Philip Kendall

Are you aware the 650D is already discontinued?

I'd strongly advise against the 75-300 lens - it's pretty awful. You'd be much better off paying the small amount extra for the 55-250.

There is de facto no difference. It's exactly the same optics in a new case; I believe some Canon marketing materials when the IS II was launched claimed the IS II would be better at detecting when...

You can equally do that on Flickr - set the photos to be private and then create a "Guest Pass".

Canon 100mm f/2; bit of an obvious answer, really :-)

I think you're a bit confused about some basic concepts here. While the lens has a fixed focal length, what that means is that it's magnifies the scene by the same amount, not that it's always...

The 1100D is available with either the stabilized 18-55 IS or unstabilized 18-55 III lens. No good reason ever to buy the unstabilized version as the price premium is zero, but if that's what's...

In particular, the time for any interchangeable lens camera to focus is much more dependent on the lens than the body, so a list by camera is pretty much pointless.

"Bokeh" is normally used to refer to the quality of the blur produced, rather than the quantity. For that, the kit lens is OK. If what you mean is "is it possible to get a shallow depth of field",...

I think you need to zoom and/or crop a lot tighter. There's some decent action there, but there's far too much uninteresting space in those shots.

If the gym where you're going to be shooting has reasonably consistent lighting across the court, I'd recommend shooting full manual - otherwise the uniforms have a nasty habit of throwing your...

To echo what other people have said to an extent: make sure some of your budget is assigned for upgrading your lenses as well. You'll see a big difference moving from what is I assume the old...

I have no problems at all with my Chinese knock off batteries in my 550D's charger.

The camera works well with any ISO. Depending on who you believe, there may be a very small advantage to working with ISO multiples of 160... but this is much more a theoretical advantage than an...

As always, we can probably help a lot more if you post some shots (with EXIF data intact). The most likely causes are too slow a shutter speed or lack of focus lock, but without seeing a picture...

Consider picking up a used 18-55 IS - they're generally available pretty cheap when people sell them on after upgrading - and as already been stated, a 50mm f/1.8. Or just get the 18-135 as you've...

The S95 and S100 are the predecessors to the S110 and are almost as capable, but generally available significantly cheaper.

Avoid the 75-300 like the plague. As for the 55-250 vs the 70-300, you get what you pay for.

An SX280 seems to be entirely not what you need - it's optimised for a big zoom range in a little body, and you have no need for that.

Handwaving a bit with dofmaster, it looks like a 28mm lens at f/16 will give you around about a 20cm DoF at a subject distance of 0.5m on most APS-C cameras. APS-C is (frantic handwaving) about the...