lol thats great. Sometimes its more fun stay sober than get drunk and make an idiot of yourself lol especially if you have a camera you can just take pics of friends while they are making fool of themselves lol Well I guess I kinda got tired of getting drunk and all that course ive done that a few times in the past so after awhile I decided to stay sober at parties lol but let me tell you a secret I am the kind of people who could be easily convinced by friends to start drinking and when that happens it usually ends up with me getting drunk and throw up in the toilet. anyway I think you should get a dslr IF you want to get serious with photography and get a cheap point and shoot as a backup camera. The EOS 400D/XTI is an excellent camera and its quite cheap too so you can probably afford it plus a cheap point and shoot

I'm not worried about it being too cheap. I mean i don't want a 2000 dollar camera either. I just want one thats under a grand and will take nice higher def photos.

eos 400D with a decent lens cost well under 800 dollars and it performs a lot better than any point and shoot I have heard or seen especially when it comes to high ISO performance you can probably use up to ISO 800 or 1000 without getting too much noise. I believe good high ISO performance is very important if you want to take pics at parties or concerts course you dont want to bring a tripod with you and you may want to use a fast shutterspeed, therefore high ISO, if you dont want your friends look like a bunch of motion blur in your pics



ok! good luck

This post was edited by Futurama on Nov 29 2008 12:44pm

Ok i guess its down to the EoS 400d or the DMC-LX3. I am going to look into them over the weekend and probably decide by monday because i want to make sure its here and i know how to use it by Christmas.

in my opinion get a 400D and a nice lens

or you could get a 1000D and a nice lens (1000D is a baby 400D, which is a little more user friendly (has live view, so good for compact users) but a few nice features downgraded from 400D)

haha dont confuse this guy even more than he is now. I hope he wont be like you who would take like a million years to decide and actually buy a new camera

I am buying one tomorrow either way because I want for alot of things that coming up in December.

oh ok thats great!! so have you decided which you want to get?

as I said if you want to get serious with photography and want to take high quality photos you should get a DSLR and maybe a simple point and shoot as a backup
well lol I hope you will start posting lots of pics in the near future and dont forget to check out my assignment threads

This will mainly be for, like i said, friends and family. I doubt i will go outside and actually start taking pictures of random items.

This post was edited by Akaris on Nov 30 2008 03:56pm

dslr is allways a dslr, you cant compare it to some point and shoot. If you want quality and controls get a dslr, thats the only choise, if ur happy with taking pics with crappy flash all the time get some point and shoot. I dont see eny point of paying that much for a point and shoot what that DMC-LX3 costs, since if you dont care about the quality so much you can get enough quality from much cheaper cameras.