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Looking to buy a camera Anonymous
I have a manual canon 20d with a nice macro lens and some other basic lenses. I've been into photography for about a year now. The Canon is old, it was a handme down. Well, its not an antique, but it certainly isn't digital and I'm looking to pick up a d-slr (digital slr) and im not really sure of where to begin. I'm hoping to find something with some weight to it. I've picked up some rather large DSLR cameras and they've been considerably lite in weight.

Any suggestions?

I'm not sure if i should be going for a beginner entry, because I know I'll rapidly wish to expand into more advanced features.

Suggestions anybody?
>> Anonymous
i suggest you read the next ten pages of /p/
>> Anonymous
I read the last 10 pages of /p/ its not helping. Its all flaming and nikon/canon arguments. Theres so much stupidity and bias that my wee little brain cant seem to cut through it.
>> Anonymous
>>75903

alright, then i'll be short. decide how much money you want to spend, lenses and flash included, and go buy a slr. they're all good, you won't be disappointed, and in a month you'll be in here arguing about how much better your canon is than nikon and how full frame is the wave of the future, with extensive mtf graphs to prove your point. seriously, half of /p/ started out with digital, and lots haven't had their SLR longer than a year.

tl;dr: go spend as much money as you're comfortable spending, and you can't go wrong.
>> Anonymous
I know a flash will run me about 120, (they do with manual anyways) and i'll set aside about 500 for a nice lens. So basically i've got about $1000 to spend on just the camera body. I'm leaning toward canon because ,correct me if im wrong, but you can use canon lenses from manuals on digitals without an autofocus (i never use autofocus anyways)
>> Anonymous
>>75906

depends. if your manual focus lens was made before canon switched to EOS (1985), it won't work on a modern SLR.

but sounds like you've got most everything worked out. post some photos with your new camera when you get it.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>75906
>you can use canon lenses from manuals on digitals without an autofocus
You're wrong.

Well, okay, not totally. You can get an adapter that'll let you mount a Canon FD lens (i.e., old-school manual focus) on a Canon EOS body (i.e., basically all Canon autofocus cameras), but they're not really worth it.

You might be thinking of Nikon. Nikon's lens mount has remained more or less backwards compatible since the first Nikon F.

>>75908
There are no non-autofocus EOS lenses.