Recommend me a camera?
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aviation_man
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What kind of shooting are you interested in? Do you just want to point and shoot, or do you want to get into photography?
El DJ
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I don't really have a particular brand in mind, I've hear great things about most brands of cameras. No, I was planning on asking my mom for it as a birthday present (my birthday's next month). She said she could do $300, I don't know about $400. If I found a reasonably better camera for $400 than one for $300, I think she'd get it instead.
Laquer Head
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I'm a hardcore Canon SLR shooter..but
for your price range I recommend a Pentax x70!
It's a slick point and shoot with excellent 24x zoom, 12mp, 100-6400iso, 720 video, 2.7" lcd and a host of advanced features--it should be around the price you mentioned!!
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Laquer Head
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Laquer Head
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Cool man, its a nice camera but several years old now, however, it's probably priced okay,
aviation_man
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Have you looked into the Nikon D40x and D60's on Newegg? Those are in the 350-450 price range. I'm thinking about getting the D40x myself.
El DJ
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Yeah, I can get one for $300 on Amazon.
Aviation:
No I haven't, but $300 is as high as I can go :[
aviation_man
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Meh. Ok. Have you tried Craigslist to look for a good used one? They seem to be in your price range and a little lower.
El DJ
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I tried craigslist, but nothing really came up. I'll look some more though.
Once you start looking at dslr's the prices begin to skyrocket. One of the main benefits of dslr over a p&s is its ability to blur the background and change lenses.
Any decent dslr should beat a high end p&s in creating a cleaner picture at high iso. If you only plan on shooting in good bright sushine at iso 100 then every camera will look the same (generally speaking). But when you start taking pictures indoors even during the daytime you will need to up the iso and that brings noise. The more expensive cameras will handle the noise better than the cheaper cameras. Unfortunately i am more familiar with dslr's than p&s and it will be very difficult to get a dslr in the 300 dollar range, and then you still need to buy a lense and a nemory card.
I would also throw a used canon g9 into the compare list.
Any decent dslr should beat a high end p&s in creating a cleaner picture at high iso. If you only plan on shooting in good bright sushine at iso 100 then every camera will look the same (generally speaking). But when you start taking pictures indoors even during the daytime you will need to up the iso and that brings noise. The more expensive cameras will handle the noise better than the cheaper cameras. Unfortunately i am more familiar with dslr's than p&s and it will be very difficult to get a dslr in the 300 dollar range, and then you still need to buy a lense and a nemory card.
I would also throw a used canon g9 into the compare list.
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El DJ
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Is the only difference between the K100D and the K110D the image stability? Those are some REALLY nice pictures.
Elitejp: a little bit outta my price range. :[
realmike15
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if you really plan on getting into more then just point and shot, a DSLR is well worth the investment. i have the canon rebel xs, which is a very nice low end DSLR. canon generally has a more detailed image than any of the other makers. when you start to get into photography, you want to set your f/stops, shutter, iso, focusing and everything else manually. doing this on anything other than a a true DSLR is usually a pain in the butt. some of the hybrids are not bad but i doubt you'll get anything for $300, at least not a new one. my friend has a $400 hybrid style that is fairly nice... but his manual focus is annoying to deal with.
if you can, i would ask for a gift card to amazon, and save up for the rest yourself. on the other hand, if your really not sure whether you're going to get into this... maybe you should stick with a point and shoot style. good luck in your search.