Digital Camera Canon Eos 400D ??

We bought one in November and it is an awesome camera, the wife loves her photography and its hard to get it off her.

She also says it makes my photography look good.

Cheers Steve.

Birdy, My wife has a 10D (had it for about 3 years, so paid a heap for it). Son has a 400D. Both great cameras. The 400D is senstional for the money. You can buy the body for about $900 these days.
400D has a few less feature than the 10D, but you will NEVER even use all the capability of the 400D. The 400D is also a lot lighter, so if lugging around on long walks, it might make a difference.

My wife bought Sigma lenses and says to make sure you get lenses designed for a digital camera. SIgma make great lenses and are cheaper than Canon. For the first year or so, she used her old lenses off her film camera (paid thousands for them, now worth bugger all). She got some good advice from a pro photographer and bought new lenses a year or so back. We thought the previous pics were great, but specialist lenses make a big difference.

You won't go wrong with the 400D I reckon. Make sure you have lots of memory and take a laptop or similar to download regularly. We took about 3,000 pics on our 16 week trip last year. How many could your take in a trip around Oz???

For what my 2 cents is worth I have a Cannon 300D (love it) and was looking at upgrading a while back (wife says its hers lol) ........ I was looking at either the 400D or the 30D and from a lot advise I got I could simple get some better lenses and use with my 300D and this would help a lot in the end result. This has nothing to do with my ability in taking the shot which needs a lot of help lol.

So a 400D is 2 models up from mine and not sure of the main difference other than the mine is a 6.3 Megs and the 400D is 10 megs. I think there is now a 450D???

Personally I say yes to the 400D and if the $$$ spread get a good lense.

I may be shot down but thats my 2 cents. I'm still looking at 400D and the 30D but more urgent thing are in front at this stage:).

Have a great trip.

Brian

I dont know if the 400D is same as 300D, but the "AUTO", the focusing goes out of wack, and needs to be reset every once in a while.. couldnt understand why all my shots on Auto were filthy out of focus.. I dont use auto much, but when want mates to get shots of me, I set it to auto for them, for ease of use.

Went to few camera stores, they all said "ahh a 300D, the focusing needs resetting"...
Went to Canon, the bloke knew instantly what it was, $80 later it's fixed.

G'day Birdy,
I'm really impressed with my 400D. One of the main reasons I bought one was you can interchange with numerous lenses unlike most of it's competitors.
Regards
CraigB

And the 400D has an "Up to $200 cashback" Until 31st July.
It's not often I browse the Canon site. I'm a nikon kinda guy

Great camera. Suggest you look at the package deals available that also include the 70 to 300mm zoom lens. Can't go wrong then.

First will say Canon & Nikon are like Holden v Ford & Nissan v Toyota
I personally have a Nikon D50 & D80 & the bride would say you got enough lenses yet lol
have always been a canon man when had film bodies looked @ both the 350D & 400D but found even with my small hands they didn't feel comfortable ,they are small bodies
What ever you do go feel the bodies in your hands before you make a decision
And get the best possible lenses you can. As you will get a new body of a camera before you get new lenses
Having said that once lens lust sets in u are never satisfied
look @ www.dpreview.com or join a Australian forum like www.Dslrusers.net
they both have Canon & Nikon forum pages but you will get mainly honest replies of the equipment photogs use
If you require any further info please mm me
warren aka aussichef

Pentax k10D is about the same price and is easier to hold in the hand.

I found my hand cramps up after a while when handling the 400D.

Only problem with the k10D is the limited number of good lenses (ie there are about 3-5 lenses in the range 10-300mm worth purchasing).

If purchasing Sigma - make sure it's an APO lense (regardless of mount)

Thanks for the replies.

It appears most people are happy with their Eos wether it is a 300D or 400D and a lot of other people I have spoken with have recommended them. Im hoping for the outlay It will be noticeably better to my old Canon S70 !?

The Eos 400D has a pack that comes with an extra lense at the moment. Is it worth the extra couple of hundred dollars for the extra lense (not sure of size or type at the moment until I go back to the shop) or would I be better buying the base pack and buying my own lense ??

Any recommendations for a middle of the range lens ?

Thanks heaps and looking forward to purchasing my new toy !!!!

If you want to avoid changing lenses in dusty wet environments then look at getting an 18-200 zoom.

The snobs will say you can't possibly get good quality from that length zoom but they're living in the past.

I have the Sigma, but Canon and Nikon make their own also.

We were in the market for a camera recently and I read plenty of great reviews of the Cannons particularly the 400D seemed to have plenty of reviews and info around on the web.
However for our use ended up with the Powershot A710IS, point and shoot with potential to learn some of the manual functions.