We have the Canon 550D with the standard 18-55mm lens which I use 80% of the time, but I also got a Tamron 180-300mm macro lens which I love love love - I find my big lens is great for taking those non posed toddler pics from afar as you can zoom in from miles away un-noticed, and great for nature shots.
Personally I find the Canon very comfortable in my hands, but as I like to use the view finder rather than the LCD screen for taking pics I find I have to squash my nose up against the back of the camera a bit too much (maybe I have a big nose LOL)
Im a Canon lover aswell. I have a Canon 500D and its fantastic. Also have smaller canon IXUS camera too and its also fantastic. Have only ever bought canon cameras, always upgrade from them to more Canon cameras and couldnt recommend them enough.
Canon. Purely because my toddler has picked mine up and thrown it twice now and it still lives. Both my SILs and FIL (i think?) have had trouble with the lenes on their Nikons.
Rachel, you'll love the canon it's great I got the twin lens kit on the internet for around $1180 which included a memory card, cleaner, extra charger (I got the case separately on the internet that was really cheap from China, but it's the real canon case). They twin lens kits are priced from about $1400 to $1700 in the shops. The 18-55 lens is standard I think but the 55-200 is the one you can really zoom in and it's great for taking pics from very far away. I just came back from a holiday and took some stunning pictures of these boats going by (they were very far away but in my pictures they look like they are very close ) and the pictures I took from the helicopter were fantastic too.
I bought the Kiss (Asian model) brand new off eBay from a seller (a digital goods retailer) in Melbourne. I got the camera with the 18-55 IS lens plus a telephoto lens and wide angel lens for $855. I was stoked with that. The only difference with the Kiss is it only as two languages - English and Japanese. English is good for me
ETA: I'd like to buy the super zoom lens down the track
Rachel, I got my twin lens kit on ebay, brand new from an Oz supplier (so for the warranty the camera has to be sent to Sydney) but I suppose they send it off to China as that's where they source the cameras from. I was toying with the idea of buying directly from China for a couple of hundreds dollars less, but if anything goes wrong I'd have to send it to China directly. I ended up buying from a seller that had the most cameras sold, I figured they would be pretty reliable! lol. If you need any info PM me hun
This has been so helpful!
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that is an awesome price. It’s really pays to shop around doesn’t it.
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