a little advice

[alz123]

hi all
now i have found an EOS forum i may get some real advice(not shop advice)

at the moment i own
EOS 10
35-135 Usm
100-300 Usm
540ez
remote for the above and a barcode programmer

i want to go digital and am saving very hard to buy a EOS 10d
i knoe the lens's will fit
but what i would like to know is do i get rid of all of the above
or keep it all as im lead to believe its not worth much now

also would it be better to have one multi range lens or use the 2 i have

alan

[Belmondo]

The flash won't do much for you. Perhaps you can use it in manual mode, but it won't take advantage of the E-TTL metering. The lenses are okay. They'll work fine. Just remember that with the 10D, you will have the 1.6X crop/magnification factor to deal with, so they won't give you the same focal lengths as they did on your film body.

[ron chappel]

The 100-300 is still the best consumer model zoom that canon make,you would have to go to an L lens to better it.
The 35-135 was quite good in it's day and still isn't bad :) .It should outperform the 18-55 kit zoom for example (just a guess from testing *lots* of lenses,allthough not that particular model)

[CyberDyneSystems]

I'd keep it all for now...

It will mean you have lenses.. ANY lenses from the start.. lowers your "initial cost of ownership" by getting you shooting without having to buy another lens.

Keep the film body for a while.. who knows.. maybe you'll use it.


You'll still need to get some stuff,.

Get some CF cards.. I'd get at least two 512MB CF cards... or if you can swing it.. get two 1GB cards...

Whatever you do.. GET TWO,. and don't get smaller than 512MB :) (see how flexible I can be :) )

You'll have lenses to start... then you can come back here and we can tell you how to spend your retirement fund on some spiffy new white ones :wink:

10D is selling for about $1350.00 right now.. it has been going down in price.

Keep in mind there is also the 300D for about $800.00, and the soom to be released 20D for approx $1,500.00

Hope this helps.

[Panza]

$1,249.95 for the 10D at a very large New York firm. :wink:
Too low to show on their website.

[ron chappel]

I agree on the two flashcards.Two smaller are better than i bigger for alot of reasons.
With the price of cards now it would probably make sense to get 512's but i only have two 128's...and rarely use the 2nd one.It all depends how you work

[alz123]

thanks for all the replys

was going for 1gig but will now get two 512
ok so i will keep it all for now

just have to put soom more hours in at work and will then get one quicker

thanks everone for advice will report back when i have 10D and hopefully post some picture
alan

[mjordan]

You didn't say what kind of photography you do. If you shoot static controlled lighting shots, then you will probably shoot jpeg and 2 512meg CF cards will work fine. If you shoot under less than ideal lighting conditions or have a paticular need to really be able to get everything you can out of your digital images, then you will want to learn to shoot raw, which means you should get (or start saving up for) a couple of 1 gig CF cards. Or one 512 meg card and one 1 gig card. Once you are freed from getting film processed, you may find that you take a bunch more images and even shooting jpeg you might find 1 512 cad and one 1 gig card are a better choice.

For your lenses, again, it depends on how you shoot. Do you shoot in lots of light situations or do you like shooting indoors under less than ideal lighting? This will indicate if you should get different lenses than you have. I have the 100-300 USM lens too and I've never cared for it. It's too soft in my opinion for the type of shooting I do. That's why I've moved up to "L" lenses.

Also, you need to consider your computer and photo editing software. It doesn't do any good to be able to take outstanding shots if you don't have the computer or software to get them ready for display or printing.

The 10D is a great camera. It does have a learning curve though if you have not worked around digital work flow before. Some people are disapointed when they first move up to a DSLR and say the shots are way softer than their film cameras. It's normal for images to come out of a DSLR looking soft. That's where the post processing in good software, like Photoshop, comes into play to tweak them back to how they should look.

Mike

[ron chappel]

The main reason i can cope with such 'small' cards is that i do alot of normal editing and sharpness editing in the field

I zoom into near max magnification and scroll through the multiple attempts.It's SO easy to do.I could never consider buying a digital without it! :) [/u]

[alz123]

hi

thanks for all this help

i do various pictures indoor and out my photograghy knowlage
is not great but because the EOS is so good people around me who see my picture think im good (HeHe)
but no i have had my EOS 10 for about 7 years and taken lots of picture over that time holidays weddings air displays etc animals
as im just starting to learn photoshop cs am going to combined both at the same time

i was thinking of getting a 2.2gig MD ???
or 3 smaller size cards ???
as i already have lens will start with these as advice (no further cost)
i have not played about with anything more than auto as its a pain getting films done to find they are no good and going digital if it not right delete
and try a different way
would like to have just one all purpose len so any advive on that would be great

and thanks to all you guy for this imput

alan