I did enjoy them once when you 1st posted them, but now I am really having a hard time getting them to load. I only manage to see 10% of the video and then it gets stuck.

I guess this might be due to my poor connection to the “rest-of-the-world” (I live in China) and that the video from your side stops streaming after a some reasonable time…

Could you please release the videos in another format so that I can download them and share them with my friends?

Thanks!

While I don’t mind the joke about the kit lens as paperweight I actually find it quite good as a lens (and poor as a paperweight–too light to hold even paper down). Yes it is slow, but the photos are sharp (there are technical reviews online that support this claim) and did I mention is is really light?

Although I’ve had my Canon Digital Rebel for almost two years now, I learned more watching the XTi video than I have gleaned from any other single source. I did a blog post about it earlier tonight (http://telhajj.com/index.php/2007/04/15/why-is-photography-so-hard/).

Photography is fun to experiment with, but there is a huge learning curve to overcome. It’s getting over that initial hump that’s the problem. I think I was a portion of the way prior to watching these videos but this brought it together for me (especially the XTi walkthrough). I read the little book that came with my camera end-to-end and had even poked around on photo.net some, but I still hadn’t figured out how to use the light meter on my camera.

Good job!

I would second adding these to Google video. I would also recommend adding the option to download them in some kind of sane format via bittorrent. Both options should facilitate distribution while not punishing your servers. This is important so that people (read: me) can download a copy and watch it on whatever mobile rig they have on a bus, plane or subway.

Thanks!

Specifically: I thought the approach seemed simple enough to hold the interest of raw beginners, but quirky enough to be worth watching even if you know a little bit about photography. (e.g. I’ve never seen a medium-format camera, so it’s nice to see one being used in the demonstration.)

Unlike many of the video blogs one sees on the Web these days, your tutorials are well lit, have decent audio quality, make good use of editing, take actual advantage of the visual medium, and stick to the point.

I liked the fact that you introduced Bonnie at the start of the second clip. She was a nameless woman of mystery during the first clip.