{"id":492,"date":"2007-04-06T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/bought-a-digital-rebel-xti-to-save-money\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T18:39:53","slug":"bought-a-digital-rebel-xti-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/bought-a-digital-rebel-xti-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought a Digital Rebel XTi to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the wedding photographers gave us their budgets, and all of them were full of limitations (hours, number of pictures, bla bla bla),<br \/>\nand the cheapest for only the pictures and no post-production costed about $1500. I started looking online for a better camera and do the wedding pictures ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is my old camera<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/233\/448538320_d2b34d90bf.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my new camera.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/203\/448555372_0eaf9ac074.jpg?w=640\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/cameras\/canon\/eos_digital_rebel_xti\/\">Click Here to see the specs<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\">Flickr.com<\/a> which ranks it as the #2 Camera from Canon being the number one an older model, which if you see the Flickr user graphs has started to decay so this Digital Rebel XTi is likely to become the number one camera from Canon in Flickr.com<\/p>\n<p>For a total of $990 (including taxes), I got myself what I&#8217;d call a professional camera with lense, 4.0gb compact flash card, SD\/CF usb reader and extra one extra battery.<\/p>\n<p>Now I gotta learn how to use it well before the wedding, but being in New York it&#8217;s gonna be a lot of fun taking pictures with the Rebel XTi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the wedding photographers gave us their budgets, and all of them were full of limitations (hours, number of pictures, bla bla bla), and the cheapest for only the pictures and no post-production costed about $1500. I started looking online for a better camera and do the wedding pictures ourselves. This is my old camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-geeklife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-7W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":229,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/why-flickr-is-so-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":492,"position":0},"title":"Why Flickr is so cool","author":"gubatron","date":"January 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I just saw one of my pictures on flickr.com, then I clicked on \"More Properties\", I hadn't paid attention to that small link at all before. 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