Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:43 pm
Look in pbase for people who's work you would like to emulate and chech out their profiles to see what they are shooting with. If you want to shoot sports and I want to shoot insect life we should not be shooting with the same equipment.
That said I have had my d300 ( it sounds cooler than digital rebel ro kiss don't ya think?) since September and while it lacks the bells and whistles of a 6K camers it is my favorite toy/tool. You will enjoy it.
As for the zooming question, each lense has it's sweet spot where it likes to be, like an f-stop, the lense will do best towards the middle of it's range since it is by it's nature a compramise between two primes. Some designs and each build in a design cover that range with more grace than others. A 6K canon L lense on a D1 body will get you a sharper picture than a $340.00 75-300 on a 300d. That said since you are shooting for a college paper, take either of these setups and put their shots on the crappy stock and print in the third rate ink that my college paper was pinted with and you will not see the slightest difference.