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Congrats on the new camera. Guess you didn't want to bother w/ RAW+JPEG then. [img]images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
$300 is a great deal for PS CS. I paid $375 recently for the complete CS Premium suite through my sister, who works for Parsons. Would've just gone w/ PS CS alone for $275, but figured the rest of that suite is worth the extra $100 even though I have no real plans to use them yet.
I guess you didn't want to wait and check out PS Elements v3 to see if that's good enough for you.
Don't know how PS CS ACR RAW converter performs by default for the Canon 20D, but it definitely needs some serious tweaking for Nikon D70. I get much better results from Nikon's RAW converter when leaving settings at default or using some basic adjustments -- heck, even the in-camera JPEGs look better. I just might end up using the Nikon converter as the RAW plug-in inside PS CS -- yes, the ACR RAW converter is just an interchangeable plug-in. I guess I need to do some research to see what people have found to be good default settings for ACR RAW converter. OR maybe Adobe will come out w/ better defaults for the D70.
Also, not sure if 20D offers custom tone curves, but they don't seem to be supported by the ACR RAW converter. There is another 3rd party startup that's churning out software specifically to take good advantage of Nikon's custom tone curves feature -- RAWMagick -- and I might end up adding that to my setup.
FWIW, nowadays, I'm starting to look more at lighting gear. I finally bought the pro flash for the D70 and am looking at AlienBees for potential studio-type lighting.
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