Good Photography Cameras For Beginners
What is a good beginner camera for photography under $600?
I’m interested in starting photography, and I want to know what you believe to be the best beginner’s camera. I’m looking at the D80′s but they seem to run about 800. Since I’m not sure I want to pursue this hobby I want to spend about 600 only.
Include lenses, or any other equiptment (I don’t know that much) in the cost. I want to have a camera that does not blur easily.. I am a beginner.
You could look into the D60 or even at minimum the D40…The benifit of the D40 is the live view screen. I personally use the D80 right now, and are already jonesning for the next upgrade.
Lenses are where you will get insane…start with the beginning lenses that come one the D60 or D40 kits…and move up from there. You can almost clean anything up with a quality photo editor. If you are using a slower SLR and are concerned about blur invest in a good lense with an optical stabilizer. Once you get a good lense you can almost certainly use the lense forever as long as you continue to stay with compatable camera bodies.
Oh and invest in a good storeage card (weather it’s SD or other forms)…the faster the card can write info to it the faster you’ll be able to move on to the next shot…I found this to be extremely useful in action shots…
Some shots that I have taken:
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/photo/snowy-face-1?context=user
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/photo/woosh-1?context=user
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/photo/658300:Photo:749190?context=user
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/photo/658300:Photo:643948?context=user
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/photo/658300:Photo:613939?context=user
LEM’s info isn’t entirly correct…the D40, though in basic features as the D80 is “the same” the D80 is faster in apature actuation *shutter speed* and those “moment’s notice” shots are captured without blur…so yes cameras, when slow, do infact blur. Compair a “cool pix” to a professional camera and you will see a shocking difference on the same shot. Also, the more expensive the camera is the “cleaner” because the ISO range…the ISO is higher in all lighting expensive vs. cheap camera…there is a HUGE difference between my friends D3 that operates (indoors under average lighting) at 3200 ISO vs my D80 that operates in the same conditions at 120 ISO…also his camera is a 12.3mp vs my 10mp…he can blow his shots up to poster size or greater without any risk of compromising the shot.
The D60 was rumored to have Live View, having never used a lesser camera sorry didn’t know. Sorry. The D90 then in fact is the cheapest Nikon SLR with Live View..However I find Live View more incumbersome than traditional view finder.
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