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Surefire_Spanky_Light
19th of March 2005 (Sat), 11:53
This is my first post here. I have just been lurking and reading until now. Here is my dilemma.

I had a 10d and sold it about a year ago along with my lenses. I have now decided to get back in to photography. I am not sure if I should step up to the 20d or just buy a 10d again with better/more lenses. I will have about 1600, and I have already picked up a couple 1 gig sandisk ultra II cards.



I was photographing waterfalls until I had back surgery, which stopped me from being able to photograph most of them. Hints the reason I sold my 10d. My point being is I would use longer exposures. I will still photo waterfalls, but I will just have to pass on the ones that require a lot of work to get to. I also want to start photographing low light landscapes, and B&W shots. However, the main thing I will photograph will be micro flower shots.



Now I really want the 20d because it is the latest and greatest, but I will have to wait to buy some of the lenses. I could get a used 10d and several lenses including the Micro lens. I was very happy with my 10d and had no complaints. It was plenty fast for what I shot and the picture size was plenty large for me.

The main things I things I want the 20d for is the lower noise levels at higher ISO and longer exposures, and I would like the faster write speed. I could always by better lenses later. However, the 10d will do everything I need to do, plus I can get the lenses now too. I have already ruled out the D-Rebels I want the metal body along with the more flexible controls of the 10/20d. If I already had the lenses I would be getting the 20d without question. So what would you do?

CyberDyneSystems
19th of March 2005 (Sat), 12:32
If all you have is $1,600.00 you pretty much have to get a 10D if you want to get any lenses ???

Surefire_Spanky_Light
19th of March 2005 (Sat), 12:35
I was actually going to get the kit with the 18-55mm until I could buy other lenses. We are doing some work to the house so my funds are a little tight right now.:(

Toogy
19th of March 2005 (Sat), 14:48
Get the 20D, I bought a 10D first and ended up getting the 20D two months later. The speed is SO much nicer with the 20D, not just the shooting speed, but the start up speed, the image review speed, writing to CF card speed etc.