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Re: Digital SLR recommendation?

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Melanie Lynch

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Melanie Lynch

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Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:12:15 -0400

I have been doing a lot of looking at both the Canon XTi and the new 
Nikon D40X - I have no lens carryover worries since I still have my 
Canon A1/lenses, but I do admit a definite loyalty to Canon.  I have 
been shooting with the office's Nikon 8700 and while I've gotten some 
very good things with it, I find it slow, not intuitive as far as 
manual settings and takes a very long time to wake up which meant a 
lot of lost shots. AND it's been in the shop three times in the past 
three years because it will, for whatever reason, decide it won't 
seat the memory card.

I checked out Consumers Report and they have the Nikon D40x picked as 
the best buy even though they rate both cameras equally.  Ritz camera 
is heavily pushing the Nikon by claiming that the lenses for the 
Nikon are less expensive than the Canon lenses.  I played with both 
of them and I found the Canon can process multiple shots much more 
quickly than the Nikon (the Canon handled about 4 shots/second as 
opposed to maybe 2 shots/second that the Nikon did) and that can mean 
the difference between a great shot and a missed shot.

Regardless of which you go with, you are going to be investing around 
$1000 between the camera, an additional long lens and and a 
high-speed memory card (don't pick one up at Office Depot). You can 
put together some not-too-shabby deals if you take the time too do 
the research on the internet.
-- 
Melanie Lynch
Annapolis, MD