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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	If you want an SLR digital camera and if you can afford no more than 1,000 dollars, then you are in the same situation I was one month ago. I decided to buy the Canon Digital Rebel, also known as Canon 300D. I've been using it for this time and I like it. But, I see some problems. I don't like the quality of "main dial", it's a mechanical rotational button, like those that we now have in every mouse, to scroll pages, and it's used for a lot of things in this camera. I don't like its quality because it's too hard to rotate and you need to rotate it for a lot of functions in the camera. And, for most of them, there are no alternatives. You must use this dial, or you won't do what you want to do. I'd like it to be softer, much softer. I also don't like the quality of the flash pictures. This camera is too much picky when taking flash pictures. The exposition of the picture is not predictable at all, unless you use a trick to make it dependent only on your central AF point, in which case it is still delicate to get the right exposition, but you can have "some" predictability of the result. I believe that the sensors are not as good as they should be. To make things more difficult for you to decide, now there are, or very soon there will be, more than the Canon for around $1,000. Nikon will very soon release, or maybe already have released, a new model, the D70, but it's a little more expensive, and surely will be a tough competitor to the Canon 300D. Sony recently released the DSC-F828 model, that seems great, full of interesting features, but it's not SLR and according to dpreview, it promised more than it accomplished. There is also the Olympus C8080, to be released, I guess, not SLR but I guess it will be a serious camera in the market. But, back to your question, with 1,000 dollars, wanting an SLR digital camera TODAY, your almost only option is the Canon 300D. The Nikon D70 should cost around 300 buck more. I believe that with this tough competition coming up, Canon should soon release a better camera than the 300D, for the same price. But this is just my speculation. If you can wait some more months, I'd wait. I couldn't wait because I'm coming back to my country soon, and I need some months to test the camera and make sure she's okay. Look here, at least: [url=http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/]http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/[/url] Loading...
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