Timeline for What is a good starter camera considering price and value
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| Jun 5, 2011 at 15:07 | comment | added | rfusca | @Nir - I'm not saying you should spend months - just more than nothing. | |
| Jun 5, 2011 at 9:02 | comment | added | Nir | @rfusca - you can spend many months learning about the different brands (and cameras in each brand!), the strength and weaknesses of each one, the lens availability and compatibility and finally make an educated choice - or - you can buy the first DSLR you see, spend the time taking pictures and take the risk that sometime in the future you will run into a problem. Now, since there is a very good market for used photography gear (so you can at least recover some of your expenses) but there's no way to get back the months you wasted on research I still believe my advice is good. | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 1:27 | comment | added | rfusca | As somebody looking at brand switching, I'm not sure i agree with @Nir 's advice in anything but a very basic sense. All camera's may make good pics right now, but you're buying into a whole system ...and you need to be aware of those implications. For example, buying an entry level Nikon greatly reduces your effective lenses choices in the used market - which has the potential to get you better glass to play with if you're budget constrained. But if you just go pick one, you may not know that. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | mattdm | It's far from the worst advice, in that one won't go wrong if one takes your advice in general — pretty much everything is good these days, and the differences are advanced (or at least intermediate) details. If we're gonna do camera recommendations, though, I'd like to see Photo-SE as an idyllic place free of arbitrary restriction of options, with no brand wars, cats and dogs living together, lions and lambs sharing a drink at the local bar, etc. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 21:34 | comment | added | Nir | @mattdm - You are right, I've edited my answer to include the other brands. BTW, "stick to only Canon and Nikon" while it does leave out many great choice - and maybe even leaves out the "best" choice - is not the worst advice you can give someone. I have a tendency to go with smaller players that fit my needs better and I often regret that choice in the long run | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 21:25 | comment | added | mattdm | I know. I'm just concerned that many beginners will only see the "stick to only Canon and Nikon" part, and not get the qualifier. That's doing people a disservice. Those companies make great cameras, and there is a wider selection of accessories, but the fact is that a huge number of people will never exhaust what's available for Pentax or Sony or whatever. And there are lenses and accessories in those systems which the others don't have. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 21:22 | history | edited | Nir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2011 at 21:20 | comment | added | Nir | @mattdm - My brother has a Pentax and it's an amazing camera and the reason I got a DSLR myself. the point I was trying to make is that 1. Canon and Nikon have more lens and accessories than the other brands and 2. Every 3rd party lens or accessory has Canon and Nikon compatible versions - there's nowhere near that amount of support for Pentax, Sony, Panasonic or anyone else. I didn't list the other brands because I didn't want to forget anyone. | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 11:16 | comment | added | mattdm | +1. But see photo.stackexchange.com/questions/9355/… on the lenses. Pentax in particular makes some great affordable and powerful entry-level SLRs and it'd be a mistake to discount them simply because of a perception of Canon/Nikon lens availability. And while I like Pentax, I don't mean to be brand-partisan here. Many new users will be very happy picking another smaller brand like Sony or Panasonic/Olympus as well. Or Canon/Nikon, for that matter. :) | |
| Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 | history | answered | Nir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |