Getting 1st DSLR

[k_wakasugi]

You'll like the camera. Buy it! I got mine for 650 + 200 for a 5 year warantee from ritz camera. Just don't bend the CF pins.

the xsi is great but i don't see it justifying spending $600 to upgrade from the xti...

unless you were talking to the OP. just looks like you were responding to einstein.

[apexede30]

the xsi is great but i don't see it justifying spending $600 to upgrade from the xti...

Oh hell no it isn't. The one good thing is the kit lens is an IS lens.

[Aptyp]

and xsi is only $100-200 more

[Stephen]

Basically, unless youre a real awesome photographer, just go with one good solid camera, just pick on what feels right and what price is right. i like canons and sony, ive use canons aplenty but i like my new sony [better than the old ones]. but you may like nikons, or olympus, out of peronal preference. So just buy what is good, with the features fitting what priorities you have.

[sumyungguy]

Why buy an xti or xsi when the used 20d/30d's are going for same if not cheaper? Megapixel's arent everything.....

[steinbachphoto]

Why buy an xti or xsi when the used 20d/30d's are going for same if not cheaper? Megapixel's arent everything.....

qft.


i own a 20D w/24-70/2.8L and have made posters that look way cleaner than a buddies with his xti. Megapixels are just a big marketing scheme camera companies are using to suck in the average person who doesn't know about cameras to spending more money

[Stephen]

qft.


I own a 20d w/24-70/2.8l and have made posters that look way cleaner than a buddies with his xti. Megapixels are just a big marketing scheme camera companies are using to suck in the average person who doesn't know about cameras to spending more money

+1

[einstein57]

I have no camera skillz at all. Never took any classes in school. Never even finished reading the manual. But here are a couple shot i took with the xti and a cheap fish eye adapter lens in low level lighting. Just to show you that a cheap slr, with cheap glass, and in the hands of someone who is not skilled at all can still take some ok shots.

[sumyungguy]

Im not saying the xti and xsi cant take ok, good, or excellent photo's. The camera only has a small amount to do with how well a photo looks, better/expensive camera equipment only creates higher image quality not quality images, that's the users job.

[einstein57]

From my experience when it comes to more expensive items, be it Televisions, bicycles, or cameras, the more features you have, the more likely you are to screw something up. I was just surprised i was able to get an image that was not completely black or completely blurry like i normally get with point and shoots.

[sumyungguy]

Funny thing is, I find the Rebels harder to use cause they dont have as many buttons :|.

[steinbachphoto]

Funny thing is, I find the Rebels harder to use cause they dont have as many buttons :|.

and they're way harder to hold, the grip is way to tiny

[blueapplesoda]

if you are on the cheap canon 30d + canon 28mm prime f/2.8 and you'd be set for some goodness. upgrade from there.

Ive been shooting with my 30d and a sigma 10-20 and it makes some wicked looking wide angle shots. For doing portraits i have a sigma 30mm 1.4.

10-20 i set down inside the trunk of an e30

[einstein57]

I think i just found the next lens for my shopping list. lol

[dinanm3atl]

Canon 10-22 is quite sweet! Hard choice between that and the sigma and the tokina!

Finally some other real recommendations come in here.