I have an Olympus digital (Stylus 410) (as well as a few Olympus film cameras). The macro mode allows much better closeups than I would have expected for a camera of this caliber (basically a Point & Shoot).[b said:Quote[/b] (endparenthesis @ June 10 2005,12:08)]Olympus has great macro modes.
tell me about it[b said:Quote[/b] (elgecko @ June 10 2005,1:08)]The problem is the lens I want cost big $$.
all that is on account of the lens. the 18-55mm ef-s lens that comes with the XT shouldn't even be called a lens. it's crap. The thing with digital SLRs are that you need a good lens in order to take advantage of them and canon L (the highest quality) lenses cost 2,000 dollars on average.[b said:Quote[/b] (larry @ June 11 2005,6:43)]And it seems digital slr's are 2 stops less sensitive than the compact digital cameras. I find myself having to shoot at ISO 800 and above to get usuable shutter speeds(indoors, no flash).
If you're used to super sharp photos from digital cameras, you'll find it a shock how soft the images produced by digital slr's are
The XT is an awesome digital SLR (as you can see from the pictures) but only as good as the lens. If you want a advanced camera you should get the canon 20D (about 1,000 for the body only). The 20D is geared towards more advanced camera users, and its heavier and bigger than the XT. If you're just a person who likes photography but doesn't want to fuss with setting every dial or need all the extra features, the XT is for you. You can't use your old FD mount lenses on it (you may be able to find an adapter though). Even so i can't stress enough the importance of a good lens. If you're buying an SLR which whos main feature that separates it from point and shoots is the fact that you can change the lenses albeit you purchase a crappy lens, why purchase the SLR? You'll get images that will be worse than point and shoots and pay a thousand or two more in the process, so i guess it's either go big or stay point and shoot. Also expect to pay more for the lenses than you did for the camera[b said:Quote[/b] (seedjar @ June 11 2005,8:56)]So I wasn't going to ask because this is kind of off topic, but now that SLRs have come up I might as well... What's a good digital SLR? I was looking at (drooling at) the new Rebel XT but I was counting on just going with the kit lens to keep myself in budget. What do you think about it (besides your shining opinion of the lens?) What are they like for backward compatibility? I have some fairly good lenses for my clunky old T70, but I really don't know much about photography except what I've learned from experimenting with just that T70... I've seen that the XT uses EF lenses - are these incompatible with the DF lenses for the T70?
Thanks,
~Joe