Yes they're considered to be in the same class so to say.
Along with the Nikon D300 and the Canon 40D/50D.

Although that said they don't offer the same so compare them wisely.
One feature for example the AF adjustments you can do with the K20D might be worth more then what the a700 has to offer.

I really like the first shot, maybe some more depth and sharpness would do it good. The rest is very good, colours composition ect.

Second one is not working for me, the wood is distracting and like Jackie said composition is more then rules.

Maybe this might help you link

Yeah it's so subjective sometimes, 50% loves it and the other 50% would have done it completely different.
At least it keeps thing interesting that way

Because you didn't wrote a comment on the effect but the typical photo comment.
I thought the photo was to bland on his own so use some effects.
Since it's rather subtle in this one I really like it.

One other photo that went through the same processes, look at the eye to see what I mean.
Once again you can click on it.

It depends on the course I believe.
I also did advance one and one did dropped out because she couldn't control the camera correctly.
They will assume you know how the camera work and you will not be using scene modes either, most used mode were Av and manual.

Also the focus was not on getting a correct exposure but to correctly compose the shot and play with the possibilities like using different lighting and such.

I remeber one day that we went pretty wild with water, the floor was completely soaked. During that day nothing has being told how we much do something. He sometimes suggested an idea but that was never about camera settings.
This is one of the shot from that day.



Please note this was my situation and course can be very different, I was free to follow a lesson to see if the course was for me. You could contact them and ask if it's alight to drop by.

The DA L looks like this.


They have a grey ring and the one in the photo has a green one and it doesn't say in the name it's a L version, so it would be the normal if we would go on their description.
If the product would be different then what they say then you can send it back I believe.

I belief there was a suggestion to make a list of members that would be willing to do 1:1 with other (beginning) members.

We could go on with that idea of course if there is ear to it but I'm sure that if you write a topic that you would want to meet up someone to help you, I don't think you need to wait long before you've an answer.


Angela, the camera you would try out will have Av, Tv and manual mode and really that would be all you need.
Read a bit on shutterspeed and aperture and try to get what you know about them in practice.
Av would be the mode to control aperture, the camera will do the rest so don't worry.
Tv would be for shutterpseed control.
When you get the hang of those you can give Manual a spin and then you see that all comes together and why a more advance camera might be easier since you've more direct controls.

If you want we can write some assignments that you might do to experience the effects.

Thank you Gareth, you haven't look at it in full view yet *click* on it
I'm wandering what it would do if I would print it A3 size.

I was hoping the flower on the left would be enough out of the focus point to make it a feature rather then an attention getter, it seems I might have judge that wrongly.

Pete, several comments made that point already and some of them are mine.
I do believe however that the more advance cameras might look a bit daunting when you have only used P&S before.
It's quite a big leap going from P&S to DSLR and when looking at the specs the K-X looks more familiar then the K20D does for them.

If someone considering a DSLR could meet up with a member and shoot a day with the camera, they would have an idea what we're talking about.
Since all you actually need is Av, Tv and manual mode. The other ones are basicly just features which can be handy sometime though but not needed.

Alrighty, I believe these are pretty good what do you think? link

Trying some things with photoshop and I wonder what your thoughts are about it,
so what do you think?