Hey Russ,
Sorry to hear about your robbery man. I had someone come in to my studio
and walk out with a Macbook Pro. While I was here. I was around the
corner on the computer and didn't hear a thing.
My advice is to go with the rebel until you have the cash for a 5D. I
was a Canon endorser in the Middle East but now shoot Nikon.... 6 of one
half a dozen of the other really except Canon service in Dubai was awful.
I shot a museum banner that hung 3 floors and was about 6' wide on an
old rebel and they've got a lot better since then.
Buy some prime glass on Ebay. Rather than cheap zooms. They'll work with
your 5D perfectly when you upgrade later.
Get a 50mm 1.8 - it's my most used lens. You can't beat it for bright
viewing and quick focus. After that the 100mm is my next suggestion
(Also fast) and in wides you'll need a 24mm and 35mm. You'll be amazed
how you won't miss the zooms and at how much your images improve.
Later when you can afford the real pro zooms you can buy some "L"
lenses... a very wide zoom is useful and so is an 80-200
As for flash, you won't find better than the Canon flash units. I worked
with 3 580's but you should get the best you can afford. You keep it
when you trade up bodies
Herschel
On 7/24/11 12:10 AM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 11:42 PM -0400 7/23/11, Russ wrote:
Hi Gang...........
Well it finally happened.
I got robbed.
Terrible. Makes one sick to the stomach, especially if someone comes
into the house.
That happened to me last winter - 2 30D bodies, a Metz and a Canon
flash, long zoom, short zoom, quickrelease adapters - out of the car
on a 10° night.
They had to walk 50 feet away from the street up my driveway to get to
my car...
So I went big. Bought a 7D on eBay for $1300 (had 8000 actuations), a
Really Right Stuff L bracket for the quickrelease head (no longer have
to drop the ball head into the side slot), a new Metz flash, long zoom
and short zoom used from B&H.
I don't like being restricted to a single camera body. Don't much
care for having to change lenses. But the new body takes video and
has this miraculous new feature of removing dust from the sensor
whenever one turns it off or on. That really works.
I have not had to spot an image since.
The files are huge, 52M tiffs. 800 ISO is pretty noise-free, the old
bodies were unusable after 200 ISO. The Metz doesn't require a
transmitter adapter because it's all built in to the Canon. Recently I
found I should have bought a Canon flash, however, because the Metz
won't dial down from the camera body.
So there's my experience, Russ.
