Why Elizabeth is awesome

[theducks]

Part 20 of ∞

Wherein is it is my birthday on wednesday, to be followed by a wedding and honeymoon within the next 7 days, and wherein I am difficult to buy stuff for, therefore be thanks raised to her of giving me a Digital SLR for said occasion!

god save the queen!

The embargo was broken tonight accidentally while having dinner with pennae, but this means I can do some checks on pricing and options before we actually go and buy it. The Canon 450D kit with twin IS lenses (Digital Rebel XSi in the US) looks pretty awesome. Comments? :D It does mean a much bigger bag to lug kit around, especially if I get the twin lenses.

In other news, I did check out a Nikon P6000 on the weekend. It's an $800 12MP camera with GPS and an Ethernet jack. It's a pretty interesting concept, I must say. I was disappointed by the image quality, but I especially like the GPS bit. Oh well.

Squee DSLR!

I have taken almost 10,000 photos in the last 7 years with digital cameras (9960 according to my photo library..), and I'm getting to the point that I really can understand why a digital SLR is the way to go for me. Playing with Cameron's 5D and my uncle's 400D has really driven home the desire for one.

Comments

[drabbo.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the price difference would be between the two lens and other package deals - but I think you'd find the 55-250mm too slow for the kind of photography you might want to be doing with it. That being said, it's a lot of fun to play with.

The image stabiliser would be good, though.

Give it a bit of a test for motion photography if you can.. but if it doesn't cost that much of a diff ($200-$300 diff) then get it anyway :)