FAQ: What is the best digital SLR?

[ustein]

>Moral; If top quality "optics" isn't your priority, you don't need the manufacturers best lenses.

True, but your lenses are not bad either. I would recommend your lens kit (except I don't know the Tamron 90mm) to anyone who looks at weight and tighter budget. Actually I would love the 70-200mm f/4 if it had IS.

The new 70-300 DO IS lens could be my travel kit lens.

Again, you have to know yourself.

I wanted to explain why having lenses from Canon/Nikon may not mean too much (as in my case).

Uwe

[Michael Fanelli]

The best DSLR is the one you use.

[ustein]

>The best DSLR is the one you use.

Right. But some plan to buy their first :-)

Uwe

[Peter_AUS]

Then the best DSLR is the one you can afford at the time. If you don't think you would be satisfied with what you can afford then I suggest the person should wait.

I do think, if you have use for the fully featured cameras over the cut down ones, example 10D over the 300D, then you get the 10D. I thought about getting the 300D instead of the 10D, but decided on the 10D as it is close to my EOS30 (Elan 7).