Canon Rebel Xti

forget the Xti, 20, 30 or 40D.

 

I'm curious why you think the early x0D series cameras would be better suited for this application.

Sure the 40D is a better camera than the XTi, but it's considerably more expensive and I'm not sure someone would use the added advantages if they're new to dSLR.

 

JK

 

That is great advice IMO. Regardless of the glass, the body the subject or the person behind the camera, if you understand the basics, you have a much better chance of a lifetime memory for you or someone else.

Sure, you read all the time about someone who takes a point and shoot and gets a great shot, but 99.99% of the time it isnt chance that a great shot is made.

 

I agree with you and hope I can find a place/person who can teach me comfortably AHEM JG. With my schedule though, it's tough. I have a background in xray. The terminology and basics are very similar but it's light vs. radiation.
Aperture, exposure, time, shutter, penumbra, resolution, etc..... all make sense to me, I just need to apply it to photography.
Thank you for your suggestion.

 

Do you need a cough drop?

 

the D's are 10x easier to use and have slightly better photos.

one of our closest friends has a 20D and he showed me how fast and easily he can get to ALL of the functions. the XT has similar capabilities but using them on the fly is much harder.

 

And to think we used to only have to set shutter speeds and f-stops, and if the battery died, the camera still worked. And if you knew the "Sunny 16" rule, so much the better. There are days that I miss my trusty old FM2s with MD-12 motordrives, one with a 105/2.5 and the other with a 28/2.8. We didn't need no stinking "kit" lens that zoomed from one extreme to the other, you zoomed with your feet - ahhh the good old days.

 

huh?

i'm just stating i regret getting my photog wife the xt over the 20D. if i had to do it over i'd payed the extra $200 or so.

 

Didn't mean to confuse you there WilliamJ, I was just thinking back to the good old days of photography, before auto-everything cameras, when you had to think about what you were doing. There was no P,A,S,M to choose from. There was "Sunny 16" or 1/125 @ f8 or some equivalent exposure combination you set yourself, Kodachrome or Ektachrome, or Tri-X pushed to ASA 3200 and developed in Rodinal, in a "wet" lab agitating every 30 seconds for 30 minutes, just to sell a few prints to the theater department for a couple of bucks apiece. Of course there was Tri-X shot at 400 and developed normally in D-76 and printed in an honest to goodness dark room. You know, the good old days.