SLR Recommendation please....
Discussion
Hi guys.
I'm looking to buy a digital SLR with various lenses as will concentrate on action photography on disabled sports both indoors and outdoors. Like basketball, football, tennis and so on.
I'm looking at Canon EOS-300D with 18-55mm lenses also perhaps 35-350mm (or 70-200mm) zoom lenses. Got a budget of around £2k.
Any recommendations with models and lenses will be really helpful.
M
I'm looking to buy a digital SLR with various lenses as will concentrate on action photography on disabled sports both indoors and outdoors. Like basketball, football, tennis and so on.
I'm looking at Canon EOS-300D with 18-55mm lenses also perhaps 35-350mm (or 70-200mm) zoom lenses. Got a budget of around £2k.
Any recommendations with models and lenses will be really helpful.
M
MarkGW said:
Hi guys.
I'm looking to buy a digital SLR with various lenses as will concentrate on action photography on disabled sports both indoors and outdoors. Like basketball, football, tennis and so on.
I'm looking at Canon EOS-300D with 18-55mm lenses also perhaps 35-350mm (or 70-200mm) zoom lenses. Got a budget of around £2k.
Any recommendations with models and lenses will be really helpful.
M
Have you considered the 100-400? The 35-350 is about to be replaced with a 28-300 too, which should be much better.
Indoor sports might be a bit tricky, due to low light. Unfortunately, overcoming this gets very expensive. The 300D and those lenses will be great outdoors though.
I am a Nikon person, but if I were to start again I think Canon is the way. If you can stretch to it get the 10D, but the 300D is good too. If you are doing indoor sports do not touch the 35-350mm, 100-400mm or 28-300mm, they are all too slow. I know this as I have a 28-300mm and a Nikkor 80-400mm. I also have a 80-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor, and have used the 70-200mm too. For the indoors stuff you will regret not having a lens as fast as f/2.8, and - especially on Nikons - the focus is a bit slow on the longer focal length range lenses. One more thing, the 35-350 is a push-pull zoom, which most people do not like nearly as much as the twist type, so be careful there too.
I've got a 300D and can only say good things about it. It is slightly less featured than the 10D, but for what you pay it is stunning value. I also have a 75-300mm lens and a 50mm f1.8 for portrait work. Combined with the kit lens, i'm dead chuffed with the whole lot - and it didn't cost more than £1,000 in total!
Remember when choosing lenses that the 300D has a CCD multiplication factor of 1.6x - making a 100-400mm actually 160-720mm. Worth knowing in case you actually want 400mm max, as you could get a cheaper lens instead...
Remember when choosing lenses that the 300D has a CCD multiplication factor of 1.6x - making a 100-400mm actually 160-720mm. Worth knowing in case you actually want 400mm max, as you could get a cheaper lens instead...
Canon digital gear is hard to beat, and I'd heartily recommend it (I have a 10D and an Ixus S400).
The 10D has quite a bit more functionality in the "creative zone" (i.e. manual settings) than the 300D and is *significantly* better built (pick the two up and you'll realise this straight away). But it is a good bit more pricey.
Seriously consider a weekend away in New York (or other US city). With the exchange rate as it is, and if you're buying all the gear (body, lens, CF cards etc) you could well pay for your flights, accomodation etc and still save money over a UK purchased unit.
As an example, the 10D could be had for 750 quid! A 10D body, 75-300 Canon IS USM lens and 1Gb top of the range CF card could be had for less than 1200 quid, or a 300D in its place, with the 18-55 AND say the same 75-300 as above for less than a grand (have a browse around www.adorama.com for prices etc - I've been buying gear from them for a few years now).
Nikon have only really released details of the D70. I don't believe you can buy it yet (or if you can, it's literaly only just out). I honestly think they were jumped by Canon with the 300D and needed to do something quick to stem the tide of people flowing Canon's way. As a result, they release lots of images and specs with no cameras out. Unless you have Nikon gear already, I'd go Canon's way.
The 10D has quite a bit more functionality in the "creative zone" (i.e. manual settings) than the 300D and is *significantly* better built (pick the two up and you'll realise this straight away). But it is a good bit more pricey.
Seriously consider a weekend away in New York (or other US city). With the exchange rate as it is, and if you're buying all the gear (body, lens, CF cards etc) you could well pay for your flights, accomodation etc and still save money over a UK purchased unit.
As an example, the 10D could be had for 750 quid! A 10D body, 75-300 Canon IS USM lens and 1Gb top of the range CF card could be had for less than 1200 quid, or a 300D in its place, with the 18-55 AND say the same 75-300 as above for less than a grand (have a browse around www.adorama.com for prices etc - I've been buying gear from them for a few years now).
Nikon have only really released details of the D70. I don't believe you can buy it yet (or if you can, it's literaly only just out). I honestly think they were jumped by Canon with the 300D and needed to do something quick to stem the tide of people flowing Canon's way. As a result, they release lots of images and specs with no cameras out. Unless you have Nikon gear already, I'd go Canon's way.
I've only ever purchased the big gear directly - i.e. jumped on a plane. Fortunately I've been going there anyway (business or holiday).
Drop the guys at Adorama a mail, or give them a call.
You could also try B and H Photo. I ordered a memory card from them and it took 4 days or so to arrive.
If you get them to ship the lot, ask them if they'll ship it FedEx. FedEx seem to leave it to you to sort out taxes etc, whereas UPS seem to spank you for it themselves (at the UK depot) before they'll deliver the goods...sorting it yourself obviously gives you options on how you pay these amounts
Not sure on shipping costs as you'll appreciate, but I'd be surprised if they were much over 100USD.
Of course, the last flight tonight leaves about 2330 I think
Drop the guys at Adorama a mail, or give them a call.
You could also try B and H Photo. I ordered a memory card from them and it took 4 days or so to arrive.
If you get them to ship the lot, ask them if they'll ship it FedEx. FedEx seem to leave it to you to sort out taxes etc, whereas UPS seem to spank you for it themselves (at the UK depot) before they'll deliver the goods...sorting it yourself obviously gives you options on how you pay these amounts
Not sure on shipping costs as you'll appreciate, but I'd be surprised if they were much over 100USD.
Of course, the last flight tonight leaves about 2330 I think
I used www.warehouseexpress.com
They offer buy now pay later and the prices are great.
The chap I spoke to on the phone was very helpful and customer service was spot on !
They have a professional photographer who posts reviews of kit on the website as well.
They offer buy now pay later and the prices are great.
The chap I spoke to on the phone was very helpful and customer service was spot on !
They have a professional photographer who posts reviews of kit on the website as well.
Try
[url]www.cameras-at-lowest-prices.co.uk[/url]
Got my 10D from them in March 2003, superb company, service, everything!
>> Edited by frankowvette on Monday 8th March 23:08
[url]www.cameras-at-lowest-prices.co.uk[/url]
Got my 10D from them in March 2003, superb company, service, everything!
>> Edited by frankowvette on Monday 8th March 23:08
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