Which Canon Camera?

Hi. At the moment I own canon EOS 400D, but i am unhappy with sharpness of my pictures! So have desidet to go with better camera (it have to be canon so i can use all my lenses).
Could anyone recomend proper professional camera (till £1000) ?

400D is more than capable of producing sharp pictures. Perhaps its your lenses that need upgrading? Care to post some pictures so we can help evaluate?

What lenses do you have?

i'de second getting lenses instead, assuming you don't have 2.8 zooms and some good primes...

timnosenzo wrote in post #4984274
400D is more than capable of producing sharp pictures. Perhaps its your lenses that need upgrading? Care to post some pictures so we can help evaluate?

I would have to agree with the above. I have a 350d and it is capable of producing some sharp pictures.

get lens, not new camera.

Get good lenses and a tripod. Maybe take some classes to learn proper technique.

i agree with all of them.

my boyfriend has a 350d and it takes wonderful images with a prime or 2.8 behind it.

spend the thousand bucks on a couple great lenses. don't trade the camera till it craps out.

I've seen some great work produced with a 400D. Maybe it is your lens.

Technique, technique, technique. Even the crappiest lenses can produce sharp images.

Work on your technique, your understanding of exposure, settings, light, focus, depth of field, post-processing (this is key), and so on. It's free, and you will see the most dramatic improvement.

Don't buy new gear until you have pushed your current stuff to the limit and made the most out of your equipment. I'll bet good money that it's not the gear limiting you, but the photographer. Thankfully the latter is the cheapest to 'upgrade'.

Why not post some sample shots with EXIF so we can help out and try figure out what's going on in your shots?

perryge wrote in post #4984482
Technique, technique, technique. Even the crappiest lenses can produce sharp images.

That's also true. I've seen people with kit lenses take great picture.

Think of the camera body as your brain and the lens as your eye. Now, you might be the most intelligent person in the world but if you have bad eyesight you are never going to see sharp images.

Your camera is just fine, get some good quality lenses.

SS

Ever heard of GLASS?
Buy some REAL lenses and stop whining!
Cheers

You seem to have (atleast had) Canon 85 f/1.8 which should be decently sharp.

400D should be very good at ISO400 so Av mode using f/4 should be possible in most situations - and getting better results than if you are shooting at f/1.8 (which you would get shooting in P mode at ISO100). As well, at f/1.8 the depth of field is very narrow, which makes it much more challenging to shoot sharp pictures handheld or at moving objects.

Just speculation here, it would help a lot if you could show an example with EXIF info.

perryge wrote in post #4984482
Technique, technique, technique. Even the crappiest lenses can produce sharp images.

Work on your technique, your understanding of exposure, settings, light, focus, depth of field, post-processing (this is key), and so on. It's free, and you will see the most dramatic improvement.

Don't buy new gear until you have pushed your current stuff to the limit and made the most out of your equipment. I'll bet good money that it's not the gear limiting you, but the photographer. Thankfully the latter is the cheapest to 'upgrade'.

Why not post some sample shots with EXIF so we can help out and try figure out what's going on in your shots?

I couldn't agree more... Take the extra time to hone your technique. To paraphrase a line in a movie I've recently watched - If it's worth doing, take your time doing it.