D5000 or Sony A580 or something else??

photo_solo said:
sorry about this but have decided against getting the A65 (for now).

Have been presented with an offer for a Canon 450D for £200. Is this a good price? It's just the body so would need to source a decent lens. I'm initially looking to do family photos and maybe some macro (close up?) stuff.. and that's it. Don't mind paying up to £300 for a lens that can do it all? obviously the cheaper the better :P

Good camera for the money? (i'm considering Canon only because of the good things i hear about the 5d mk2... my target if a) i really get into photography and b) when i save enough for it :P)

Thoughts most welcome, thanks!!! :)
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any reasonably modern DSLR will do what you want. You won't find a do it all lens for any amount of money let alone £300 though.

by the time that you can afford a 5D MkII & good lenses for it it will be obsolete.
& the 5D MkII doesn't have great AF if that's important to you.
 
Good place to look for best new prices is camerapricebuster.

I'd definitely go and handle them all and see what you prefer. A camera you don't use much is the most expensive of all...
 
iced_jacob said:
You haven't really started taking pictures and you are already thinking about a lens you could use on a 5d2? £300 is not enough for a lens to do 5d2 justice...triple that and maybe ;)

for now...set a budget. go to a store and handle all the options. pick the one that feels best in your hands. buy it. enjoy using it.

after a few months you will know what focal lengths, shooting conditions etc you usually end up in and you can plan your future spending much better :)
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i know lenses can be expensive but really that expensive?!! :gag:
Good advice there, my spidey sense tells me i should follow it :p thanks :)

iced_jacob said:
Also: if you don't want to lose any money buy second hand kit, look after it and you can resell it at almost the same price. So you don't really need to worry about switching systems
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good strategy there, one i was planning on doing.. i'll probably lose a bit but i agree with your point, it'll be the most cost effective way for me, thanks :)

heidfirst said:
any reasonably modern DSLR will do what you want. You won't find a do it all lens for any amount of money let alone £300 though.

by the time that you can afford a 5D MkII & good lenses for it it will be obsolete.
& the 5D MkII doesn't have great AF if that's important to you.
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haha... true :P I'm a poor saver as well :P Didn't know that about the 5dmkII... guess there's no such thing as the perfect camera then? :P

srichards said:
Good place to look for best new prices is camerapricebuster.

I'd definitely go and handle them all and see what you prefer. A camera you don't use much is the most expensive of all...
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never heard of them.. will google and take a gander, thanks :)
 
photo_solo said:
I guess there's no such thing as the perfect camera then? :P
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there really isn't & different things are important to different people hence why they use different cameras.
What you have to do is work out what is important to you & find the camera that closest matches your needs.
 
doing family photos (a la studio style (ish)) is very important to me.

would a second hand D70 or sony a230 do the trick? £200 seems to be the going rate? (with kit lens i think)
 
low iSO plus flash or studio lights?
They should do imo.

The D70 (2004) is a higher level body but using an older 6Mp Sony CCD sensor versus the A230 (2009) which is a simpler body but with a newer 10Mp Sony CCD sensor.
The A230 is physically a small body, possibly too small for some - you might want to look for an A200 instead as it's a bit bigger & it's not as simplified as the A230.
 
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If you're really determined to go into portrait studio style, and trust me lighting equipment isn't cheap, then stick with Nikon. Their CLS flash system is probably the best there is. (hides from hordes of affronted Canon owners)
 
A friend brought his D90 in for me today... gotta say it's a very nice piece of machinery to hold :)

So instead of going for the oldish camer for around £200.. i might just spend around £500 for one of these... thoughts anyone? Also any thoughts on this lens (not sure if all the reviews are from legit individuals or paid by companies!):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikon-50mm-...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1322651319&sr=1-1
 
it's quite a bit more (second hand that is)... does look and sound better than the D90 but for the money i spend on the body, i can get the d90 with that lens i mentioned in my last post... any thoughts? (and thoughts about that lens?)

thanks :)
 
Myrdhinn said:
If you're really determined to go into portrait studio style, and trust me lighting equipment isn't cheap, then stick with Nikon. Their CLS flash system is probably the best there is. (hides from hordes of affronted Canon owners)
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All sonys have built-in remote optical flash triggering with TTL and HSS, provided you use Sony guns. On higher end bodies, you also get ratio control, if you use a higher end sony flash as controller.

The Nikon system is very good, but it's not the only game in town.
 
it's widely recognised that CLS is the best albeit other systems are workable.
I think that Sony's system may be a tad better than Canon's.
 
Right, have taken your advice and stuck with Nikon :) The D7000 to be exact :P It's probably overkill for me but i'm determined to learn learn learn! :)

I just need maybe a couple of lenses... want one for lovely portraits and then one for general stuff like, skies, horizons, buildings, nature.. etc

what was that prime you mentioned scot? 50 f1.8d ? linky? thanks.


Any thoughts on this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikon-55-200MM-4-5-6-VR-Black/dp/B000O161X0
 
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