Brand of Choice: Canon
Body: Rebel XT
Lense(s):18-55, 75-300 lens hood
Filters:UV, Polarizer
Flash(s)none
Grip: Canon BG-E3
Cards: GXT 140X 2GB CF, SanDisk 512mb CF
Type of shooting Anything, and everything.

I'm rocking the 20D now. Forgot all about this thread.

Tom, the Canon 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM lens worked fucking fab-tab-ulous out west!!!

Lots of flexibility with that lens Mike? How do you like the IS lenses now?

It worked great driving through the Rockies...I'll be posting up my shots later this week...I took almost 300 of them.

Originally Posted by Kace

It worked great driving through the Rockies...I'll be posting up my shots later this week...I took almost 300 of them.

that's pretty much exactly how many I took driving from Calgary to Kelowna... so beautiful out there!

Originally Posted by Kace

Tom, the Canon 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM lens worked fucking fab-tab-ulous out west!!!

Awesome. Glad your loving it.

Actually I moved all the photos onto my computer last night and I took 418 of them. I began converting them and got about 20 or so done...

Originally Posted by Kace

Actually I moved all the photos onto my computer last night and I took 418 of them. I began converting them and got about 20 or so done...

Not sure I understand what you mean, 398 were bad?

Originally Posted by Guess

Not sure I understand what you mean, 398 were bad?

No, it means I have about 398 more photos to go through and convert and resize.

Well, after a short departure, thinking that a prosumer point and shoot would cut it.. I am back to the DSLR world.

After selling the boat, I ended up picking up a Canon 5D and a 24-105 F4L Lense. Next in line is a 16-35L F2.8, and im done (I really, really hope)

Iam I the only Nikon shooter here????

Brand of Choice: NIKON

Body: D80

Lense(s):
18-135mm f3.5-4.5 Nikkor
50mmf1.8 Nikkor
70-300mmf4-5.6 Sigma DG
70-200mmf2.8 Sigma EX
kenko extension tubes

Filters: Hoya/Tiffen

Flash(s) SB-800 Nikon Speedlight

Cards: 1X 2GB Kingston , 4X 1gb PNY SD cards

Bags: Lowepro EX160 shoulder bag, Tamrac Adventure 9 backpack

Type of shooting
racing, people, wildlife, car shows ect ect. Almost anything I can get a shot of.

BTW... as my point and shoot I have a Canon S2IS aswell.

It appears you are Bill, I considered switching to Nikon, but then I realized they don't offer a good camera. :P

No seriously, Nikon doesnt make a full frame sensored camera.. thats a bummer.

Originally Posted by Guess

It appears you are Bill, I considered switching to Nikon, but then I realized they don't offer a good camera. :P

No seriously, Nikon doesnt make a full frame sensored camera.. thats a bummer.

rumors are maybe this year... but well see... i dont think many people would even relize the diffrence. I went with Nikon because it felt better in my hands then the Rebel XTi. Now the bigger Canons 5D, 30D ect all are extreme cameras, and were outta my price range.

wow Tom!! a 5D!

Originally Posted by Bill

rumors are maybe this year... but well see... i dont think many people would even relize the diffrence. I went with Nikon because it felt better in my hands then the Rebel XTi. Now the bigger Canons 5D, 30D ect all are extreme cameras, and were outta my price range.

Well, here is my issue with that thought. I am the sort of guy that likes to have most perspectives dealt with when/if im shooting, so with my previous camera, a 20D, I went out and gathered up a bunch of lenses to fill that perspective, then I tried out a 5D, told myself I would sell everything I have and start fresh with a 5D.

A 20D with a 17-35mm L Lense, and a 28-105mm lense gives me the same perspective as a 5D with my single 24-105mm L lense.

At 24mm, I am significantly wider then I was on the 20D at 17mm (with 1.6x mangification effect) I am only at 27.2mm

Not to mention the fact that any Image Stabilizing Lenses that I had, were almost useless as image stabilizers have alot of issues with the 1.6x magnification.


Thats my major gripe with the whole magnification factor thing.

I have been able to cut down from 4-5 lenses, to 1 current lense, and the plan to buy a 100-400 for car events.

Originally Posted by KWghost

wow Tom!! a 5D!

Ya, not a cheap camera, but worth every penny. You definately get what you pay for, same thing goes lense wise. I will never again buy a non L lense.

Originally Posted by Guess

Well, here is my issue with that thought. I am the sort of guy that likes to have most perspectives dealt with when/if im shooting, so with my previous camera, a 20D, I went out and gathered up a bunch of lenses to fill that perspective, then I tried out a 5D, told myself I would sell everything I have and start fresh with a 5D.

A 20D with a 17-35mm L Lense, and a 28-105mm lense gives me the same perspective as a 5D with my single 24-105mm L lense.

At 24mm, I am significantly wider then I was on the 20D at 17mm (with 1.6x mangification effect) I am only at 27.2mm

Not to mention the fact that any Image Stabilizing Lenses that I had, were almost useless as image stabilizers have alot of issues with the 1.6x magnification.


Thats my major gripe with the whole magnification factor thing.

I have been able to cut down from 4-5 lenses, to 1 current lense, and the plan to buy a 100-400 for car events.

For sure, I totally know what your tlaking about. BUT not everyone has thousands of dollars to spend on a full frame camera. And even alot of PROs dont use a use FF.

But if you have the cash, I woulda bought the best aswell. And the 5D is a serious peice of gear. It makes my D80 feel like a toy. And L glass, well I think most nikon guys do have white lense envy too.

I don't blame you on buying a Nikon at that level Bill. I personally loved my 300D, but I can't stand the XT. It feels like such a piece of crap. 20D for me!

Originally Posted by Bill

For sure, I totally know what your tlaking about. BUT not everyone has thousands of dollars to spend on a full frame camera. And even alot of PROs dont use a use FF.

But if you have the cash, I woulda bought the best aswell. And the 5D is a serious peice of gear. It makes my D80 feel like a toy. And L glass, well I think most nikon guys do have white lense envy too.

You can't really consider a photographer a professional if he is not shooting with a pro camera. Most guys I know that are shooting professionally, are shooting with 1DS's and they have 5D's as backups. Alot of guys have 5D's and use 20D/30D's as backups.

Originally Posted by khunt0012

I don't blame you on buying a Nikon at that level Bill. I personally loved my 300D, but I can't stand the XT. It feels like such a piece of crap. 20D for me!

I agree. I thought about getting a XTi because of the sensor cleaning feature to kind of hold me off on buying the 5D, but I couldnt even keep it together in my hands.. way to small and non camera like for my liking.

Maybe time to release this thread from being a sticky?

Pardon my lack of knowledge...

I've been looking at a new camera for some time now.

I'm not a photographer by any means, i just enjoy taking pictures. I want someting better then a point and shoot, but don't think I need a DSLR.

Any cameras I should look at?

I've been looking at FujiFilms' s8100fd/s8000fd/s1000fd.

They are not DSLR nor are they 'PnS'

Any comments are greatly appreciated!