Introducing: the DSLR

Nearly a year ago, I took the plunge to digital capture and bought a Canon 20D, a digital SLR. I had been waiting for digital cameras to get to the point that I could feel that I wasn't compromising image quality by shooting straight to digital, instead of shooting to film and scanning the results. When the 20D came out with 8 megapixels and strong reviews, I figured the time had come.

I have found it enormously liberating to shoot straight to digital. The wait and cost that go with film developing are gone; I can go over my images as soon as I get home. Also gone is the tedious scanning process. It used to take me at least half an hour to mount, scan, touch up, and correct a single film image. Now, I have immediate access to the highest-quality version of all my images, immediately.

This was not by any means the first image I took with my shiny new DSLR, but it seemed like a good, iconic introduction image.

Update: This image was entered in the Photo Friday Challenge under the theme "Delicate".