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I like that mine is becoming quite the independent little creature, but not so fond of how easy she finds it to manipulate her father into whatever she pretty much wants. I guess daddy didn't exactly dissuade the behavior when taking her to work, and she telling soldiers to drop and daddy suggesting it was in said soldier's best interest to comply to the child's demands.

That's just because you still are one.

True, you're just as annoying and not half as cute.

Edited, Mar 28th 2012 8:01pm by Aethien

Opinion always changes once you have one of your own.

Kids are so much fun. Sure they can be a pain in the *** at times, but they can also be awesome.

What the hell is a druid?

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If your dad shot with Nikon, get a Nikon body because you can use all his glass (If he still has it) Nikon never changed their fitting so it all still works, unlike Canon who've changed two or three times.

He had a Canon, luckily though, I've been able to use his flash, but it has unfortunately FINALLY died. The wiring inside has just gotten bad that it kept over heating.

I'll definitely have a look at the upgraded version. The T3i looks nice. I know that places like Amazon or Target is selling it for about $600-700 with the 18-55 mm lens. I'd definitely want to get a different one as well eventually once I do get a better camera.

I disagree, mostly because the large zoom (10x and a bit) comes at the cost of quality and I personally absolutely hate working with glass with a variable aperture.
I have barely touched my 18-105mm kitlens since I've gotten my 17-50mm f2.8, the 55mm I lost is nowhere near as valuable to me as the constant f2.8 and improved quality.
And I'm very seriously considering getting either the Nikkor 50mm f1.4 or a second hand Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4, to get that extra stop of light at 50mm and the beautiful shallow sharp depth (and much better looking blur)

It's a matter of quality vs flexibility and you can usually walk forward or backwards but you can't imitate quality.
Of course walking backwards and forwards isn't the same as zooming in, but it's close enough for me.
It's a different thing if you're mainly focusing on nature, specifically animals, because animals have the tendency to run/fly/hide if you get too close and you can't get quality and massive zoom without paying obscene amounts of cash ($5-8k per lens, anyone?). Or if you want to do architecture, but then you're going to end up having to go with either a tilt/shift lens or a technical camera at some point.

Anyway, I'm rambling a bit...


Edit:
Rebel T2i, just the body for $549, with 17-55 kitlens for $649, but the canon 50mm f1.8 is only $119 so I'd go with that one over the kitlens for $19 extra, the 50mm you'll keep using for years (or until you get a 50mm f1.4) and the kitlens will be rotting away as soon as you get a decent lens. And especially with the limited range of the kitlens, the quality is more than worth the loss of versatility imo. Better to save up for something like the Tamron 17-50mm F2.8 or a 24-105 F4 lens rather than spending $100 on a lens that's going to be eating dust pretty quickly.

Edit 2: There's only 2 things I don't like about that body, it only has 1 wheel which makes manual mode a little clumsy since it's harder to switch aperture and shutter speed quickly and second the viewfinder coverage is only 95%, my D90 has 96% iirc and the fact that I don't quite get the full picture when I'm looking through my viewfinder is something that has been bugging me more and more over time. Still, there won't be a single "cheap" DSLR that doesn't have these issues.

Edited, Mar 28th 2012 10:07pm by Aethien

I personally have an absolute hatred for variable aperture lenses. I find them incredibly frustrating and unreliable to work with because I tend to photograph at the widest aperture so often.
And just looking at the one site, a 70-200mm F4 is only slightly more expensive than an 18-200mm f3.5-5.6, a Tamron 28-105 f2.8 is a little cheaper. I'd go with either of those over the 18-200 in a heartbeat.


Edit: Looking at second hand lenses is a very good way to save a couple hundred bucks as well, at least when you're buying more high end lenses since their owners are likely to have taken good care of them and are either getting rid of them because of lack of use or switching brands or something. You still need to be careful with what you buy but it can save you a lot of cash/make purchasing good glass easier. And as I said, good glass lasts a lifetime.

Edited, Mar 28th 2012 10:21pm by Aethien

As far as I know, pretty much any Nikon SLR lens will work on any Nikon SLR body, whether or not autofocus works depends on whether the lens has autofocus and whether it has it's own engine or not as well as whether the camera will be able to power it.
One of the main problems will be aperture though, if you can't manually change aperture on the lens you're **** out of luck on an F body I think.


Also MP =/= quality. My phone has 5 MP but it's pretty much impossible to make a decent photo with it since the sensor is a piece of crap that shows horrible noise even at low ISO, it also has something like a 0.5 second shutter delay.
That said, if you have an Iphone you're in a much better position already. (Still no manual options though, which sucks ***)

Without looking up specs, probably the D100 since I think they're the same generation and the DX00 is the top end crop factor line.