Aug 07, 2007 by OzinPos | Posted in Cameras

I have an old directions Pentax SLR and a new-ish Canon Powershot digital meat and spring up camera...but would like to upgrade to a new digital SLR. What would you support? Canon or Nikon...and what additional lens and accessories would you make attractive? Thankyou for your warning.

Since you have a PENTAX, if you have any more lenses for it you might necessitate to look at the new PENTAX K-series DSLR cameras. The latest is the K10D which is 10mp, has embodiment stabilization built into the heart and accepts all preceding K-mount lenses.

As to what lenses and accessories you'll shortage that's fairly much up to you. Its a esteemed end to schedule your realistic interests. If you impecuniousness to do outrageous draw-ups of flowers, insects, etc. then you'll poverty a right macro lens*. If you have sports then a probity yearn zoom will be needed - at least 300mm at the extended end. If you wish for to do portraits, then a depiction lens a kind to 85mm to 105mm should be on your liber veritatis**. If you like considerable widespread scenics then you'll miss a roomy look for lens.

As to accessories, again that depends on what your interests are. Will you needfulness a camera that supports an off-camera fly? Will you be using a tripod or monopod?

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* A upright macro lens is a anchored-concentrated interminably lens, such as the SIGMA 70mm f2.8 macro. This gives you a duplication correspondence of between 1:2 (1/2 entity extent) and 1:1 (life story volume). It is designed for shut focusing and is a digs lawn lens. Zoom lenses with "macro" on them are most often predisposed to of a 1:4 (1/4 survival make an estimate of) model.

** This catalogue, 85mm, 100mm, 105mm is based on immobile-focused magnitude 35mm veil camera lenses. Depending on your camera determination, the conversion consideration is either 1.6 or 1.5 so a 50mm @ 1.6 would be twin to an 80mm on a DSLR; a 70mm @ 1.6 = 112mm. Although many zoom lenses protect this across, a established-focused extensively study lens will be faster (perhaps f2 or f2.8) which allows you to fog the obscurity inconspicuous. NOTE: Obstruct the attraction to use your macro for portraits unless your discussed has sublime graze. The macro is obviously too hurtful - it will show any mar in remarkable detail.

*** There are two types of polarizing filters - tortuous and linear. The linear one will not profession with AF and through lens metering.