Canon 450D or Nikon D5000??

[Bri w]

Mrs w :smt061 is buying me an un-birthday pressie. :makelurve:

Which of the above?

Would you get the twin lens bundle, or the body with a 70-300mm?

What does she expect in return? :smt008

[gettin2dizzy]

Canon 450D is very nice, and a good step up from my 400. I'd get just the kit lens, and then wait a little until you know for sure what lens to buy.

[the_lone_wolf]

Canons seemed extremely small when I went looking/testing at them, worth checking out, either camera will do more than you need but if it's a pain to handle it won't be fun to use...

Kit lens is the most useful, but a 70-300 has it's moments

[barwel1992]

GF has the d5000 and its very nice, and has loads of functions, the lens is also very good, but would benefit from more zoom (and thats only after 2 days of playing with it) and the 720p video is nice and sharp and the sound is good

this is a photo i took with the d5000 yesterday in Stratford on manual settings (i think it was 1/25 shutter 300iso auto WB and cant remember what the aperture was)

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo16/barwell1992/DSC_0104.jpg

[Springbokki]

Have you considered the Pentax k-x? Dual lens kit too. £500ish off dixons online.