sara_elizabeth

Brilliant, cheers guys!

I recently managed to lose the battery for my camera (no idea how, this is

probably a sign I shouldn't use my camera whilst drinking :p ), and now I'm

having difficulties trying to replace it as I have no idea what size of

battery it takes. The only clue I can get from the camera is that it needs 2

batteries, and not even the people in every photo shop in town have been able

to help. So if anybody knows which type of battery it is, could you please let

me know. Thank you, Sara.

My last camera, the one that was stolen, was actually a Rebel. It was brilliant, simple to use and took really good pictures, much better than my old Pentax. And it did definitely handle the rain well - I'm from the Highlands and now living in Aberdeen (Scottish, not English :->) so the camera got pretty used to it! And it served me well on my travels round Mongolia, that thing can take a fair beating. But despite it being a really good camera, I felt like I should maybe go for something a bit more advanced this time. Though next time I find a 2nd hand Rebel somewhere I don't think I'd pass it up.

Thank you very much for everybody's responses! I've been pondering this for ages and since none of my friends are into photography I've not had much advice so far.

It's 400 pounds I was thinking of spending, not dollars, which I guess is just shy of 800 dollars, so I guess I should be able to get a very good body and lenses for that if 400 dollars for a good body is about standard.

I hadn't actually thought about the fact that lenses will be more important than the body if using film, so thanks for that.

I'll investigate all the suggestions people offered now, then the next step will be actually finding time to go buy a camera!

Thank you again, Sara

Hello, I was wondering if people could offer me advise on what camera they

think I should buy. My last camera, a Canon Eos 1000f, was stolen and I

figured that while I'm replacing it, I may as well upgrade as well. It's a

film camera I'll be getting (contraversial I know, but I'm old-fashioned!).

I'm a purely amatuer photographer so would not be using the camera for

anything too fancy, and do not want something overly complicated that I'm not

going to be able to use. Although saying that, the only way I'll learn is to

be challenged. It doesn't neccessarily have to be a Canon EOS, I just quite

like this type of camera. I've actually found what looks to me like a pretty

good deal on a Nikon camera: Nikon F 55 Silver + AF 28-100mm f/3.5-5.6 G + AF

70-300mm f/4- 5.6 G Set, but I've heard some dodgy things about Nikons

breaking pretty easily. What do people think about this? I'm looking to spend

around ?400, which I know isn't much but I'm a poor student, and there's only

so much overtime I can fit in now that I'm in my final year! It would be good

if I good get a couple of lenses with this as well as the body. Also, if

anybody knows of good places in Britain to buy from that would be handy. Thank

you, Sara