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Originally Posted by 6ynylons
This is exactly, what I found out, what You write Somona !
Couldn`t have written it better.
I also looked often into www.imaging-resource.com
Also with the lenses You'r absolute right.
I shoot some hundred test-pix with the dozen cams in 2009.
And over a dozen test-vids with different cameras and camcorders in 2009.
Did You use the FujiFilm S3 and the Nikon D1, D2, D3, D3X's with the kit-lenses/zooms ?
Or with some 50 mm, 35 mm ?
Would be very nice to find a dsrl with a good kit-lens, but this is obviously probable only a nice dream, unfortunate.... 
In my hometown are a Canon 1000 D and a Sony alpha with around 14 MPix rather cheap at the moment.
I have them in my mind, but did not dare to buy one of 'em up to now.
Cheers  |
The choice of the lense is really depending of the kind of shooting you got to do ...20 mm, 35, mm, 50 mm are of course the best for portrait, nudes and all kind of nude & close ups....but you can also use some teleobjectrifs with non expensives bodies ...for exemple, when my wifs did some Wet & Messy shootings, I had a nikon D50 ( around 300 $ including the 18-55 mm lense ), the advantages I had with this bodies are :
Non expensive body, so I don't have to take care of it ( it wa not the case of the D3Xs ( around 7000 $ Nu body ) or D2X )
I could put any G series lenses which get a great result in exterior shootings, and which are really non expensive ( 28-80 - 70-300 etc ...)
It is a real light body, and after 2 hours , it`s really an advantage !...
Professionnal bodies have professionnal specifications ....dorect access on ISO, shutter speed, etc...in mode M, A, P etc....if you don't have to shoot in specific mode , you can use ( I recommand You ..) to chose a middle level body, which can provide you preselected modes
To give you exemples ...
This have been made with a D2X , 18-70 mm at 1200 Iso with quite no light (5.30 Am )
You got to use a professionnal body here to direct access on Iso mode and Aperture Priority .
This with a D1X , 28-80 mm at 200 Iso and P mode ...
And this with a D50 . 35 mm lense at 800 iso A mode ( 3 candles lights so not much light ...)
Both of the results are different, and in te one and the third, the conditions were quite the same ....so it`s up to you know
Nick