canon Prices Dropping?
I see today that the Canon Digital Rebel XT (my camera) and the 20D are both on sale at considerably reduced prices at the Dell Home Store. The XT is available for about $700 and the 20D is available for $1125. Both are body-only and these prices require coupons.
In the past, I’ve seen Dell offer low prices like this when a product is first introduced (to grab the initial sales perhaps, but not in this case), when a product is going to replaced by something newer (it could happen), or just because.
I considered the Rebel XT and the 20D before I upgraded by digital camera earlier this year. I could have gotten either but for my purposes, the XT turned out to be a better choice than the 20D. The smaller and lighter body are a definite advantage since I often use the camera while hiking or backpacking. Not incidentally, the XT fits into a smaller case as well. (I use the Tamrac Zoom 14.) If the 20D took better pictures I might have made a different decision, but the image quality of the XT is essentially identical to that of the 20D. The 20D does have a more flexible and powerful interface, or so I hear, but this isn’t a big deal for the kinds of photography I usually do.
The Canon EF-S 17mm-85mm IS lens works well with this camera and is usually all I need. (Not that I couldn’t think of ways to spend a lot of money on additional lenses if given the opportunity. ;-)
Now, if the price on the just-announced Canon 5D (12.8 megapixel, full-frame, and about the size and weight of the 20D) would just drop by an equivalent amount…
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