pinguhk

well that what you get for being white mice
If you can wait, I would buy the 5Dmk2 after new year but not right now

seoulman

The 5D Mk II eats to much into my budget. I'll only be able to get one lens if I get the 5D Mk II, and I need a couple of lens. Moreover, the continuous shooting is a little slow (continuous shooting of 3.9 FPS and not sure what the buffer is) because the 5D Mk II is more for portrait work and I do some sports photography. I'm going to go with a Canon 50D or a Nikon D90.

pinguhk

right
if you take alot of photo on sport then 50D is the man.
Dont forget to get the Scandisk 8GB UDMA CF card itis fast
I take alot of portrait and less on sport cos there is no sports in HK.

seoulman

You don't go to the Macau Grand Prix? I shoot motorsports mostly. For this about 5 FPS is good.

pinguhk

never been, but will go 1 day.

heavy_g

RAW Support for cameras would be released AFTER the cameras are released to market, not before.

seoulman

That would make sense.

seoulman

Everyone! You'll be glad to know that I've come to a decision. A decision I may get some flack over, but I'm willing to live with that! Drum roll please!

I've decided to go with the Nikon D90~ Why? Because the Nikon rep and the manager of the camera shop I deal with, made me an offer on a Nikon D90 kit that I could not turn down!

The kit consists of:

- Nikon D90 body
- AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor ED 18-200mm F3.5-5.6G lens
- AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor ED 12-24mm F4G lens
- MB-D80 vertical grip
- EN-EN3e Li-ion batteries (2 - for MB-D80)
- SPEEDLIGHT SB-800
- Nikon NC filter (2 - for lenses)
- MC-DC2 remote shutter release
- Nikon SHOOTING BAG 1 gear bag
- SanDisk Extreme III SDHC 8GB Card

For a ridiculously low price! On top of that, due to the price difference of my previous camera kit and the new one, I will get to pocket almost half of the insurance settlement. How can you beat that? To all those that gave me their valuable advice, I am grateful and to those who impressed upon me the benefits of Canon, I apologize~ This decision does not mean that I don't appreciate the virtues of Canon DSLRs anymore. So be gentle when you start lambasting the choice I made. Much thanks everyone!

Richard in NC

Spend the rest on the 70-200 f2.8 VR lens. It's fantastic for sporting events, especially on a DX camera. I even added the 1.7 teleconverter for more range.

Here is the lens at 70mm. You can see I was high up in the stands and had crowd issues at the start of the race.

Here is it with the 1.7 (at 300mm) shooting to the far side of the track during the less crowded practice sessions. This is only a slight crop and resized to 1200 to fit the screen.
BTW, that's hand held at 1/160 (@ 300mm!!) with the monster lens on the camera. Imagine what it could do on a tripod in the press area.

pinguhk

that nice now you can go to Macau Grand Prix to take photos
but you should ask him to throw in the SanDisk ExtremeIV UDMA 8GB 45mb/s
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1997)...tFlash_8GB.aspx