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Old 03-17-2006, 23:50   #75
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Originally Posted by wanda
Before buying a camera like that ask yourself if you are willing to spend a few thousand dollars on 1 or possibly 2 lenses for it.
Even with that camera you will get crap images with a cheap lens on the front.

You will also need to buy decent cf cards 1gb+ if you plan on shooting raw, a couple of extra batteries, lots of HD space, image processing software etc.

It soon adds up and you can easily spend 2-3 times the amount of the camera body on extras.
Yea, i know, that's why the 20D is a little too much because i have already calculated the extras like two lenses, a 18-55mm, a 55-200mm (maybe a 70-300mm or 100-300mm instead), the "handgrib" for extra battery backup, and instead of a huge good quality telezoom lens i'm prolly going for the 2x extension also to get up to 400mm, not as good as a real 400mm lens ofcourse, but much cheaper.

I'm still not settled on if i'm going for the 55-200mm lens and the 2x extension, it will maybe be a 100-300mm lens and the 1.4x extension, the 1.4x have much better quality than the 2x according to reviews.
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