Recent content by danprice

Have you tried more than one memory card? I had this issue on my 450d last week and when looking at the memory card I noticed a tiny bit of the plastic casing had snapped off. Computer reads the card fine but the 450d just says no card. Have ordered a new card to replace it.

I bought a non VC version from procamerashop.co.uk. Great lens and great service - it arrived next day.

What lenses do you currently have? If you're going to be shooting in low light you really need something fast like the Canon 50mm 1.8 (nifty fifty). This should enable you to get some nice shallow depth of field shots in fairly low light. If you don't have a nifty fifty already I'd advise...

As far as I'm aware if you're shooting RAW, the RAW image will always be saved as colour even if shooting in B&W. If you were shooting jpeg the image in Light Room would be B&W.

Have you considered the Tamron 17-50 2.8? I just got one about a month ago and I'm loving it so far. Picked it up for aout £250 online.

It's a Canon 450d.

Thanks for all the replies on this. Makes more sense now. Does anyone have more info about the above? I've searched for M42 lens on eBay but not sure what's best/what to avoid etc? Would quite like to have a play around with a manual focus lens.:thumbs:

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm just wondering why you can't get primes at focal lengths different to 50mm for a similar price? I have a Canon 450d and love my nifty fifty I picked up on here. I'd now like to add some wider angle primes to my bag but I've noticed they're much more...

Thanks for the extra advice. Camera arrived yesterday and managed to have a quick play round with it, just shooting random objects round the flat etc. Really pleased with it so far. Hopefully will get a chance to use it more over the weekend and also will look into downloading the...

Brilliant. Thanks for all the help guys. Really useful. Think I'll give the UV filter a miss for the moment and get out there taking some photos! I'm hopefully getting a couple of photography books for my birthday so they should give me some tips etc.

Hi there, I'm brand new to the world of DSLR cameras and my first purchase, a Canon 450D, should be arriving today. I am just after a bit of advice as to what else I'm going to need. So far I have the camera which comes with the standard kit lens and I've bought an 8gb SD card. I...

Thanks for the advice everyone. Think I'll go ahead and buy. Might look into one of those refurb ones off ebay.

Thanks. Already have an HD camcorder so not worried about it doing video. So should I bite the bullet? :shrug:

Hi, I'm new to the forum here and am looking into buying my first DSLR. After having a play with a couple in Jessops I've pretty much decided on getting a Canon 450D. Before I make the purchase I was just wondering if this model was due to be replaced soon? I see it was launched in Jan...