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- Bullitt
Thinking about getting into it. Lent one off a mate this weekend ( Cannon eos 300d) and now I'm hooked. Which one would you guys recommend?
Budget no more than £500.00
- uan0
check http://www.dpreview.com/
- MrOneHundred0
-1 for inappropriate use of apostrophe.
- ArmandoEstrada0
+1 for pointing out the inappropriate use of apostrophe.
- +1 for the +1. I believe this thread has been sufficiently suffocated.MrOneHundred
- lmaoBuddhaHat
- agreed.ArmandoEstrada
- ArmandoEstrada0
But before this goes to further shit, depends on your budget. photography can be a very expensive hobby. Personally, I am a Canon whore. Nikons are generally less expensive, but price should not be the deciding factor. Go to your local camera shop. Hold them in your hand. See what feels comfortable. I hear the rebels are pretty good. But It should also be treated as an investment, so I would suggest a 50D as a very good starter camera.
- my grammar is shit just trying to get thoughts across quickly....ArmandoEstrada
- -1 for the... ah never mind.MrOneHundred
- Ahhhahaha. You meant D50? 50D as a starter camera looks somewhat inappropriate :)tmikwid
- -1 for not noticing his budget is £500...Raniator
- +1 for the use of 'whore'.Raniator
- jaylarson0
40d with lens, memory cards, and other shit.
+1 on bad grammar
- epete220
i bought a sony a200 as a starter. It's a great camera for the money, without stepping into canon range.
- tkmeister0
don't do it. you'll soon find yourself wanting the equipment you can't afford and spending thousands of dollars.
- BuddhaHat0
epete has a point, the alpha series from Sony does come in a bit cheaper, the question you need to ask if you go down that path is about commitment... once you invest in lenses with one brand, you may find the next body you upgrade to won't fit your existing equipment. I suppose this is one big advantage of the Nikons and Canons (even though I know Sony has fittings for Konica Minolta lenses).
cnet.com.au has some interesting comparisons for the average punter:
Which Nikon: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalca…
Which Canon: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalca…
Best Mid-Range DSLR: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalca…
SLRs for savvy shooters: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalca…
Canon EOS 50D: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalca…If you're from the US, I'm sure you can find much better pricing, the Aussie dollar sucks ass at the moment, but it's good info nonetheless.
- omgitsacamera0
No no no!
Save yourself. Don't make the same mistakes I did.
New book, "How to be a photographer, without losing your soul."
- SkyPoo0
Buy whatever you can afford and then craft a style that is personal and unique to you that takes advantage of the limitations of your chosen equipment. The quest for ever more lenses, bodies, and add-ons is a foolhardy attempt to buy creativity... unless you are a pro photographer of course and need to be able to do lots of stuff.
I always bang on and on about my RD1 on here, but really every time I spend some time with that camera I love it more and more. I have one lens for it, a Leica 50mm. There's no zoom, no automatic anything, its a digital camera but I have to wind it on to cock the mechanical shutter, I have to set aperture and focus manually in the traditional way, so really I'm very limited. When I picked it up on holiday last week it was the first time I'd used it in many months. For a couple of days the shots were pish, then I got into step with my equipment and started working to exploit it and the shots just got better and better.
Very long post. Apologies, I just think the pleasure comes from not collecting loads of stuff that gives youtoo many options, but finding out how to work with the basics you will have with a single fuss free camera.
- Doorman0
Canon not CANNON
- digdre0
Canon or Nikon
but I have a sony. also decent. and about 300euros
- Shepstar150
I'd go for a Nikon D80, there is a D90 now but still the D80 is a really good DSLR Cam for a starter.