Digital BW, The Print

Joseph, 

You are right.  Price is important to me. I don't have thousands to 
spend on a camera that I am getting to just try digital out.  That 
being said I think the reason these suggestions occur often is 
because on this group we have a wide variety of people.  Some can 
afford the most expensive and some barely the least. People often 
assume others are like them and so they recommend accordingly.  I 
appreciate all recommendations.  I also appreciate your sensetivity 
to the financial restraints.  I have seen all over the web research 
that supports the idea that an image from a rebel xt is just as good 
as a 20d.  Do you agree with that?  If that is the case I would 
rather shell out 800 now, and upgrade when a significant difference 
does occur.  

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Chandler 
<over40_98@...> wrote:
>
> 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 but since that's been superseded by the 30D I guess it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,
> > André
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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