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- plash0
Canon EOS 300D Rebel or Canon EOS 350D Rebel XT
i *love* mine and the parts/accessories you can get are limitless.
Now, they are older models but you can get them for under 500bills
and at least with the 300D you can do a firmware upgrade to update it.350D
300D
- Hombre_Lobo0
taxiguerrilla
That is a very sexy E-P2 you have their. Did you not get the electronic view finder with it? or did you go for the body only? i hear its extremely capable, high res and comparable to DSLR view finders, save up for it! :D
- Yeah, I got it, but 1. it is really different from an optical viewfinder; 2. I always forget to take it with me when I go out :)taxiguerrilla
- vaxorcist0
for non-photo geeks, I'm leaning Nikon these days, after shooting a few gigs with D300s comparing to Canon 5D and 30D........ and even an old Nikon D50, once I got used to it....
Both the Nikons seemed to require less carefulness in making sure your focus is really correct.... shooting casually, like most people would, I found a slightly higher number of correctly focussed images for both Nikons....
the Canon's seemed more likely to demand that I use only the center point and focus/recompose to get a nicely high ratio of correctly focussed shots in the varyingly random conditions I was shooting....
- interested to hear that, never anyone give that feedback. (i shoot nikon)Samush
- you know that canons have a 9 point focus system right? and all of these work to focus your subject, not just the center oneMiguex
- I have a 5D and I agree the focusing points outside the central one are less reliable esp. in low light.raf
- high_touch0
A good friend bought the Canon 550D, and was so blown away by it, he went and bought a 2nd one for his wife. Despite my endorsement of the Pentax k-x, I think the 550D is how I'm going to go.
- vaxorcist0
you can compare camera image sensor scores for RAW files at:
http://www.dxomark.comthis may or may not matter to most people, but for critical work, it's nice to know how a camera's sensor does in low light, dynamic range, etc....
- BaskerviIle0
Is there a good alternative to the Canon 5DII. I really want to start shooting HD with slr lenses, I've seen some amazing footage.
Is there a cheaper option?- Canon 7D and 550D do 1080P, slightly more depth of field, 1.6 aps-c sensors, but very nice too..vaxorcist
- 5D II has better low-light, but even the 550D has a good low light sensor compared to most video cameras...vaxorcist
- just beware DSLR video is very different to shoot, need tripod, manual focus, carefulnessvaxorcist
- http://www.qbn.com/t…Miguex
- you can shoot without tripod with slr no problem, I mean unless your lens is super heavyMiguex
- sherm0
used XTi in my opinion