Originally Posted by
MHarmon
I am planning a several week trip through Europe and need a bit of advice about what kind of equipment I should take along. At the moment, I have a relatively good compact digital camera, but I would like to get a nice compact SLR with one or two lenses and maybe a flash, but I'm not sure about the flash yet ...
Anybody got any ideas??
1. Please give us some more info. How techy are you? How long have you been doing this for? Is this your first SLR? How important is compactness and weight? How much are you willing to spend? Are you going to want to add on to this with more lenses and accessories? What are you going to use it for, landscape or city, people or buildings, indoors or outdoors? What's your current compact camera? Are you going to print those photos, yourself or with a service?
I know that's a lot of questions but you could just as well ask us which kind of car you should buy to drive in Europe. The fact that you use the cam in Europe has no influence on what kind of cam we can recommend, so basically any info you get out of this request is (at least methodologically) worthless. Sorry, guys!
2. Read
www.dpreview.com . The best source on cameras on the net afaik. THe forums are extremely helpful. Do a search for travel+ dslr.
3. Wonder if you really need a DSLR with two lenses or whether an Ultrazoom like the Olympus and such wouldn't do it. Or maybe even a G10 or Panasonic TZ5 or TZ7.
Good luck,
Till