Thank you both, that makes alot of sense. My friend has a Nikon D100, and though the Rebel has a higher megapixel rating, he claimes his images are 300dpi, but now I see the difference.

I will not use RAW anymore, for a while. I only have a 256 meg card, CF1, and it is very slow. A RAW image takes about 3 seconds to write to the card. I can only get 4 shots in succession before it has to write. I am thinking of getting a 1gb Lexmark 40x card... those seem to be pretty fast.

I have been reading my manual more, but there is alot to learn for someone not used to REAL photography. I still have no idea what the settings DO, I get what they are, but not how to use them to get results I want.

So if someone get's bored, it'd be great if you could maybe give me some simple explanations of what these are and how they work, and how they work together:

ISO

Apeture

Shutter Speed

Fstop

white balance

exposure


I am giving myself a week and a half to learn what that stuff means, shouldn't be too hard. I Am sure "field application" takes years to learn, but at least I'll know what to do if I want... say, a motocross action shot at night... or a wedding shot in the sunlight with the background totally blurred... or a panorama with a huge depth of field.. I know what it all means, but I have no idea what settings get those results.

Thanks again!!!