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>> What size card do you use, and which type of card is the best?

I have 1 4GB card and a bunch of 2GB. I also have some smaller cards left over from when memory was expensive and pixel counts were low. Most of my cards are SanDisk Extreme IIIs and I've always found the reliable.


>> Will the S5 Pro use a different Card to the D200? Will a D200 use the same card as a D80?

What Andrew said - D200 and S5 are the same (physically they are the same camera but the sensor is different and so's the firmware). D80 uses different shape memory.

>>When I do come to buy my Digital Kit it seems that I will be better off buying 2 Camera Bodies of the same model DSLR. Am I right with that assumption?

Up to you - that's what I ended up with but like I say I'm easily confused and having 2 identical bodies means I only have to learn one set of controls.

>> Does the same rule apply to Digital Lenses as the Normal 35mm Lenses?

This is a bit complicated.... "Digital Lenses" are optimised to work with digital chips (it's to do with how the light strikes the photo receptors...). Any lens that you can fit to a Nikon digital camera will have a 1.5X crop factor. It's almost like it's 1.5 X as long (but a bit more complicated...). This is purely to do with the sensor SIZE - if you fitted a 35mm lens to an APS film SLR then you would see the same effect. Likewise if you could fit a 35mm lens to a medium format camera it would seem "shorter" because the sensor size is bigger.

Canons have different sensor size depending on the model - so the crop factor is between 1 and 1.6. For a 4/3s camera like the Olympus the crop factor is 2.

BTW is that web address right? I can't reach the site...
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Thanks for the comments Johnathan.

It's all very useful information. I'm rather like you, I tend to get confused with certain aspects of photography.

It's taken me nearly 8 yrs to get a better understanding of photography. Going Digital is just another thing that I will eventually get use to. I'm convinced it will be worth it in the end. Thats why all the information that you and Andrew are giving me is helping me get a clearer understanding of Digital Photography and is preparing me more for when I buy. Thanks again.
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Dear Jonathan
Please check the following link where I answered to Kevin:

http://www.thinkcamera.com/forum/forummessages/mps/dt/4/UTN/434/V/7/SP/


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