woooo hoooo !!!!!!!!

unpopular · Jan 29, 2012

well in that case, buy a mavica and a stack of floppy disks and get yourself a used 5d!

sorry if it has already been discussed, what is your total budget?

One2 · Jan 29, 2012

Congrats. Be sure to post what you end up getting.

naptime · Jan 29, 2012

unpopular said:
well in that case, buy a mavica and a stack of floppy disks and get yourself a used 5d!

sorry if it has already been discussed, what is your total budget?

nooooooo i had a mavica !!!

budget.. i am trying to stay around 600-700. but can possibly stretch a little more.

unpopular · Jan 29, 2012

omg. so did i.

I used to go out to take pictures with a stack of floppies in TIF mode. One image per floppy disk. It was like using the world's crappiest sheet film camera!

Josh66 · Jan 29, 2012

Is that budget for one camera, or both?

naptime · Jan 29, 2012

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Is that budget for one camera, or both?

both.

i'd be golden if that was each !!!

and that is of course for JUST bodies.

no cases, no hot shoes, no lenses.

preferably with battery and charger.. but if its just bodies, i'm finding batteries and chargers to be relatively cheap .

though i'm not sure how good knock off's are.

Josh66 · Jan 29, 2012

naptime said:
though i'm not sure how good knock off's are.

I have been using them for a while with no issues. It seems that a lot of other people here have been as well without issue.

LightSpeed · Jan 29, 2012

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naptime said:

though i'm not sure how good knock off's are.

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I have been using them for a while with no issues. It seems that a lot of other people here have been as well without issue.

Yongnuo

naptime · Jan 29, 2012

good, cuz im seeing batteries for between 5 and 10 bucks each and i'm seeing chargers for around 10 bucks as well.

blackrose89 · Jan 29, 2012

naptime said:
good, cuz im seeing batteries for between 5 and 10 bucks each and i'm seeing chargers for around 10 bucks as well.

So when do you officially get to get them? My money doesn't come until the 7th

Overread · Jan 30, 2012

naptime said:
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.

If I may I would suggest a slight alteration to your plan:
eos film setups at Christmas.
digital bodies in February.
higher class lenses for one of us in the autumn and the other at Christmas.

Honestly the rebel series that you mentioned being within budget earlier, the t1i (500D in UK talk) is more than capable of some very fine photography. Sure its not cutting edge on features and there are better bodies out there; but when you get round to that slightly larger purchase consider some good glass. Good quality glass, even on a lower end body can deliver some great results:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4146/4978894089_8059ea1e39_z.jpg
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4032/4457589479_7c48d9fc98_z.jpg?zz=1

both taken on a 400D and I'm not even that good a photographer (yet). Glass, lighting and understanding (as well as composition) will make bigger gains both short and long term over the bodies.

Overread · Jan 30, 2012

Putting this in a new post because a light just switched on in my head

There might be some cause to continue with your plan of higher level bodies if you were intending on something like a 5D original (second hand/refurbished).

You both shoot film and you might well find that the 1.6 crop factor of the rebel series (and all other series cameras outside of the 5D series and select ones of the 1D - and one or two much older bodies) isn't to your liking now that you've already grown used to the fullframe (35mm film) sized way of shooting.
If you want to make changes in the film/sensor size then I always say that its one of the few cases where you do want to make the change in camera body sooner rather than later.

Josh66 · Jan 30, 2012

Yeah, that's worth mentioning. I mainly shoot film, but sometimes I'll shoot a little digital. Every time I do, it takes a while to get used to the crop sensor. I mean, I have to be like a mile away to use my lenses, lol.

naptime · Jan 30, 2012

i have tried reading about it..

but i still can't make sense of what a crop sensor is, or why? or why it makes it different from a full sensor?

i mean, i understand it's cropped... but does that mean that the image isn't going to show what we see in the viewfinder?

i haven't included lenses in my plan. but my hope is that we can get upgraded lenses sometime in the fall. if not, i would certainly be up for getting glass over a new body, if that's what would yield a better photo.

personally, for me.. i will probably be more than happy with a 450d or 500d

the kid though... eventually, i think she'll be using something much better than that.

she's the one headed off to college and a career. i'm just shooting for fun.

Josh66 · Jan 30, 2012

What you see in the viewfinder is pretty much what you're going to get - but the field of view is much smaller than you would be used to going from full frame (film) to crop sensor.

You put a 50mm lens on your film camera, then try to put it on the crop sensor digital body, and now it's too long. You have to take like 5 steps back to get the same framing. Shooting indoors, you can't always take 5 steps back...