Yes, Christmas came early for me. Simply because Ange wanted to get me photography equipment, but was afraid she'd buy the wrong thing. So she got me to find it for myself on Ebay.
I just won an auction about five minutes ago, and Christmas can't come early enough now.
It's a Minolta XG-9, and comes with a Vivitar f3.5-4.5 28-85mm Macro zoom lens, a Mitsuki f4 80-200mm zoom lens, both with their own skylight filters, front and rear caps, a Sakar 29MZ articulating flash, case for camera and Mitsuki lens, and even the original XG-9 user manual.
"I am a Canadian by birth, but I am a Highlander by blood and feel under an obligation to do all I can for the sake of the Highlanders and their literature.... I have never yet spoken a word of English to any of my children. They can speak as much English as they like to others, but when they talk to me they have to talk in Gaelic."
-Alexander Maclean Sinclair of Goshen (protector of Gaelic Culture)
I have no doubt that it'll be just as good. Well, the shipping costs almost as much as the camera. But for $142, it's still a steal, when you consider the cost of this much equipment from a local photography store.
The worst thing now, is she's making me wait until Christmas day to get it. I do expect to have gone insane by then.
Merry Christmas to you too, Avonlea. If I could ever advise anyone looking to buy a camera of any kind, I'd aim them at ebay. If you can handle owning something previously used, I see no reason to waste money on new. And these are even cheaper than used equipment found in camera stores.
OR ! Really really nice equipment! I am so happy for you!
However, I am excited too because of you I was able to win a Canon AE-1 Flash attachment that you directed me too for my camera!! I am really excited to get it soon! Thank you so much, OR! That will be my Christmas gift from hubby!
Nice setup oldraven. Merry Christmas early. Last year I go a Canon 3.2 mega pixels it is a lot different from what I was used to. I had a Olympus Infinity Zoom 35 that I dropped during a martial arts event and it just shattered. I am still trying to figure out the sound on my new one and I am not good at putting pics on the web etc. Anyhow happy shooting to ya!
I feel so behind with all the new computer and photographic technologies out there. How can I cope? I don't know...
I've been scouring the market for an affordable digital camera and all I've been able to find that suits my current budget is something in the range of $150. This isn't all that bad, mind you, I think the cam was like 2 megapixels or something to that effect.
I'd really like to get something with a bit more higher resolution (I think I'm using that term correctly when referring to megapixel amount) but I don't know where to start
Help me, please.
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Haldr, Traveller of the Great Forest
"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done."
Haldur, you're not going to find all that much as far as quality for less than $300 US, so $150 is probably good enough for most, but if you want high resolution, no. I wouldn't buy any less than 3mp. 5mp cameras are actually getting quite affordable now too. Just make sure it has a decent optical zoom, and ignore any mention of digital zoom. You can have both, but don't ever go by the digital zoom when purchasing a camera.
Annabelle, sorry to have left you with no pics. Here are a couple.
And here she is getting no know the TurboCoupe. Forgive the camera-phone crap quality.