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Photography Question?

I have recently setup a portrait photography studio in my home. I was using a Pentax ist DL 6.1MP Digital SLR to take them. I decided to purcahse a canon rebel 400 Xti 10MP Digital SLR. I seem to get batter pics with my Pentax. I am considering selling my Canon – but I want to give this camera a chance. Any experiences on these two cameras would be helpful. Any suggestions on how to take good portraits with this camera or my Pentax would also be appreciated as well. I should add that I have been using my Pentax film camera for years and switched over to digital media last year. I have taken both cameras to do wedding photography and still my Pentax outshines the Canon when comparing the photos taken by both.. Funny thing is I am using a SunPak mount flash on my Pentax and a Canon Speedlite 400 or 430 on the Canon and the Pentax still does better. Help!!!

I strongly suggest investigating
non-film cameras. ( digital)

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