I'm looking to buy a D-SLR soon. I'm just a student, and it will be my first so I don't need the works, but I also want it to be a camera that I can keep for a while and sort of "grow into". I'm not sure exactly what my budget is, but my question is this: If I buy a particular brand of camera, am I locked into buying that brand of lenses as well? Like say I buy a Nikon, can I only buy Nikon lenses?

If not, would any of the lenses I have for the Canon AE1 be compatible with any other D-SLR Canon camera?.

Hello,

I am thinking of getting my first SLR - Nikon D80
My budjet is up to 1100
I would want to get just a body for D80 and a lens seprately
I would not want to buy standard lens 18-55 but one that has better zoom that fits my budjet

Can you recommend any lenses that fit my budjet?

Thanks.

My dad's looking into a getting a rebel, digital, from someone but it doesn't come with the lens so he's hesitating buying it because he doesn't want to purchase a lens for it, which will be more than the camera because the camera's a really good deal...but I really want him to get it so I've been trying figure out if the lens from his old SLR, which isn't digital, would go on it...it's a 35-80mm lens.

I've been doing all my photography with so-called "prosumer grade" digital cameras and have recently begun to understand the limits of those types of cameras. So I'm starting to think about buying a SLR or DSLR body and some lenses. Friends have given me differing opinions on what brand I should go with. I wanted to see what you all have to say about it.

I'm hoping to get some insight into lens quality, availability and options as well as info about the bodies themselves.

Thanks!
Sorry. I wasn't clear on what I was looking for.

I'm hoping to get facts and opinions about brands - not necessarily particular bodies - because I understand that that various brands have different selections of lenses and other accessories with different features and pros/cons on various aspects of quality and so forth. And you're sort of bound to that brand once you buy a body - at least for lenses and some accessories.

I'd like to understand the diffs between the quality and selection of lenses, mostly. Things like whether one brand has a better auto-focus mechanism for example. Or another brand has less spherical distortion in these certain lines of wide angles - that sort of thing.

Thanks!

I have an Xti and I want a decent but not to expensive portrait lens for my camera. I have been told that a 50mm lens is actually 80mm with my camera. Is this true? How about telephoto lenses is a 200mm actually 230mm? Or does the difference increase or decrease with short-long focal length lenses. Is there a formula equation or something?I am so confused. I went from a film slr to digital and the transition has left me confused. If anyone can give me a good answer please do.

I have a nikon N60 SLR with a 300 mm zoom, and am considering a digital now that they have the 12x optics and image stabilization. will the 12x bring me as close as the 300mm?

Hi there!

I currently have a Canon EOS 50 body, with the following lenses: 24-85mm Ultrasonic, EF 70-200mm 1:4 L USM. I also have a Canon Speedlite 540 EZ flash.

The set has only been used once hence in almost perfect condition (some tiny scratches on the base of the body). I intend to keep the lenses for use with a new DSLR which I'm contemplating on buying.

Would really appreciate advice from you pros out there on the following!

1) where should I sell my SLR? Ebay? A secondhand camera shop? (I'm based in Central London)
I have rung a couple of places today and the quotes I've received so far are not great... London Camera Exchange said they can only offer £50 as trade-in value if I sell it along with the 24-85mm! Another branch has said that they can't really offer cash value and if I buy a DSLR from them they will give me a 8GB memory card.

2) Which Canon DSLR should I get? I would really want to use my current lenses but have heard about compatibility issues etc. Ideally would love to get one that can take HD videos too. Budget is a concern (£1000 - 1200 tops)...

Please kindly shed some light?

Thanks!

xx

I have a nikon D90 SLR with a 50 mm f/1.8 and an 18-200 vr lens and a nikon sb600 flash. I bought these so I can take "professional" looking pictures. I have learned about basics of photography such as aperture and how it effects depth of field, shutter speed and freezing motion, bounce flash etc.

But despite all these my pictures are indistinguishable from a point and shoot camera. Why is this? Is it because all professional pictures are edited using photoshop?? I don't think that is the case, not everyone would photoshop every single uploaded picture on flickr. I mean I go on flickr and look at pictures taken with the same lenses and better or worse cameras, and they look AMAZING, just the color and detail and sharpness is incredible. I'm not a total amateur, I know how to use the camera very well and I have read the manual inside and out but still no luck with professional pictures. Just look at the sample pictures on nikonusa's website with the d90, and other places, those are the kind of pictures I want and that's why I spent so much freakin money. Not just to get the same results at my canon SD750 point and shoot.

Any advice? or do I pretty much need to be a photoshop wiz? ( i have photoshop CS2) If that's the case then I could have done that with my 300 dollar point and shoot instead of spending 2k on my slr and lenses.

Hi,
I was wondering if this lens is compatible with the Nikon D3000 SLR? Thanks!!

I have a Nikon D50 digital camera and just bought on line a digital accessory kit which includes a 52mm UV filter. This is useless for me, and I thought the filter was going to be a universal size, but it does not fit on the end of the lens. The lens is a 28-80mm, which is the one most commonly bundled with the D50 SLR, so i feel a bit foolish at having bought this.
I have read the answers posted so far and am still a bit confused--I am very new to this. The symbol on the lens for filter size has a 58 after it. The lens is a Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm 1:3.3-5.6 G, I had trouble finding this on the B&H site and felt a bit overhwelmed by the Nikonians boards.

I have a Sigma auto-focus camera lens that had been used on a Minolta Maxxum 5000 SLR camera. The camera is now gone, but the lens remains. It is a 70mm - 210mm zoom lens with an F4 - F5.6 aperture. I don't want to go back to film, but that lens worked great. Are there any digital camera that it will fit?

Will an old analog slr nikon lens work with my nikon d300?

is the Nikon D200 an slr? Can you change lenses on it?

I took three rolls and only about a third of each came out at all. The rest are completely blank.

This is my first time using an SLR. Be nice.

I have a canon rebel slr and my grandfather has many lenses from his older canon (35mm). any help would be nice.

I have a Canon Eos 300 35mm SLR with 2 zoom lenses. Both are EF lenses. Are the lenses compatible with the Digital 300D and 350D?

Thanks for any help.

I have good lenses frm Nikon F3 SLR w/c i want to make use for a NIkon DSLR

Minolta x-700 SLR Camera ,In Excellent condition. Comes with Minolta auto 220X Flash attachment with minolta case, Original owners instruction manual, 3 different lens:
1. Hoya HMC 55 mm skylight (1B)
2. Minolta MD 50 mm 1:1.7 (49mm)
3. Rokinon UV 52 mm
Complete with lens covers., Lens Cleaning Tissues, Walt Disney Mickey Mouse attachable strap, A spare Duracell MS76 1.5 volt photo/electronic silver battery(Sealed new in pkg,Not sure if it still works, never opened)
A cannon attachment for self photo shoots with a Tokina case.
And a blue Kiwi camera bag to put everything in (this shows signs of use and needs a cleaning) This was all purchased by and only had 1 owner

all of this is .00

I am looking for a lens for my Olympus E300 that has the equivalent focal length of my regular SLR's 35-80mm lens.

I have a DSLR camera (Olympus E-system model e410).
I want to mount on it a lens from an old SLR 35mm camera of mine (I have the proper 'OM to E- system' adapter).
The lens is a Zuiko/Olympus, 28mm f2.8. I am aware that, because of the four-thirds system, the lens in question becomes a 56mm and that focusing can only be done manually.
I would like to know what else I should be aware of in terms of f-stops, etc.
Thanks in advance, Matteo

Okay, I know basically nothing about SLRs and I really, really have wanted one for a long time now. Can someone please tell me about the Nikon D80? I also want a fisheye lens, but I don't know much about that either. Do I have to get a certain kind for the Nikon D80?

Also, around how much would the SLR and the fisheye lens cost together?

I am looking to buy a Nikon dslr camera and I am just wondering if I can use the leses I have for my manual slr. and if so, which models? I'm asking because I have several lenses already and if I can use the ones I have, I won't have to spend as much money. If none are compatible, I think I'm going to buy the D40 or D40x. I am a teenage amateur photographer, so at this point I don't need the most expensive professional dslr. Basically, I'm looking to get the most for my money. The D40/D40x is a good size for me and living in NYC, the smaller the better. Plus, it's cheaper. But if I can use my lenses with another model (D50, D70, D80), plus the fact that they have more/better features, I'll go with that.
Any sugestions are greatly appreciated.
So basically, just so I understand correctly, if I get a model other than the D40/D40x, my leses will auto-focus. Does that mean that I won't necessarily have to buy any more lenses? If I get the D40/D40x, I can still mount the lenses, but I will have to focus manually, using the LCD screen. How much extra time and effort does that take? is it worth it?
I have maybe 4-5 lenses, not all by Nikon, but they mount and work great with my manual.
Is it better to get the D40/D40x and just get 2-3 AF lenses rather than try to use my old lenses? I'm still holding on to my manual camera. I would still be using it if I had access to a dark room. As I said before, I'm not a professional, so I think the D40/D40x would fit my needs. That said, is it better to spend the extra time to find a lightly used D50 or D70? Will I actually save money by not having to buy new lenses? I'm making myself go crazy.

can I use the lenses from my canon rebel slr on a digital canon rebel slr. I want to upgrade to a digital but I have 3 lenses I don't want to go to waste

I'm the Director of Photography on a feature film that we're going to start filming in April or May 2010. This is a small budget film because that's all we can afford, so I'm trying not to use a huge budget on camera. The Director and I have decided to film digital at 30P in a 35mm film mode, because it's not a major theatrical release (Sundance Film Festival and maybe a local theater). So, I was thinking that a good way to save money would be to use a manual SLR lens (Nikon, Sony, or Carl Zeiss), because they are 35mm photography lenses, and then Cokin filters on the front of the lens. What do you think? Do you think it will work well?

If not, could you give me a link or something to a good video lens website? Thanks!

And by the way, we're currently looking at a Sony HVR V7U or the new Red Scarlet for the camera. They are both about ,000 cameras.