Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

New Canon gear announced this week:

• EF-S 60mm f2.8 Macro USM. Announcement. The EF-S part upsets me because I don't really see the interests, but since it is compatible with extension tubes, it may be able to be used on a film body with those extensions. Needs to be tried.
• Digital Rebel XT / EOS 350D. Announcement, Preview at dpreview.
• EOS 20Da, to be used for IR photography. Announcement at dpreview. Apparently Japan only.

I'm tempted to say everyone should, as says The Raw Truth.

From my perspective, I'll start shooting RAW when I'll have bigger memory card ; my 512MB is simply not enough. I still have the option to do it on a case by case basis. But I'll shoot in mixed mode: RAW + JPEG best quality. Some benefit of shooting in JPEG (all but low size of the files) with full benefits of RAW shooting: you can still process the RAW file later, but you have a ready to use JPEG file. The only problem is that the memory capacity of your flash goes down dramatically. On my EOS 20D, I go from 110 frames to 38 frames (average) on a 512MB CompactFlash.

That said, I was already questionning myself if I should do that, this article just made me see the light.