wakeboardgeek
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Shopping for a camera. What camera do you use and why? Thanks.
Erik
Erik
What camera do you use?
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BigB7
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Now I just use my phone but before, I had a Canon Rebel XTI with a Canon 100mm Macro and absolutely loved it.. Yea its a cheap camera but the lens made up for what the camera didn't. Plus I'm no professional photographer so I didn't need a $5000 camera body...
Canon 7D, here. Upgraded, to the Canon 7D, from a Canon Rebel Xt.
Sit back down! J/K
If you go with any of the Nikon or Canon DSLRs, you'll be just fine. They're both great manufacturers. Go to a camera shop and handle both of them. Go with the one that feels best, in your hands.
Mike&Terry
Wrasses, Angels, & Tangs, Oh My!
Nikon D300s here.
Braves Fan
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Its more than just great, haha
The 7d is AWESOME. I was reading a artical on it today, and some of the features on it, are from the 1d series, which is about 2-3 times the price of the 7d! its just simply awesome. Im hearing that there will be a 7d Mark II, but you know how that goes! haha!
STL
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I've got a 7D too - upgraded from a 40D which was an upgrade from a D60.. been playing with cameras for quite a while 
I use either a wide 17-40mm F4 lens, or a 100mm F2.8 macro lens - both are L series. I've also got a "nifty-50", but rarely use that.
But you really can't go wrong with a digital SLR and a macro lens. If budget is a concern, put more of your budget in the lens. Lenses rarely change, they last a very long time with decent care, and they depreciate slowly if at all (the 17-40 costs more now than when I bought it several years ago - this never happens with electronics!), where as there is a new body every year with more bells, more whistles, and the old bodies drop in value - just like everything else electronic.
Also, electronics aren't a substitute for optics. Upgrading to the 17-40mm was more of an upgrade in image quality of my photos than upgrading from the D60 to the 40D, and those bodies are several generations apart.
I use either a wide 17-40mm F4 lens, or a 100mm F2.8 macro lens - both are L series. I've also got a "nifty-50", but rarely use that.
But you really can't go wrong with a digital SLR and a macro lens. If budget is a concern, put more of your budget in the lens. Lenses rarely change, they last a very long time with decent care, and they depreciate slowly if at all (the 17-40 costs more now than when I bought it several years ago - this never happens with electronics!), where as there is a new body every year with more bells, more whistles, and the old bodies drop in value - just like everything else electronic.
Also, electronics aren't a substitute for optics. Upgrading to the 17-40mm was more of an upgrade in image quality of my photos than upgrading from the D60 to the 40D, and those bodies are several generations apart.
polysacman
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+1 on what STL said. Camera body means very little. It's all about the lens with a SLR. Canon 100mm macro f2.8 for me.
