Canon XTi/400D Owners Chat

[moos blues]

hey hi all...

helping friend check wads the cheapest deal in town for local warranty set.

Can anyone help with latest pricing? =)



Thanks!


P.s looking for 400D w Kit 18-55, or other prices also will be helpful! Thanks again

 

[Headshotzx]

Canon EOS 400D Kit: EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
- Courts - S$1,650 (new, EOS bag, CF card, EF Lens Work III, tripod, Canon spare batt, 40GB external hdd)
- Canon Singapore - S$1,600 nett (new, EF Lens Work III, 1GB CF)
18/11/06 - John 3:16 - S$1,480 nett (new, EF Lens Work III, 1GB Sandisk Ultra II CF)
18/11/06 - Cathay Photo - S$1,470 nett 22/6/07 - $1320 (new, EF Lens Work III, 1GB Sandisk Ultra II CF)
- approx S$1,400 (used)
10/06/07 - Alan Photo - S$1,260 nett (new, 1GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, EF Lens Work III, 20 DVD+R) or S$1,499 - UOB Card Promo (30L dry box, 2 x 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, 5GB Sony Compact Vault Hard Disk CF II, Canon camera bag)
23/06/07 - Parisilk - $1340 (new, 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, Camera Bag)
- 23/6/07 - TKfoto - $1320 (new, not sure before or after tax, 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, 20 DVD-R)
- 23/6/07 - Song Brothers - S$1250 nett (new, 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, 20 DVD-R)
- 5/9/07 - MS Color - $1195nett (new, 1pcs 2GB Sandisk Ultra II CF, EF Lens Work III, 20 DVD+R)

MS Color (AMK Hub / AMK Blk 711) is currently the cheapest. I suggest getting either a 2nd-hand 400D (BnS forum on Clubsnap) or wait for the 450D to arrive, pushing down the 400D price. Of course, your friend can just bite the bullet and get the 400D now, which isn't exactly a very smart thing to do unless he desperately needs the camera.

 

[moos blues]

hey thanks....well i guess the prices still apply? haha...


yea I don't know will speak to him about the 450 again tho.. guess he really wants/needs the camera... thanks again. =)

 

[falconite]

MS Color (AMK Hub / AMK Blk 711) is currently the cheapest. I suggest getting either a 2nd-hand 400D (BnS forum on Clubsnap) or wait for the 450D to arrive, pushing down the 400D price. Of course, your friend can just bite the bullet and get the 400D now, which isn't exactly a very smart thing to do unless he desperately needs the camera.

Why 450D? Not significant and have a "downgraded" feel to using a SD Flash Card.. haa.. just my take.

The price down pressue makes it a better time to get the 400D. But i do agree that buying 2nd hand is really attractive now for the 400D (supe value worth and many are selling near mint sets.. haaa).

 

[ijnek]

sorry.
i'm lookin at upgradin from pro-sumers to dslr.

lookin at canon 400d...
where is the best deal currently?
lookin at kit II which comes with 17-85 len

 

[benedetto13]

hey to all.im interested in taking macro and landscape photos.
what kind of lens shld i get and what shld i look for?
it seems hard to understand all those numbers..
recommend me afew and what's it best for? hopefully below 1k.

 

[xtremequantumx]

hey to all.im interested in taking macro and landscape photos.
what kind of lens shld i get and what shld i look for?
it seems hard to understand all those numbers..
recommend me afew and what's it best for? hopefully below 1k.

For Macro, I would say the following:
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM : RS$1,250 - CP $1,010 / MS $800 / TCW $950(Grey) / AP $1,029 / CP $790 / JO $820 (w/ gst) / OP $780 / CP-M $810 (21/8/07)

For Landscape,
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM : RS$1,480 - CP-M $1,150 (2/10/2007)/ MS $1,030/ AP $1,134 or $1,090 (Grey) / TK $1,050 / TCW $1,100 / JO $1,060 / OP $990 (grey) or $1,060

At least these are lens I would get for the above purpose.
You can rent these lens and see if they suit your requirements.

 

[mountainsmith]

For Macro, I would say the following:
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM : RS$1,250 - CP $1,010 / MS $800 / TCW $950(Grey) / AP $1,029 / CP $790 / JO $820 (w/ gst) / OP $780 / CP-M $810 (21/8/07)

For Landscape,
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM : RS$1,480 - CP-M $1,150 (2/10/2007)/ MS $1,030/ AP $1,134 or $1,090 (Grey) / TK $1,050 / TCW $1,100 / JO $1,060 / OP $990 (grey) or $1,060

At least these are lens I would get for the above purpose.
You can rent these lens and see if they suit your requirements.

we can rent lenses? where at?
my kit lens has fungus :cry: , but it doesnt affect the photos that i take. anyway to remove the fungi?

 

[xtremequantumx]

we can rent lenses? where at?
my kit lens has fungus :cry: , but it doesnt affect the photos that i take. anyway to remove the fungi?

You can check out the Services wanted / offered section in Clubsnap.

 

[subwirl]

For Landscape,
EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM : RS$1,480 - CP-M $1,150 (2/10/2007)/ MS $1,030/ AP $1,134 or $1,090 (Grey) / TK $1,050 / TCW $1,100 / JO $1,060 / OP $990 (grey) or $1,060

At least these are lens I would get for the above purpose.
You can rent these lens and see if they suit your requirements.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Hheheehe

 

[fumon79]

hi all..

i am really a newbie.. to survive my taipei trip, i bought a tamron 28-250 lens to be mounted onto my 400D ..
it serve me well as a walk about lens.. in fact, the photos taken seems sharper and more vivid as compared to the stock lens, 18-55...

thus i have to pose this query :what:.. since 18-250 covers all range, why would people still normally get two lens, 28 -70mm and 70-200mm... :dunno:?

kindly enlighten me.. thanks all..

 

[Headshotzx]

The lens you bought probably has many drawbacks compared to other / better zooms. Wider aperture, higher CA / vignetting, less flare-resistant, less sharp, slower / noisy AF and IS.. the list goes on.

The 18-200 (or thereabouts) is a general walk-around lens and doesn't seem to be specialised in anyway. No doubt it's a great walk-around lens with a great range, but if someone were to get a 16-35mm f/2.8L, 24-70mm f/2.8L & 70-200mm f/2.8L, he would get a far sharper / better (term used loosely) picture than the 18-200mm lens.

You can compare this to the medical world. We have 'general practitioners' who work in neighborhood clinics that serve the general sick public. However, you'd go to specialists in more-well known hospitals for their skills and knowledge if you have a serious case of sickness.

So the "GP" docs can be said to be your "18-200 thereabouts lens", and the normal sick guy will be the amateur / non-pro.
The "Specialists" will then be your specialised lenses (Kinda like the L lenses), and the 'very sick guy' will be those professionals who need the great service that these lenses can offer.

Hope this helps =)

I just got my BG-E3 grip from Cathay @ S$180. I think it's really going to help me a lot, especially for balancing the weight of the lens.

 

[jawzsg]

Had my 400D kit I for almost 2 weeks and already discovered one serious problem. I'm looking at it in the dry box over this past days and only taken it out once to shoot. ..:cry:

 

[fumon79]

thanks for the quick reply bro, i guess i would have to hone on my skills before i invest in those lens...
btw, i see the need for a external flashgun, which would u suggest? would it be desirable for the subjected to have shadow or should it be ommited in portrait shots..

always see professionals sticking a piece of white card on their flash gun with the gun facing upwards. i understand that one of the use is to prevent gleaming faces. it would also reduce shadow cast on the background rite? when would the need be for pointing the flashgun on the subject?

thanks again for the info fed...
3 Cheers to the newbies...
:thumbsup:

 

[Headshotzx]

thanks for the quick reply bro, i guess i would have to hone on my skills before i invest in those lens...
btw, i see the need for a external flashgun, which would u suggest? would it be desirable for the subjected to have shadow or should it be ommited in portrait shots..

always see professionals sticking a piece of white card on their flash gun with the gun facing upwards. i understand that one of the use is to prevent gleaming faces. it would also reduce shadow cast on the background rite? when would the need be for pointing the flashgun on the subject?

thanks again for the info fed...
3 Cheers to the newbies...
:thumbsup:

I started with an L lens, and got infected by the L disease and probably the BBB virus.. lol.. I'm now planning / saving up for more lenses way ahead... Ah well..

For an external flashgun, I recommend the Canon Speedlite 430EX since it'll probably be good enough for you. Unless you need the range (58m vs 43m, 580EXII vs 430EX) of the 580EXII or it's extra features, and can handle the cost, get the 430EX. It's about 200 bucks cheaper. Of course, with the depreciated US dollar, you could always buy the 580EXII online at bhphoto.com (for eg) at the price of a local retail 430EX. Buying accessories online now will save you a lot of money.

The piece of white card is a flash bouncer, while a piece of white plastic covering the entire flash is a flash diffuser. For flash photography, the bigger the area that the light is coming from / bouncing off, the better. That is why photographers shoot flash into reflective interior umbrellas (remember your school class photo? the photographers probably brought along that). It's the same concept as the flash bouncer, to increase the area of light hitting the subject, allowing more subtle lighting.

There are times when you shoot a subject with the flash pointed forward. In the outdoors without any large surfaces or umbrellas to reflect off, people do that. When shooting in very low light, you probably would want to emphasize a particular person / object (photojournalism especially), that's when you point the flash forward. When people do this without flash accessories, the results of direct-flash are not particularly flattering, so they stuff on a flash diffuser to 'diffuse' the light in many directions. So the straight beams of flash (forming a rectangle of light) will get diffused and form a (semi?) circle of light, spreading out from the flash. This reduces the harshness of shadows and softens the 'deer in headlights' look that you get from most compact flash photos.

Hope this helps =)

 

[Mikeco]

hi, i planning to get a new lens for my 400D either 10-22mm or 17-40mm? any advice?

 

[Headshotzx]

hi, i planning to get a new lens for my 400D either 10-22mm or 17-40mm? any advice?

If you *know* you're not going to upgrade your camera body to full frame (ie 400D to 5D / 1D), get the 10-22. The 10-22 is an EF-S lens, meaning it can only be used on a double/ triple digit canon camera (40D / 400D etc).

I have the 17-40mm though, and it performs flawlessly for me. I also appreciate it's L quality, which has helped me quite a bit.

Hope this helps =)

 

[Clarity]

Hi to all

Just bought my 400D w Kit 18-55 on Saturday.

Wishing I have more time to try it out.. First DSLR.. everything also duno :embrass:

 

[falconite]

Had my 400D kit I for almost 2 weeks and already discovered one serious problem. I'm looking at it in the dry box over this past days and only taken it out once to shoot. ..:cry:

No reason bro...

TFCD your wife, make your kid a model, void deck has macro plentiful... sky is blue from window... nite you see moon... and home is where u can create water droplets and smoke.. haaa..
digital means that you can shoot and experiment whenever u want.. cheers bro.. enjoy it (shoot not just by sight)!

 

[matrixneo]

I have a prob....docs here pls help

Having playing ard with my 400d with sigma 18-200 OS, most of my shots seems underexposed even though I had compensated +1EV with flash. Always after a shot, the pic on the LCD looks just nice but view it on PC totally underexposed....wat could be the prob?

my settings are partial eval, +1EV, Tv + int. flash

thanks bros.