So, you’ve had your Canon Digital Rebel XT for a while, and you’re starting to get a little camera envy. Nikon, Canon and the competition keep releasing new models with more bells and whistles. Which of course leads you to thinking about how much better your photos could be with the latest technology. Can’t say I blame you, it happens to the best of us. Just for the heck of it, lets take a look at a couple of upgrade possibilities you may want to consider for your Rebel XT. One is the Canon EOS 5D, which is considerably more expensive, but includes a multitude of features the XT doesn’t have. Keeping it in the Canon family, lets also take a look at the Canon EOS 40D. The 40D is pretty much in the middle price wise between the XT and the 5D, but with some pros and cons worth considering.
For the sake of argument, lets assume your a typical Digital Rebel owner, and shoot a wide variety of subjects. Family portraits, sports, landscape, nature, family outings, and vacation pics.
One place to start thinking in your upgrade process, is to ask yourself why you want to upgrade. Is it speed? In which case, the Canon 40D has a faster frame-per-second rating. 6 FPS for the 40D, while the 5D shoots at 3 FPS. How about image quality? The 5D comes with a pretty sweet full frame sensor. Full frame sensor cameras will result in better image quality, wide angle shots, and photographs more suited for cropping during the editing process.
Will you be using your camera for portraits? If you find taking pictures of family members, friends, and so on, very amusing, you are a portrait photographer.
A non brand name camera bag is not such a bad idea as well. While you may be proud of the fact that you own one of the premier brand name cameras, it also makes it a potential target to thieves and other sticky fingered fiends.
Of course, its hard to have a camera upgrade discussion without the subject of price coming up. The Canon 5D is a little less than twice the price of the EOS 40D. You have to wonder if maybe it’s better to go for the cheaper 40D, and dump the rest of your budget into some nice glass (photo geek speak for lenses).
If you enjoy photographer in the night, you are a nighttime photographer. If you are, having good flash and many other features is important. Your camera will greatly differ when compare to cameras used by any of the other types of photographers mentioned so far.
Something that can really help me take better pictures. With that in mind, here’s a list of some nice cases I found. Should help you find what your looking for.
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