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More options Feb 13 2004, 2:18 am

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From: thcaa...@hotmail.com (camera critter)

Date: 12 Feb 2004 07:18:53 -0800

Local: Fri, Feb 13 2004 2:18 am

Subject: Re: WHY?!? Why am i thinking i need an SLR, and thinking of going 35mm?

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My advice is that you first evaluate your priorities, and get your
lifestyle into better shape.

You need to get out of debt, before you purchase unnecessary camera
gear.

> OK. This might sound stupid.

> I have a sony dsc F717, and I use it quite a bit. I like the camera. I have
> owned it since last April, and so I am going on a year with it.
> <snip>
> Added to that, I still am paying this sucker off. I got it before the price
> started to plummet, and I owe about 80% on it still.

> I don't really know if I would benefit very much from moving to the digital
> rebel right now. That isn't to say that I am not interested in DSLR, quite

> <snip>
> I don't want to give up on digital, just to carry both camera's when I go
> out, and use both of them for different things.

> <snip>
> WHAT ARE GOOD OPTIONS FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME?

Let's see now...
You write that during the past ten months you were able to pay only
20% of the US$708 (Sony Cybershot DSC-F717 camera) cost, and yet you
now want to buy a US$899 camera (Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel).

You already have experienced the dramatic depreciation that comes
hand-in-hand with digital photography. You might still owe more to
the bank (at 18%-20% compound interest?) than what your depreciated
F717 attracts on the used market.

The charge card bank might profit from your purchases, but digital
photography just might lead towards your financial ruination.

Of course, the others posting to this forum are nothing other than
enablers of your addictive behavior. <grin>

One of the first rules about being a gearhead addict is to be able to
afford what it costs to play in the photography sandbox.
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"Steven C $Doktersteve$" <real_dokterst...@hotmail.com> wrote in message <news:HsFOb.35145$n44.842@clgrps13>...

> OK. This might sound stupid.

> I have a sony dsc F717, and I use it quite a bit. I like the camera. I have
> owned it since last April, and so I am going on a year with it.

> When I bought it, I thought "good, now I wont have to buy anything else for
> some time", but now I am starting to feel as though it is really not doing
> the job for me I would like.
> I have thought of this rationally, there are a few features that I can
> simply love about the camera, such as its awesome macro capabilities, and
> nice zeiss lens (whether it is just the coating or not, its a nice lens).

> But there are a few things that I don't like, one of them being the lack of
> a changeable lens, a fixed 5x zoom, and a relatively tame "wide" angle zoom
> out.

> Added to that, I still am paying this sucker off. I got it before the price
> started to plummet, and I owe about 80% on it still.

> I don't really know if I would benefit very much from moving to the digital
> rebel right now. That isn't to say that I am not interested in DSLR, quite
> the opposite, I very much AM interested in it, but for now I feel for some
> reason like I would do well to explore SLR in general, and that puzzles me.
> I mean, there are all the added costs of developing, scanning (I don't have
> a good scanner, I would get photo cd's made), and buying film.
> I don't want to give up on digital, just to carry both camera's when I go
> out, and use both of them for different things.

> I know that when I do go DSLR, I will go canon. It is a personal preference
> that I have formed.
> As such, I have been looking at getting myself a decent used canon which
> takes EF mount lenses (so I can use the lenses on whatever DSLR I get in the
> next few years).

> WHAT ARE GOOD OPTIONS FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME?
> I was looking at the EOS Kiss, until I found out it was just a variation on
> the rebel, which as I understand it is a crippled camera for consumers.
> What about the late 1980's type cameras? The EOS-850 for instance?

> I don't want to spend much more than $200 Canadian for a used camera, but as
> I understand it, a good camera from the late 1980s that takes current lens
> technology will do me as well as a brand new ELAN 7 will, yes?

> What do you think. Thanks for any suggestions.

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