Reply With Quotefor lens info stouty, check out this thread:
wrote all that when there was questions being asked by some other people. hope it helps.
Sweet thanks for that im new to this so appreciate the help
for lens info stouty, check out this thread:
wrote all that when there was questions being asked by some other people. hope it helps.
harvey norman had 1000d twin is recently for 800 so dont pay more than that for a 1000d
* unless it has the IS lenses...
Thats a pretty awesome price.
After looking at the specs, the minimum I would consider (personally) would be a 450D with IS.
i can vouch for the 450d nick, i used one for about a year and a half and it never let me down. capable of really nice pictures too. unfortunately i couldnt take advantage of it properly due to only having the stock 18-55 lens. sold on ebay at a decent price to a guy in qld and was destined to become his 'backup body'.
Yeh can get get 1000d pretty cheap around the $800 mark but that is without IS lensewith IS lens around $1000 I think i will look at the 450d as it has video.
Harvey Norman has twin lens kit 450d 15-55 55-250 for around $1200 can get it alot cheaper online but that is out of hong kong and im a bit worried about warranty.
Im not sure if a 75-300 lens would be better then the 55-250 what can people suggest? It seems most of the twin lens kits with IS are 55-250. Im looking at using it for mainly motorsport shots.
Last edited by stouty; 14th April 2010 at 02:14 PM.
The standard 75-300 lenses aren't that great because they are usually only F/4 - F/5.6 etc means they are slower and crappy. OK for the one off telephoto, but not good for fast pace action.
Thats why everyone goes ape-shit over the 70-200 f/2.8, because it is one of the best midrange telephoto lenses on the market.
I reckon if I were starting out, I would buy a single (close range) lense 450D with IS and save up all my rubles for one of the shit hot EFS 70-200 f/2.8 suckers
Sounds like the go my uncle owns a retarvision so im going to speak to him soon about a price i might go with the twin kit if it is cheap enough.
Looked at the lens you are speaking of on ebay canon one $2200 Sigma one $1200 maybe christmas time.
Everyone i've known with Sigma Lenses sold them, and got the real deal eventually... Must be something in it.
I would spend the extra $1000 myself. But I would go into a decent photography store and haggle them down until they sold it for around the $1800 mark
Local canon dealer up here has the 450D Twin lens IS kit for $1100 ex GST and the 1000D Twin lens IS kit for $875 ex GST
(these are at the wholesale price, not RRP)
Yeh pretty much comes done to you get what u pay for hey.
Just spoke to my uncle $1050 for twin IS lens kit 450D think ill do it.
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