"The dark area is caused by the lens hood of my 17-40. It's simply too big for the built-in flash. Actually the shadow is there even when the hood is removed."

"The built-in flash of 40D seems to be reasonable. The 70-200 is really fast and sharp!"

"The right looks the same as the one I converted to sRGB for web publishing. Something must be off here."

"Shown are exactly the same RAW picture. One viewed in Adobe Lightroom and one in Google Picasa. The original image is in Adobe RGB space. LR uses Pro Photo RGB and Picasa uses sRGB. I didn't expect to see such a big difference. Obviously this comparison picture itself is in sRGB and no problem from viewing the original one (on the left). There must be some problem in my workflow. hmm, tricky ..."

"Stuff I'm planning to carry to AK. They're really really heavy, especially with Chris' 70-200. But it's such a nice lens one can't live w/o."