What is the best SLR digital camera for a beginner that won’t cost my soul?
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at
5:43 am
I have been using a basic manual 35mm camera but it is becoming quite expensive to process and get prints. I am kind of an idiot with technoloy but would like a good SLR digital camera that has a manual feature and can be fitted with different lenses. What would be a good one for a beginner that may be affordable?
US $22.00
Affordable is very relative. I think the Nikon D3100 is a very good buy at the moment. But, perhaps you got lenses with your film camera you’d want to reuse in which case you will need to tell us a bit more about your current camera and lenses.
Pentax K-x. Shoot just like you were using your 35mm and learn digital as you go along.
Get a used one off eBay. Sony A200, Nikon D40 type camera.
New? Sony A230 or A290. Sonys take every Sony/Minolta AF lens since 1985, as well as those from Sigma, Tamron, Tokina etc. Plenty of cheap lenses on eBay.
You can spend the extra on a Nikon/Canon if you want to fall into that trap, but it isn’t going to produce better images as dSLR images are very much the same at the budget end.
Hey,
And what’s the price of your soul? We can’t know specifically, so it’s harder to recommend.
I recommend Canon EOS XS, XSi and Nikon D3100.
Here’s a post called ‘Buying a DSLR, what’s important, megapixels, features, brand, price and which one to buy – http://www.the-dslr-photographer.com/2009/03/which-dslr-to-buy.html
Good luck! The site has many more tutorials, tips, reviews and guides!