@busyman: No harm buying a body 1st, then later only buy lenses. With your budget RM3k, I will say the same thing as bad melatonin, get D90 body + 50mm f/1.8D 1st.

550D VS D90? Of course D90, reasons, 1, build-in AF motor (extra advantage) and 2, the  top LCD (looks cool  ). Anyway, don't be fooled by the MegaPixel.

In terms of the price for lenses, Canon or Nikon, both are slightly the same. But bare in mind, Canon's lenses will not come with hoods, you need to buy it (Generel_Nic told me this). 

Still, the choice is in your hand. Cheers 

lenspen only clean the lens surface only rite...not to use on CCD...

LOL, I thought it applies to all of their lenses, including L lenses, maybe I didn't pay too much attention to your talking? 
Woot? 550D has a AF motor? (Didn't really read the specs) 
Very very sorry to busyman.
D70!!! Hmmm, but D70 has a smaller LCD, then D70 using CF cards intead of SD (some ppl prefer CF), then don't have black&white, sepia, negative etc etc. Maybe girls won't like it. Worst of all, no self cleaning sensor!! 

But on the other hand, D70 is bigger (nice to hold), got AF motor, got top LCD, flash sync 1/500, got grid view (not sure D3000 got or not), use same battery as D90, D300, D300s and D700(longer life span) etc etc.
Consider D70s? Can use battery grip and bigger LCD.

But for a girl (not that I look down on her), perhaps D3000, easy to maintain, easy to carry around hehe. 

every canon has built in motor , not meh ?@@

hur? Then I was confused, I thought entry lvl Canon doesn't have AF motor. Then AFAIK all Sony have AF motor, don't tell me don't have ar?     

1)if take bug pic, i would prefer micro lens ea: tamron sp90, AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
  if animal,are you capturing animal like lion,tiger those?? or bird?? there are different categories for them,AFAIK for bird shoot, u need at least 
  400mm..if normal animal like cat and dog those,i think 18-105 if enough...

2)what is running river mean?? sry for my poor english

YES IT DOES!
and your DSLR will look cool with bg 

Hello  guys.

im new to DSLR world.
my mom want to buy nikon DSLR. so i recommend her D90 coz can take video(replacing old videocam also)
Budget is around RM5k.
But when i search at lelong, some written"body kit" , "lenses" ,etc but price around RM4k like that.
i need to know REAL D90 price and what is included in that package.

wanna to ask about 55-200mm nikon lens af-s f4-5.6~ is better or 18-200 tamron 3.5-5.6f better? wondering which one to buy = =" budget budget ^^~

18-55 not for sale hahaha is my 1st lens and it never for sale XD ^^ hmmm but now tammy 18-200 new is how much ar? just now i when to nikon centre test the 18-200 vr 2 f 3.5-5.6 damn cun XD poisoned XD but too expensive 2.7k T_T... So should i go for nikon 55-200 ?

haha why not sell the kit len and go for the 18-105 VR which cost less than rm1 k
well if u really interested with taking birds or sport car /man photography then u ll need the 200mm
without the VR/VC its so hard to get nice pics especially for cigarette smoker like me

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Added on April 11, 2010, 7:07 pm

why not ? we got so many passionate hobbyist SLR user in here.
we can always help for 10 times cheaper than those cut throat wedding shop

prepare 1 table for 10 LYN photographer , i guarantee the wedding will look like a celebrity wedding.

stop poisoning lar, he is a newbie and have no idea at all,
A d90 set with kit len is more than enough.
Keep the rest of the cash in hand for future planning.
Dont buy something u dont really need.

Most of us are waiting in secondhand market for people like u hehe

my wedding is on the Nov, i ll make an invitation and hopefully u can drop by with only your 70-200 for paparazzi shots and enjoy your food at the same time haha.

i just canceled a photo shoot organize by LYN group due to some personal reason.
Will update when i get a confirm date

my cousin's wedding a lot of flashes too, but difference is all frm pop-up flash 
except the hired photographer's 580EXII n my SB900 la 
y dai sei? 
looking forward to the photoshoot, hope will not cancel out 
come KL la~ let me molest 70-200 VRII~ 

I going back melaka this coming week, got TT at station 1? I wan to play your 70-200VR2

y me again? lol 
here u go, giants on dwarf 


The Sigmalux made the camera look even smaller 
must have BG only look balance 

sory, crappy pic taken using Nokia 5800 

have you seen Canon 50mm F/1.2 L ?

Of course "the one using the flash suxx if the outcome is bad".
But then I want to know which one would the norms prefer to use.
Of course including the consideration of the pros and cons.