Digital BW, The Print

I don't know where to begin: while many (?) people
seem to frown on the Digital Rebel XT, plastic and all
that, they seem to want to take this person from a
$800 - $900 purchase to a $2,500 - $3,000
purchase(without the lens).  Obviously for these
people who say get a 5D, money is no object!  

That's nice, however, why not a 1D, or better yet a 
1 Ds?  Let's really spend this persons money.  Lets
not stop there, lets go medium format (great for
landscapes) and grab the Hassleblad digital.. I think
the last "quote" to me was in the arena of $27,000!
Probably not much plastic there!   

Oh yeah, I own the original (not even XT) plastic
Digital Rebel, with a 12MM - 24MM Tokina, a 24MM -
70MM 2.8L Canon, 28MM - 135MM IS Canon, 200MM 2.8L
Canon, and a whole slew of other lenses.  I love it!
You see, in the end no one will ever convince me that
"the lens is not the thing".  Oh, I also own a 20D,
but since that's been superseded by the 30D I guess it
really doesn't matter(besides both have a factor of
1.6x).  

My BMW has some plastic, as does my wife's Benz but
they run better than most Japanese or American cars
and we all know these boys contain alot of plastic! 

Some people miss the point, I'm getting the feeling
that COST/PRICE is a factor here! Don't be
supercilious with your information, in all fairness
you should have entered some prices with your
information.

 



--- Andre <am1000@...> wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "joshscapes"
> <joshrandall@...> wrote:
> >
> 
> > and am not sure which to get.  I am inclined
> toward the canon rebel
> > xt due to the fact that I have several EF lenses
> already.  Is this a
> > good camera for digital b&w?  Color?  
> 
> I'm sure several people on this list already use the
> Rebel XT with
> Canon prime lens. Just remember that because of the
> reduced sensor
> size, it will multiply the focal lens by a factor of
> 1.6x. When you
> put a 28mm lens on a Rebel Xt body, it becomes a
> 44.8mm lens.
> 
> I'm sure several people on this list already use a
> Rebel XT with EF
> prime lens.
> 
> Canon is reported to have announced minor
> modifications to the Rebel
> XT for Photokina 2006. Just remember that the Rebel
> Xt body is made of
> plastic and that the price reflects its built
> quality.
> 
> > experiment with digital b&w.  I currently use a
> pentax 67 with slow 
> > b&w film for my serious landscape work and then I
> scan the negs. 
> 
> A 12mp dslr like the Canon 5D has the potential of
> making your Pentax
> 67 redundant.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andr\ufffd
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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