Good Camera or Bad?

I have heard bad things about the rebels white balance...if you are going to canon spend the extra 100 and get the next version up. Or get a nikon d50 (same price as rebel) or D70S. I shoot nikon so i think they are better!! :)
 
For the money I think you will get you bang on the Nikon D50 with the extra $$ left to buy a flash (Nikon SB-600 around $170-180) and a good potrait lens (NIkon 50mm f1.8 for around $90-100).
 
well the kit lens is different between the D50 and D70.

The D50 kit comes with an 18-55
The D70 kit comes with an 18-70

both are very good lenses. just thought you should know.
 
I've kind of been trying to decide between an SLR and a prosumer camera.

I was mainly looking at the canon G6 and the Rebel.

But the D50 wouldn't be too much more than the G6. Then I would have more options, lenses, etc...

What's the main dif. between the D50 and D70?
 
I did look at dpreview and the only real differences that I could tell are that the D70 costs more and weighs more. :D

Faster shutter speed and uses compact flash I or II instead of SD.

The D50 has a bigger LCD though.
 
I think the D70 has white balance control but for me I'm not there yet and the D50 I can get close to 700 shots before I need to charge the battery and I used the money I saved to buy the flash (SB-600).
 
Would the 18-55 kit lense be a pretty good all around lense. For like family events. Birthday parties, picnics, just snapping pictures?

Also what would be a good macro lense for taking pics of the tank?
 
If you are not yet ready to go to DSLR and all the lenses and accessories that go along with it, why not consider something like the Fuji FinePix S9000? Great prosumer camera, 9MP, easy to handle, lens range equivalent of 28mm to 300mm (optical zoom of 10.7x, digital zoom of 2x), great macro shots, awesome "snap shots"...everything in one neat package. Now some will quote the fact that the price is indeed close to that of a D50/D70 package so why not spend the little extra for the SLR, but once you start adding lenses and stuff, and depending on how *serious* you want to get about photography, the Fuji S9000 might be your best bet.

Here's one link to its specs:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...347&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

And one to the kit that B&H has for $499 that includes a 1GB memory card:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...770&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation
 
I agree with VoidRaven in that you need to decide whether you're willing AND able ($$$) to expand a DSLR further than its 'out-of-the-box' configuration. I further agree on the Fuji S9000, as it's one of the finest 'point-and-shoot' cameras on the market. It also doesn't have the steep learning curve of its SLR counterparts.
That being said I shoot a Nikon D70 and am VERY happy with it, had it for a couple of years now.
Here's a shot with the 'kit' lens (18-70mm), lightly strobed with a camera mounted SB-800, this was hand held 70mm, f/5.6, 1/125sec

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Croped in photoshop to 25% of original image.

Either way you go, it's a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. :)
 
Ok, this thread is perfect info for me. I was looking at the fuji s5200 I beleive. Is there a big difference between the two? (522 and the 900) What is slr and dslr?
 
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