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Canon 300D owners

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Simon_Howes

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I'm just curious, do you ever regret buying a 300D? And for those that rushed out to buy the 300D when it launched, did you wish you had waited?

I have spoken to two different 300D owners and they were not happy after Nikon bought out the D70 and the price of the Fuji S2 Pro dropped a few weeks after the 300D was launched.
 
i paid full price for it when i bought it, $999. I hear its gettable around 850 or so now. Always would be nice to save the money :)


The only thing i "regret" is that the body is the cheap part, its the lenses, flashes, tripods, memory cards, etc that cost the real money.

A prosumer ~6mp with ~6-8x zoom may have been a better choice for me, but im sticking with the rebel for now ;) and am keeping busy lusting over lenses i cant afford quite yet.
 
Not a bit. The extra features on the D70 weren't anything necessary to me (I upgraded from an all-manual Minolta SLR), so I appreciated getting body + lens for less than the D70 body.
 
kinda wish the 300d had a bigger buffer but i could also quit machine gunning it so much
 
I wish i could have gotten it for 850 instead of 1000, but even at 1000 i still think its a GREAT deal.

I dont quite understand a couple of things though (not to rant and rave here though)

but the D70's body isnt any better than the DR... they are both plastic - except the DR has a metal interior frame, not the D70.

AND, other than the buffer size and aditional buttons... but with the firmware hack, the feature set is ALMOST the same, except the DR has ISO 100...

edit: personally, i do like the way the D70 looks better, by a lot... but oh well. but, i was going to say, the buffer doesnt really bother me that much. the bigger issue for me, is that i have a very slow CF card, which slows everything down big time.
 
yeah i think for $860 (the price my friend just paid at best buy for his) you can find no better more capable camera.
 
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