Dear Sarg96:

The PIPE Here...after a long, LONG absence !

Looks like you've had experience with a so-called "P & S", or "point-&-shoot", digital camera or two already, so, where you've got Canon film lenses in your collection, sticking with the Canon brand would be your most logical choice.

I got my initial digital camera experience with an Olympus C770 point & shoot camera, but since I've had a Pentax K1000SE "film burner" SLR camera for almost thirty years now, back in 2007, when I was still working (I've been laid off from my full time CAD job for four months now) I got myself a six megapixel Pentax K100D digital camera "kit" to use my stock of Pentax film lenses with...

...and, from the results I got with my Vivitar Series One 70-210mm "Pentax K-mount" all-manual zoom lens, viewable at http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/p...0mm-k100d.html , I'd say that I've started to get the same sort of photos I've gotten with my old "film burner" in the past, and now much more recently, with the K100D.

A few of my Pentax K1000SE film-shot vintage photos of Old Rhinebeck's aircraft can be found at a photo gallery of their Royal Aircraft factory F.E.8 pusher fighter reproduction, namely at http://www.colepalen.com/AircraftAlbums-FE8.html , as photos numbers 3 through 5 at that page, and one of their first repro Sopwith Camel, at http://www.colepalen.com/AircraftAlb...withCamel.html as photo no. 12.

By the way, my German Email buddy, Jens Klank, an antique aviation shutterbug if you've ever seen one, uses Canon gear as I'm guessing you'll be doing...his main website at http://www.biplanes.de/index_eng.php (for the English language homepage) is FULL of the photo work from both himself and his brother Alex...and apparently all shot with Canon digital cameras.

Jens has a good number of my Pentax K1000SE film-shot Old Rhinebeck AVRO 504 reproduction photos at his tribute page to his favorite WW I aviation design, at http://www.biplanes.de/bilderserien/ora_avro/index.php ...and one of the photos there, at http://www.biplanes.de/bilderserien/..._big.php?id=14 , is one I RE-shot with my K100D digital in 2007...and quite MAGNIFICENTLY re-shot, as well...

...but when my home PC's twin 36 GB SCSI hard disks got SICK just a few days before Halloween 2008, it became inaccessible, and I'm going to have to do a data recovery session in a few months (when I can afford it) to be able to access it once more.

Just wishing you luck with your future Canon digital SLR (and check out Jens' photos of his "Barnstormer's BBQ" events he's held in Germany in the recent past, ALL shot with Canon digitals)...

Yours Sincerely,

The PIPE!