That's what I was thinking, skip out the compact and go for a used FF DSLR. You'll be doing yourself a favour.

and get some pro lenses like the 24-70 f2.8 and Nikon's equivalent to EF 135 f2L, EF 24mm f1.4L II and EF 35mm f1.4L. It'll probably take awhile to save money for all these but in my opinion it's totally worth it

edit:
and welcome back haven't seen you posting in here for a long time

This post was edited by Futurama on Aug 15 2010 08:20am

an hour or so from melbourne
i'm kinda thinking new cause i don't mind spending a lil more i just gotta do my research as to which brand/body i go with cause i don't wanna make a switch later


yeh haven't been posting much cause i've been lazy and not taking many photos (i'll blame my lil sister for loaning my computer connection cord for the year ... )
i'm thinking the 1st thing i wanna do is get a body with a 50mm lens and maybe something else then build a collection of lens from there



you sure? cause i was thinking of just buying the body with an adaptor n using my other lens id get for the DSLR and just puttin a lens on it and using it for places i'd rather not lug a big camera/bag to

Cool mate, I live in Melbourne.

For for a second hand 5d Mark II or a D700 if you can fit it in your budget. It'll be worth it if this is your career path.

Brand/body doesn't matter as long as it's Canon or Nikon and you are comfortable with it in your hands.

Lenses though... Canon make better primes, hands down. The top range zooms from both brands perform perfectly.

Go buy Pentax pro shit bro

is there a steep learning curve going to one of the pro bodies? i've shoot with full manual before but only really on my old olympus sp500uz or whatever it is (p&s)

Same as any other camera.

I heard Pentax was good, check it out.