Best SLR Camera?

[Dan507]

looking to get a new decent camera, im a noob with cameras so i am seeking advice in which is the best one i could get, with around 200 notes?

Ta Much ^^,

[series70boy]

film or digital????

if you want a brand new digital slr camera then you wont get one for any less than about £400 and that would be bog standard to say the least!!!!!

you gould get a factory refurbished olympus pen ep-1 with 14-42 lens of ebay for £267

but if you want a 35mm film slr you could have something top of the range for that much money!!!!!!

if your just after a decent digital camera then the fujifilm 'bridge' cameras are awesome for how much they cost

[nazzurro19]

Defo get a canon as any lense will fit them so you can pick up cheaper lenses rather then nikon only etc i use the 450D which is 10.3mp and is very good i got the body 55mm lense 4 cf cards and 2 batterys in mint condition for £130 i personally love canon , great shutter sound easy to use and a brilliant novice entry cam the iso settings and manual etc is also very good

[Dan507]

errrghh, all this camera stuff is like hyroglifics.

could people link me up please ;)

[Dan507]

Jeeze. Not cheap then. I'll have a look at the connon and the fugi then

You reckon I could get a cheap second and one from eBay then.

[Dan507]

Fair enough. I'll have a look into the fugi bridge then

[Nanglebadger]

rubix dude - whats your opinion on this. I've heard this said a few times, that the area to spend the money in is not the bodies but the lenses. would u say thats a fair comment in your experience dude?

Phil.

[Nanglebadger]

ok man cheers.

for his reference if he comes on, i have a Nikon D50 at my disposal, not exactly sure if thats SLR or DSLR or what exactly, i aint clued into that stuff, but its a great area for discussion on the forum as there are alot of interested parties.

i think his input would be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

Phil.

[Chris250]

I'm the person Rubix is on about, personally I'm a Canon man but the person who a shoot weddings with is a Nikon man.

It comes down to personal preference at the end of the day what you go for for brand.

As for the camera's, it really depends on what it's going to be used for. If it's just to be mucking around and learning the basic's then a bridge camera will do just fine, if your wanting to capture thing a long distance away then you'll need to go for an SLR digital or film, so that you can buy a long lens, to bring objects closer.

You can pick up second hand D-SLR's for a couple of hundred pounds now, there's not much that breaks on them unless they have been dropped or heavily used, the most important thing with an SLR of any kind is the lenses, spend as much as you can afford on glass as this can be used again and again when you upgrade your body.

As it's been said the better the lens(glass) the higher quality your pictures will be, so you need to decide what you want to shoot at this point in shopping, it doesn't matter how many MP the camera has, cropping is no substitute for a good long lens if your wanting to shoot things far away. Nor is it a replacement for a macro lens if you want to shoot close-up's.

I gave Rubix the standard lens when he borrowed my camera and at q drift event the long end, 55mm, was too short, so all his action shots had to be cropped to look good but the suffered in actual image quality, the detail shots in the padock, however, had a higher quality as they didn't need cropped.

[Chris250]

Since it's a Nikon you've got at your disposal your best googling to check what the D50 is, pretty sure it's digital but don't know how many megapixel's it is or that. But since it's an SLR you can't go far wrong ;)