Help: Need your advice

[Pang-Jio Man]

HI,

I am a posting this thread for a friend. She was given this canon set up and two lenses.

1) Canon EOS 1000F
2) Canon zoom lens EF 35-80mm 1:4-5.6
3)Canon lens EF 50mm 1:1.8 II

my questions are:

1) with the lenses above , is it worth keeping and sticking to canon system?? , i am planning to buy a dslr to replace the canon EOS 1000F and use the two lens above.. If i buy a dslr, which model of camera is compatible with the two lenses above??


2) How good are the lenses above, I plan to move ahead in photography so if the lens are not worth keeping, i may have more options as to which camera system i may go into rather than just sticking to canon.

Thanks for suggestions.

 

[jasonteoch]

both the lenses can be use in any of the canon digital camera

 

[Arterra]

The lenses are not too bad for a starter.

Why don't try out with the current setup you have now to grasp the concept first before investing?

 

[tempdan]

check this out for the lens price
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131801&page=53

i believe that nobody sells 35-50m anymore.

50mm 1.8 is cheap.

if you want to stick canon system: both lenses can be use.

if you dont want to stick to canon: the lost is only a bit.

 

[pplneedthelord]

since you're asking this in the canon thread. most of us will definetly would like you to stay on using a Canon system

 

[Octarine]

Canon has one mount system called "EF mount" - all lenses with EF mount (and also EF-S) are able to work on any body with EF mount. EF is the standard for Canon now.
If you move towards digital cameras you need to learn about the "crop factor": due to the smaller image sensor on most digital SLR (for Canon the xxxD and xxD series, and 1000D) the field of view will change compared to your film SLR. Read up about this, there are hundreds of pages explaining 'crop factor'. Canon crop factor is 1.6. Nikon and others have different crop factors.
This means for your lenses: your 35-80mm lens will give the same field of view as a 58x128mm lens - it becomes a light telephoto lens which is still usable for portraits. The same goes for the 50mm lens. If you want to keep both lenses I recommend getting a DSLR with kit lens to cover the lower focal length range. Kit lenses today are about 18-55mm. If this is not wide enough there are Ultra Wide Angle lenses (10-20mm).
Regarding bodies: read the reviews to see what is suitable for you. Even entry level bodies deliver decent pictures. www.dpreview.com and others have tons of data and comparisons. Finally: go and have hands on tests for handling.