Your Questions About Canon Digital Slr Reviews

rob answers:

Here’s a review that hasn’t been given. I own a 1000D and find it a versatile, easy to use, very well built camera that yields superb photos.

I use three lenses with mine, the kit at 18-55, a Tamron 18-200 and a Canon 75-300.

Further review is here. Read my notes please because not all of these were taken with my Canon.
Be aware I’m having excellent luck with night / time exposures, day time colors are brilliant and the camera is very easy and quick to operate – but, you’ve got to read the book and keep it handy for little questions that always seem to come up.

The first 3 shots I took with my Fuji 9000. Good Luck

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimsphotostuff/page1/

rob answers:

It’s old, but definitely still potent. I’d rather have a 20D than any of the modern digital rebel/xxxD/xxD series. The 20D is in Canon’s line of semi-professional cameras, and therefore brings you a great deal more useablility with it’s robust alloy chassis, 5fps continuous drive, pentaprism viewfinder, secondary control wheel, and greater selection of custom functions including all important second curtain sync with onboard flash,

Originally the 20D usually is kitted with Canon 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 II which wasn’t particularly spectacular lens. It isn’t easy to operate, and wasn’t particularly sharp and rather prone to vignetting and fringing was inconsistent.

Therefore it’s best to buy the camera body only and team it with the Canon 17-40mm f4L or a 24-105mm f4L IS both are formidable lenses from Canon’s L-series. Canon’s EF-S 17-85mm f4-5.6 IS is also a decent lens, but isn’t anywhere near as strong as the L’s.

You could also consider either the Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6, Canon’s EF-S 10-22, and Tokina 11-16mm lenses if you want extreme wide angle.

Also you may want a lens to pick a small bit of the environment out, and for that the 70-200mm f4L would do that job justice.

All of the lenses I’ve mentioned have distance scales, which are important to landscape photography, this allows you to focus on the hyperfocal point (you’ll want to print out a hyperfocal chart from the internet) which maximises the area of the image that is acceptably focused.

Furthermore you should spend some money on a decent high quality tripod, capable of supporting around 5kg.

rob answers:

That is the key, but downgrading your camera is not the way to go. You will loose far too many features (interchangeable lenses, the large sensor in the DSLR, VERY low shutter lag, well the list goes on and on).

I am a pro and I carry at least one DSLR and three lenses every where I go. I keep it secured in my car, out of view. I also have a little point and shoot for taking idea shots when I don’t have the DSLR in my backpack.

Keep your DSLR and buy a nice compact camera. You will notice the difference in the way they work soon enough.

rob answers:

They are both very good cameras for a beginner. What it really comes down to is which one is more comfortable in your hands and has the controls where they make sense to you. You can’t go wrong with either one. Both Canon and Nikon have tons of available lenses and accessories so you wont be limited which ever one you choose.

Spec wise they are practically the same. The only difference is that the Canon has live view. Which in my opinion is not a big deal. It can be useful in a studio setting or when mounted to a tripod but you should never hold a SLR like a point and shoot to take pictures. It is a sure fire way to get blurry shots.

rob answers:

As long as the lens is EF-mount, it will fit any EOS body digital or not.

This include all the after-market brands as well.

The only thing that you will need to watch out is whether the lens is EF or EF-S design. Which in your case, it really doesn’t matter.