I suggest avoiding the film slr route if you are just learning. The main reason is if you spend the money and go the digital route you will learn considerably faster.
The instant review on the lcd, histogram, etc beats waiting for days, an hour whatever to get your film developed. It really helps when you are first learning, trust me.
I also would pick a system, look at the lenses they are more important than the body is. If you like the Canon line up, buy a Canon body. If you like the Nikon line up, get a Nikon body.
When I was deciding it came down to Nikon having better wide angle lenses and Canon having better telephoto ones. I chose Canon, but you can't go wrong with either.
Don't waste time with another system, in a few years you'll be looking to ebay to hawk all that stuff to get a Canon or Nikon system.
This howto involved creating a seperate partition and copying your data over to it, then switching lilo to boot off of it. As far as I have seen there is no easy way to upgrade directly from ext2 to reiserfs...
Here is a pretty good howto for moving your root partition to ReiserFS. I used it a while ago, and haven't had any problems since then. ReiserFS seems to run a little faster, and the short fsck times are definetly nice.
http://kurt.andover.net/Reiser-filesystem-HOWTO.ht ml
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I suggest avoiding the film slr route if you are just learning. The main reason is if you spend the money and go the digital route you will learn considerably faster.
The instant review on the lcd, histogram, etc beats waiting for days, an hour whatever to get your film developed. It really helps when you are first learning, trust me.
I also would pick a system, look at the lenses they are more important than the body is. If you like the Canon line up, buy a Canon body. If you like the Nikon line up, get a Nikon body.
When I was deciding it came down to Nikon having
better wide angle lenses and Canon having better telephoto ones. I chose Canon, but you can't go wrong with either.
Don't waste time with another system, in a few years you'll be looking to ebay to hawk all that stuff to get a Canon or Nikon system.
Hope this helps.
This howto involved creating a seperate partition and copying your data over to it, then switching lilo to boot off of it. As far as I have seen there is no easy way to upgrade directly from ext2 to reiserfs...
Here is a pretty good howto for moving your root partition to ReiserFS. I used it a while ago, and haven't had any problems since then. ReiserFS seems to run a little faster, and the short fsck times are definetly nice. http://kurt.andover.net/Reiser-filesystem-HOWTO.ht ml
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