Camera Canon Slr

Have always wanted a SLR camera but on a budget. I am doing a design course and there is a photography module in it, we use a Canon camera (think it is a 5D but not sure) but I would like to get my own camera. Have done some research and Canon seems to be the best make.

Looking to buy a good quality camera that will last and produce good pictures.

Also if anybody has any tips on good lens for either camera. Thanks!

Would say you are probably still better off using the 5D that you use on your course, that camera is miles better than both of these cameras.

2009-02-20 10:31:58 by step_hen_90

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im trying to settle an argument with my brother. i say canon because i have a canon slr digital camera but i dont really know much about nikon...soooo help!!!
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Depends on what you want to do...
Canon has nothing that can compare to the Nikon F6. Spec and tech wise that camera is probably the best 35mm film slr ever made.
Now going back in time, both companies have gone back and forth with the 'best' camera. I love some of the older Canon manual cameras, and Nikon ones. Now because I still use Nikon digitals, I'm using my older Nikons more than my old Canons, because I can use a 30 year old lens just fine on my Nikon D3. I carry a beat up Nikon F3HP in my bag along with my D3.

2009-08-01 20:09:42 by Andrea c

Price: $350.00 $89.98

Compatible with Canon SLR/DSLR cameras including 30D, 40D, 50D, 300D, 350D, 400D, 450D, 500D, EOS Rebel XTi, EOS Rebel XS, EOS Rebel XSi, EOS Rebel T1i, T2i ...
T-mount Connection Standard 23.2mm
Canon cameras with this 2X adapter have a magnification powers between 12X and 15X depending on the CMOS sizes of the cameras

I plan on buying a Canon EOS 450D and two lenses, a tripod and a camera bag. It's my first SLR so I figured I should get the equipment!
Is it safe to ship an SLR camera? Would there be any damage to the sensor and such?

So far,Amazon and B&H Photo seems like the best picks.

If you already made up your mind as to exactly what you are getting, there is no point in getting it in a local store, unless you can get it cheaper.

Amazon is an amazing retailer in that respect. Very good and flexible return policy, should you have problems with it, they usually ship pretty fast, and they are usually cheaper than brick and mortar stores.

Also a few notes on previous answers:
1. Amazon only started charging tax to New York state residents, because of a law the state recently passed that re-defined what physical presence in state is. Amazon is also suing New York state claiming the law is ill-written, and should be repealed.

2. Be very careful with pricegrabber and others. There are many scam shops online that advertise low price, but then pull you into buying overpriced accessories and/or "upgrading" your camera to something else. Always use http://www.resellerratings.com/ to check the reputation of a dealer you buy from. Stay away from anyone rated below 8 or so. And read the reviews, see what the complaints are all about.

Good luck!
You've picked great camera, so you have a lot of fun ahead of you! Enjoy!

LEM.

2008-07-23 17:47:53 by superstar

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Ok i got Canon SLR camera and Im looking for a Macro Lense. I need a good quality and long term lense. So please help me to get a good lense. Thank you.
and what do i need to look for in the macro lense?

We really need more information to answer. Or I guess the answer should be- what do you want to photograph?

If you want really high magnification, the best way to do it is Canon's 65mm MP-E lens, but that's $800 and it can't even focus OUT past 1:1, so you couldn't even get most flowers into the frame- you couldn't shoot a rose with it.

A cheap way to get fairly high quality macros covering a large range of sizes including really high magnification (5:1 or greater) is to buy a macro bellows, a reversing ring, and whatever step-up or step-down rings you need to put your lenses on the reversing ring. This has the advantages of being cheap (everything for $60 or so getting cheap Chinese stuff off eBay), versatile, and pretty high quality, but it had the disadvantage of being a relative pain to lug around, set up, and use.

Also doing it on the cheap, there's extension tubes, which can be used with or without reversing rings.

Then there's several Canon macro lenses that don't macro anywhere near as much as MP-E, and there's a lot of third party macro lenses. Few of these will even take you in to 1:1, if that, but then maybe that's all you need.

Another good way to do macro fairly conveniently, without getting into bellows and reversing and all that, and still cheaply, is to buy a high-quality old manual focus lens and an adapter. Very high quality Canon FD mount macro lenses can be picked up cheaply on eBay. Generally you don't want to adapt FD lenses to an EOS camera, because EOS uses a shorter focal length than FD, so to focus to infinity, you need a lensed adapter, which reduces your image quality. But with Macro, focusing to infinity is a moot point, so you can buy a cheap FD-EOS adapter, take out the lens in the adapter, and mount a high quality old Canon FD macro lens on it. The unlensed adapter will actually increase your magnification.

There are many ways to go, offering many combinations of quality, price, magnification, and convenience. The easiest thing is to just buy some random Canon Macro lens, but if you want to make an informed decision, there's a whole lot to know. And the first thing is to start with what sort of stuff you want to shoot.

2008-03-06 08:39:02 by kolin v

I'm looking for a new camera to shoot artistic photos and am unsure which would be better to buy.

the canon 450D is one i bought for my xmas and its a pretty good camera for keen amateurs,only problem is its not built as strongly as the more professional canon cameras,sorry cant say anything about the olympus have always used the canon cameras and lenses, as i think they are the very best.

2010-01-11 10:47:41 by Kate Limont