i am waiting for the Canon XS which i hear will be 200-300 cheaper than the XSi.

 

Both are good cameras and will do very well for you. I use Nikon cameras, I have liked them for a long time. My current bodies are a D70s and a D80, the D80 is an awesome camera for the money.

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^ Sweeet! I am for sure going to go with the D80 then-- now I just need to find the place that sells it for the cheapest amount!

 

The D80 is a great camera. I think they consider it to be a lower end professional camera.

I have the D50 myself, it's been discontinued for a while. But I managed to find a new one in the box at a Sears store and got it for $400 OTD.

 

i got a d40 kinda going into photography blind and not knkowing how to use the camera, and now know all its functions and can really take good pictures, so the d40 to me was easy to use and more simplistic, and my friend has a XTi and used it prior to the d40 and still like my d40 over it.

 

Beware that the D40 will not accept all lenses. It needs lenses that have their own auto focus motors.

 

yeah it doesnt have any autofocus built in, you can still use other nikon lens but you cant use auto focus without a lens with the autofocus motor. With the xti, their efs lenses cant be used in full frame canons so if you are planning to upgrade, dont use efs lenses.

 

Well, thanks for all the info guys.

I just bought a Canon Rebel XT on ebay along with a 28-90mm lens (as opposed to the kit lens which is a 18-55mm). The deal I got also included a 1gb compact flash card, 2 tripods (one table top and one full size), a carrying bag, a lens cleaning kit, and a memory card wallet.

All this was for $466.80. $11.80 of that I had to find in change haha.

 

^^ great deal

 

Definitely, AND, it's brand new. I was really amazed with the price. I think most places that I've found the camera with the kit lens and nothing else, it was usually like $500.

 

I ws going through the same dilemma about a year ago, i ended up going with the D40 however, I really liked the bigger screen it offered, but the XT is a fantastic camera. I have about a year and half undermy D 40 And im about ready to buy a new lense or 2. The kit lense is fantastic but has its limits i really want a fisheye but they don't make any AF-S ones yet, so i would have to manually focus which isn't a huge deal but when you spend the money you want it all to work.

 

^^^ Fo sho yo.

The D40 seemed cheaper almost everywhere I looked, but it's lack of automatic exposure bracketing was my main reason for going with the XT.

I really wanna be able to do stuff like this:




A friend of mine with the XT is looking to get a wide angle lens for his sometime soon. And the preacher at my church has a D80 I think.

 

^^^ Time exposures are one of the main reasons I chose to step up to a SLR camera. I have some great shots of Seattle at night with 15-25 second exposures. The XTI is great, I absolutely love it. Hope you are happy with yours!

 

That's an HDR image actually.

 

Yeah, it's HDR but it is also time exposed. Notice how the headlights are streaked? That's what I was referring to, like the image below:

 

oh i gotcha.

 

One question I have after seeing macro-lens's's's's available is this: Can you take macro shots without the actual macro lens? Or do you have to have the lens.

 

No you can still take macro shots, you just wont be able to focus as close as you would with a good macro lens. So a typical lense will do just fine as long as your not out bug hunting.

 

Cool beans yo.