550D or 600D - Help me decide

Thank you for your reply mate! Digital rev seem very reasonable, I want the nifty fifty to go with it though as the one I used before was a cracker! I'm guessing digital rev come badged as the rebel?
 
Our Canon 600d came badged as the Kiss x5(?). The manual was also in japanese, although quite a few people seem to have been lucky and had an english manual.
Either way i just downloaded the english version from t'internet.

What do you mean 'nifty nifty' ? If you'd rather it say Canon on it then buy from the UK and pay quite a bit more, but they ARE exactly the same product.
I got shafted by crazycameras.co.uk so was paranoid about digitalrev.......but glad i used them now. :)
 
Jono said:
What exactly is meant by "fast"... in lens terms?
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Banzai_Joe said:
Not sure if that is any different to the 18-55mm lens that comes as standard or the 55-200mm lens that JL sell at £299. We got em both in the price, that's a huge saving.
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The nifty fifty has an aperture of f/1.8, this means it can let in at least 3.8x as much light (effective, ignoring focal length differences) than the 18-55mm kit lens which has an aperture of only f/3.5 at it's widest, so the shutter speed can be 3.8x as fast for the same exposure. This makes it great for fast moving subjects.

buzzlightweight said:
what else are you goning to plug a monitor into? rollseyes
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The 10kg UPS you carry around in your camera bag of course. :D
 
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If we assume the aperture on the 18-55mm is f/5.6 at 50mm, with the 50mm 'nifty fifty' right down/wide at f/1.8, then the prime will let in at least 8 times the amount of light that the 18-55mm will.

I read this Tedious Explanation of Apertures when I first got my camera (actually, before) and it's a great explanation. I was sad enough to set up my own spreadsheet to do precise calculations. :o

50mm @ f/1.8 gives you an aperture area of 606mm square.
50mm @ f/5.6 gives you an aperture area of 63mm square.

Almost 10 times as fast. 9.67 to be precise. Hence the popularity.

Down at 50mm f/1.2 there is 1364mm square aperture.

I was also just reading about a 50mm lens that Stanley Kubrick used in Barry Lyndon, the NASA/Zeiss 50mm f/0.7. Originally developed by Nasa to view the dark side of the moon (!).

Even though it's just '1.1' difference, the aperture area is a collossal 4007mm square. Geektastic.
 
buzzlightweight said:
what else are you goning to plug a monitor into? rollseyes
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http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-limelite-v-lock-battery-mount/p1530748

V-Lock batteries, used to power almost any photographic or cinematic equipment.

You can also get mounts for Canon LP-E6 batteries and Nikon EN-EL15 batteries to power your monitors. Hardly 10kg either are they? :/

http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-limelite-canon-lp-e6-battery-mount/p1530742
http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-limelite-nikon-en-el15-battery-mount/p1530743

But lets fill teh thread with unimformed sarcasm!
 
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DampCat said:
You can also get mounts for Canon LP-E6 batteries and Nikon EN-EL15 batteries to power your monitors. Hardly 10kg either are they? :/
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It was a joke. That monitor costs as much as the cameras we are talking about here and is very large in comparison, there's also a lot more to go wrong than a tilt screen so your previous comment doesn't really make sense. A tilt screen adds no extra size or weight, doesn't require external power supplies and doesn't cost anything, yet you don't seem to see the appeal of them?
 
I merely stated that *I* dont value them and was surprised by the number of people on here, who are generally high level enthusiasts or professionals, who think they're worth the extra price tag. I dont think it's that controversial.

The rest of my posts were defending the fact that you dont need an external power source.
 
DampCat said:
I'm surprised at the amount of people in love with the tilting screen. It's just another thing to go wrong in my book!

On the other had i use an external monitor.
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Indeed, streaming the Live-view to a ipad or or even my 4.7" Nexus phone would be a winner, tility flippy screen on a camera will just get snapped off.

Let alone the fact that the LCD is almost never used except to check the histograms after firing off some test shots.
 
DampCat said:
I merely stated that *I* dont value them and was surprised by the number of people on here, who are generally high level enthusiasts or professionals, who think they're worth the extra price tag. I dont think it's that controversial.
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They don't have an extra price tag, they are present on entry level SLR's like the D5100 costing £300.
 
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