Just purchased a cannon 1000d, anyone got any tips? anyone know of any cool stuff you can do with it? I'm just learning at the moment, going to be purchasing a fixed 50 lense for it soon for my fishing!
I've had a 400d for about 3 years now and its a fantastic bit of kit, you'll be very pleased with the 1000d.
To start off with I would definitely suggest using the P mode, gives you some control over focus modes, setting flash to fire or not etc.
Then start having a play with aperature priority and shutter speed priority modes to get the effect of blured backgrounds (wide aperature - low F number) and also night time photography (long shutter time).
The 50mm F1.8 lense is meant to be superb, something I plan on getting soon