Looking to upgrade

[TobyCRISIS]

I'm looking to go SLR for my new camera when I next get paid and was wondering whats the BEST SLR for around £300?

My current camera is the beautiful Samsung SNV3 which I have actually taken some pretty nice shots with, but I feel the need for bigger and better! :rolleyes:

Cheers dudes. :cool:

[marsey99]

digi ?

lot of people like the sony a200 range from what i have seen m8y.

[DoubleTop]

my personal advice, as I know nothing is to ask people that do :D

http://www.digi-darkroom.com/

DT.

[northturton]

It depends how far you want to take SLR photography.

There are two obvious "front runners" in Canon and Nikon who supply a vast range of glass, flash guns etc, and there's other makes for the "hobbiests" who will likely stick to one or two lenses.

I don't know what the quality of Lumix or Sony (ex Minolta) are like, but don't forget other old makes such as Olympus (two work colleagues have this brand), Pentax and Practika.

[da1e]

from my reading when I bought mine, sony and cannon are worse value for money, for virtually the same price you could get the obvious leader which is the Nikon range. For about £300 id suggest the d40x if you wanted to go Nikon.
If you aren't as fussed about having the nikon branded, olympus is a cheaper alternative. I got the Olympus E-410 last year with 2 lenses for £300, whereas if i went for the nikon id have been paying about £350 for just 1 lens. I can't personally tell the difference in image quality, but then again i dont blow my images up or anything like that. What I will say is that it also has some other cool features that the nikon doesnt, for example live viewer, you can see what you are taking a picture of through the LCD screen which you cant sing nikons, or at least the earlier models. Its also a lot smaller and compact than the nikons, which some people hate, but i personally think it works best for me, as it means you arent really gonna get tired of holding it as fast.

I hope this helped, if just a little. Its always a good idea to watch reviews, then you get an idea of how easy it is to use and how big it is etc, there are quite a few on youtube.

Happy shopping :)

[Perkins1985]

You will only be able to get one second hand i have the Nikon D40. I love the camera and it will easily come within your budget

[da1e]

the thing is, everyone with a nikon will say they are happy with their camera, simply because it is a nikon, the best thing to do, as i say, is read reviews and actually check the market out. However I wouldnt recommend a 6mp camera or whatever the d40 is simply because it virtually eliminates possibility of clearly blowing up high quality images to large sizes.

[Koolpc]

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