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Old 21-07-2008, 03:42 PM
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Photography on a very tight budget

At the moment I'm just using a Canon IXUS 60 to take photo's with with it's obvious limitations. I'm hoping to get something a little better.

I was casually looking at Fuji FinePix S9600 Digital Camera (£200) or Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd Digital Camera (£140) when a friend in work offered me his:-

Canon 350D with 18-55mm lens kit
with a spare battery, charger, 2 gig CompactFlash and a spare 256mb

all for £200

I wasn't looking at DSLR because of the initial cost and also because of the subsequent cost of lenses (bearing in mind I can only afford £100-200 payouts at birthday/christmas times and certainly no more than that!)

Under such tight constraints what am I better off going for?

Bearing in mind at the moment my main photo's are macro ones of insects & hopefully trying for some easier shots of birds in the future.
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