woooo hoooo !!!!!!!!

[naptime]

This is just my opinion... I'd think you'd be better off sharing one GOOD digital camera than buying 2 not so hot digital cameras. Besides that-DON'T ABANDON YOUR FILM!!! It's so worth the education you get out of film!!!

Oh... and I have a 50D in need of a new home... with 2 chargers, battery grip, 3 batteries, couple of straps and any other odds and ends I find around here that just need to go. Might have an older zoom lens too...

i appreciate your opinion.

as mentioned, sharing is not an option. not for us.

we do things together, and that means we each have our own. i'm too ocd to share with her. not to mention, as i said, when she is gone at her moms, then one of us will be without. we need to have our own.

i completely understand, and agree with your theory. i just can't apply it to us.


we are not abandoning film.


at this point, until fall, 2 not so hot bodies will have to do. after her trip, then i can worry about upgrading to better bodies one at a time.

but her trip take priority.


right now my plan is going exactly as i have planned it.

eos film setups at Christmas.
digital bodies in February.
new(or current used) bodies for one of us in the fall, and the other at Christmas.

by Christmas, we'll both have current bodies.

but this month.. whatever two digital bodies we can afford. after her trip, then i can open up the wallet.


i just want to be perfectly clear that i appreciate, and trust your opinion. i just can't apply it in our situation.

 

[naptime]

Precisely why you should buy my Pentax, instead of her 50D.
lol

:thumbdown: if it doesn't say canon......

 

[jaicatalano]

Wow congrats. You and Asia will have a blast. I wish my taxes were done. Actually I wish I didn't have to pay taxes.

 

[unpopular]

Sharing is a dumb idea.

almost as dumb as not even considering any other brand other than Canon. There are much better entry level options, IMO.

 

[naptime]

Meh - Peeps gettin excited about the Fed giving you your own money back.

[/political_commentary]

you probably shouldn't comment on my financial situation unless you know my financial situation.

this is a camera forum. save it for an economic or political forum

 

[blackrose89]

Meh - Peeps gettin excited about the Fed giving you your own money back.[/political_commentary]

you probably shouldn't comment on my financial situation unless you know my financial situation.this is a camera forum. save it for an economic or political forum

Yes his finances are his business and no one else's. Yeah they do it together so they really do need two. Also won't she want a digital along with her film when she goes to college? Wouldn't be fun to decide to keeps the camera

 

[naptime]

Sharing is a dumb idea.

almost as dumb as not even considering any other brand other than Canon. There are much better entry level options, IMO.

i actually could care less about canon, nikon, pentax, polaroid, kodak, holga, or any other brand.

what's important to me, is that things we have bought, can be used on the new equipment.

which is why we went with EOS film bodies. so that our lenses and flashes would transfer over to digital bodies. so that we could simply buy bodies and not have to buy complete kits. and of course, when we buy new, quality lenses, they will work on all the bodies.


i don't succumb to the brand wars. though i joke about it with lightspeed.

i don't pretend to think canon is the best there is.

but it fits our budget, and enables us to slowly work our way up to current/new higher quality bodies and glass.


is this the BEST method to get there? probably not.
would i recommend this method to anyone else? probably not.
is this the smartest method? probably not.

but it is my method. and it allows me to get there at my pace.

right or wrong, this method has never failed me, in any of my past hobbies.

 

[unpopular]

Take a look at the a700. It's prob one of the better Sony bodies, and is pretty much the Maxxum 7D but with a 12mp sensor. It has a pentaprism, weather sealing, interchangeable focus screens.

I keep debating about getting one myself

Plus you won't feel like this guy

With the word "rebel" stamped on your camera.

 

[naptime]

Take a look at the a700. It's prob one of the better Sony bodies, and is pretty much the Maxxum 7D but with a 12mp sensor. It has a pentaprism, weather sealing, interchangeable focus screens.

I keep debating about getting one myself

Plus you won't feel like this guy

With the word "rebel" stamped on your camera.

except that it is not in our budget, considering that i would also have to buy a lens for it, since obviously it doesnt take canon lenses. and we'd have to buy a flash for it. so it's not going to take the canon flash.


and personally, i don't feel like that guy just because my camera has rebel stamped on it.

i'm an adult. i dont care what's stamped on my camera. as long as it works. it can have hello kitty embossed in the case for all i care.

and i don't wear sleeveless shirts, baseball caps, or smoke.

 

[unpopular]

Oh Naptime. Usually your sense of humor is better than this!

Don't let the politics get you down

I forgot about lenses. But sony does have a700+kit lens for under or around $500

 

[MTVision]

you probably shouldn't comment on my financial situation unless you know my financial situation.

this is a camera forum. save it for an economic or political forum

I absolutely love getting a tax refund. Who cares if they are giving us our money back?

 

[naptime]

Oh Naptime. Usually your sense of humor is better than this!

Don't let the politics get you down

I forgot about lenses. But sony does have a700+kit lens for under or around $500

i was trying to be funny. did it come across too dry?


i went and looked at the a700's after your post. but even used, with a lens puts us out of budget considering we need to get TWO bodies.

just like any other plan. you can't change step 4, without consequences.

we started with eos bodies, knowing that we would upgrade to entry/consumer level digital bodies, and then later upgrade to mid/pro level bodies. and everything being compatible.


i'm not letting the politics get me down. i put my plan together, and i'll follow it through, while sticking to my budget. all while KNOWING it's not the best way


and it's funny too. when i was racing or when i was competing, i have always been the guy saying "no, dont get that beginner car, you wont be happy with it, save for another month, and get the mid or pro level car" or "don't buy that 3000 watt amp. wait another three weeks, and get the 5000 watt amp. trust me."

but. i have always been the guy that goes against that advice. even the advice i would give to someone else.

could i wait.. perhaps even just another month, and get better bodies, or even complete kits..

no.

any other person could.

but not me..

my ocd won't allow it.

i made a plan, i have to follow it. there's no way around it. a plan can't be broken.

i wish i could explain just how deep and strong that feeling is. it truly is not an option to break a plan, or share a camera.

it's not about what smarter or better, it's about how the brain works.

and i KNOW that will cost me money and time in the end..

but it doesn't matter.

 

[Ron Evers]

Moral of the story: old technology doesn't cost squat these days!!!! Or perhaps, "Buy used, and let some other sucker take the depreciation hit."

A lot of simple old glass is up to today's bulky auto-focus IS stuff.

 

[unpopular]

naptime - Don't take this as me telling you what to do, but why not get your daughter a nicer DSLR, and you get something like a used XTi or even shoot film until you can afford something better. I think it'd be a nice gesture, plus she's the one with the future, you know

 

[naptime]

naptime - Don't take this as me telling you what to do, but why not get your daughter a nicer DSLR, and you get something like a used XTi or even shoot film until you can afford something better. I think it'd be a nice gesture, plus she's the one with the future, you know

i am looking at all options that put us both into a canon digital body.

i am not set on them both being the same.

one can be better than the other. that's fine with me.


and who says i care about HER future!?!?!?