Canon 450D

Hi everyone, happy new year to you all.

I'm thinking of buying a Canon 450D as I have lenses that will fit from another camera. Can anyone tell me about this camera, or better still, show me some pictures taken with one.

Many thanks Pete

Here you go Pete and sample pics included......

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos450d/

Besides any taken on PoE, if you go to Flickr, and put 450D in its search box, there's around 150,000  450D images to look at too.

450D,  not bad at all.  Some find it a bit small in the hand, but that is personal preference.  

Best advice would be to go play with the various models in the shop, and make sure it feels good.   Try navigating around the various menu's and functions.

Remember, the body is the cheap bit.   The most important is the glass you stick on the front of it.

They will fit and work on the 450D Pete, but also bear in mind the focal length will appear to have changed----by 1.6x longer--than what you may have been used to on a 35mm ( or full frame) camera, and with the APS-C sensor, it'll be looking through less of the lens too, with it's outer portions not being used.

And to take on-board Mick's point, I've seen photos from a 400D using L Series lenses that have been astonishing due to the quality of the lenses used.

Look on ebay for old lenses and get an m42 adaptor. theyre cheap!! for instance you can get a 50mm 1.8 lens for about £10 and a 1.4 for about £50.You dont get any control though and will have to manually focus and set aperture. I have a  canon 20d and these lenses all fit and work with an adaptor get the 42mm screw thread and adaptor.if poss. Nearly all the old lenses will fit but dont quote me on that, about the only ones that dont are old canon FD lenses.Carl Zeiss are good but come at a premium price, pentax super takumur are good and you can sometimes get them cheap.Just make sure its the m42 screw fit and not some weird fitting.

Minolta rokkor m42 50mm @f1.4 seems a good lens youll need an MD adaptor though, theres lots of example photos on flickr wirth this lens on a digital camera.