Last night I bought myself a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (a.k.a. a big-ass digital camera). This, my friends, is one serious piece of technology. Very impressive. This review is much more comprehensive than I could ever be...
Of course, I took a bunch of pictures to try it out!
Here is a picture of our house, as of this morning, in the highest resolution this baby can do. This is 8 megapixels, so 3456x2304 resolution. This file was tranfered to jpeg from the original RAW format after tweaking with the white balance a little. Canon provides the software to do that, of course. Honestly, the software isn't half bad.
The coolest piece of software included (in my personal opinion) is the picture merging utility. You give it a bunch of pictures, tell it you took the pictures from 
the same spot by simply turning the camera around and it "stitches" them together into one panoramic view. Super easy, works very well. I'm rather impressed with that one. To view the image correctly, since my site forces a picture size, click on the small picture here (it will display the picture in larger format) then click on the larger format picture to view the original picture (with the correct aspect-ratio).
The next step is to figure out how well these pictures will actually print. I found a place in Calgary, called Vistek, that will print them to, apparently, 20x30 inches with no noticeable loss of quality. I'm not entirely convinced, though very hopeful, and we'll be doing some test runs to see how it comes out. I'll let y'all know.
