About to purchase XSI

[Colin]

Oops... I was talking first about the 50mm f/1.4.... The quotes seemed to have disappeared..too short I mean.

If cost is a key factor, consider refurbished. The XSi is a fine unit in terms of image quality for the money, but the 20D/30D/40D/50D series step you up into a relatively bad ass sports camera for not too much more. I still get a kick out of my obsolete and 'slow' 5 frames per second on my 30d.


Hey, does anybody know anything about those Casio cameras that claim 40 frames per second? For $600 or so, I'm guessing that the optics are nothing to smile about, but it sounds pretty cool for getting pictures of explodiding things ...

[donnman]

Finally decided on the XSI with the kit lens. The price is in my budget, the entire package on Dell is for a total of $604.03, which includes tax and shipping.


Do you think that is a good price??

[Daniel Browning]

Yes, it's a great price. Good research on your part.

[nerdmonkey]

That does seem like a good price. Amazon has been bumping the price from $640 to $680 for the XSi kit for the last couple of weeks, so it looks like you were able to get pretty good savings at Dell. I bought my XSi for $830 (after a $70 coupon) at Circuit City shortly after it came out, so you got quite a deal by waiting 9 months!