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I am buying my first SLR camera.I have Hp735 digital camera now, but it is not enough for me.I wanna buy film camera, because digital is too expensive!
I want to picture mostly nature(animals), and I want to take it with me to the trips...
I know just canon-eos series, I was thinking of eos-300 or 3?What about other marks?

PLease help, martin

Hi Martin,

It comes down to your budget. What are you hoping to spend? If you want to get shots of animals you'll want a good telephoto lens. I think that you could do well with just about any system available. My advice is to got to the camera store and put each camera in your hands. See what feels right to you and get the best that you can afford.

As John said, brand is not that important.
What is FAR more important if the ergonomics of the camera, how does it feel in your hands.

Noone can answer that question, least of all a salesperson who has a vested interest in selling a certain brand (name starts with a C) over another because it gives him a higher profit margin.

Go to a store selling both Canon and Nikon and try the F80, Eos 30, F75 and Eos 300.
Those are all good cameras with comparable features (the F80 and Eos 30 being more expensive with more extensive feature sets and somewhat higher performance, less important than good glass).

Don't fall for a salespitch, none of them is inherently better than the others!
Also don't fall for the nice package deals with some standard zoom lens, those lenses are hardly worth their weight in styrofoam.
Instead get a really good 28-70 or 28-80 f/2.8 zoom (Sigma EX, Tokina ATX are almost as good and quite a lot cheaper than the equivalent Canon and Nikon offerings) and a good long tele (I'd advise the Sigma 50-500 for wildlife, it's blazing fast AF performance and excellent image quality make it a clear winner. Nikon 80-400 VR or Canon 100-400 IS are good as well and the image stabilisation can be of help but I'd go for the longer lens at 500mm and use a tripod).

Then get a good solid camera bag to pack it all in.
A LowePro Nova 5AW should hold your camera and lenses comfortably and can withstand almost any weather (nice when out on a trip and it starts to rain).

You may want a good flash too but that's not a primary concern. DO get one from either the camera maker or get a Metz, those are just about the only good flashes out there.

Let me once again press upon you to try the cameras yourself and take your time, and whatever you do don't listen to a salespitch as those are not intended to sell you what you need but rather what brings the most profit to the store.

ok thanks a lot you two for answers!
So next think I am going to do is that I am going to shop and see what they have!Then I will look for prises...
I will post here if I ll have any more problems!

thanks a lot, martin

Hi,
If price is an issue, you should point to pentax, as you can find a LOT of used lenses.
And, even in the newer model (even the digital one), every lens ever made will fit.
Something other brands do not.

You mention the two cameras that I own. The EOS 300 (it's called a Rebel 2000 in the US) is a great starter camera. You can do just about anything with it that you can do with some more expensive models. One specific area of limitation is in the frames per second that you can achieve. The EOS 300 will only get you 1 fps while the EOS 3 will get 5 fps if you use add a power drive to it.

I use my EOS 300 for a back-up camera and keep it loaded with Black and White film. The EOS 3 is a much more advanced camera. You can shoot multiple exposures on one frame, you can auto bracket....some of this can be done on the EOS 300, too.

Either camera would be great to start with but you will have more room to grow with the EOS 3, though.

Have fun!

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