Hello there! Help?! What to buy??

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Hi all,

New to the forum and from the south east of England(10 miles from Brighton). I have never owned a proper camera before. The closest thing I've got to photography is playing around with my camera phone!!
I have been wanting to get into photography for a while after seeing a lot of great photos online. Over the last few weeks I have been doing some reading up on the net and decided on the Nikon d3100 with 18-55 lens.
I went to my local camera shop today to have a look at it in the flesh and have a chat with someone who knows more than me.
Now I am torn!! The man in the shop agreed that this is an excellent starter camera but he showed me the panasonic dmc-fz150. Now I know that this is not a dslr but he said for what I will use it for (mainly point and shoot, pictures of friends and random objects) that I would not notice much picture quality difference between the two. Also for a beginner the fixed lens offers a much greater range without having to buy/carry multiple lenses.
This is purely a bit of fun for me and my girlfriend to play around with in our spare time so I was kind of swayed more towards the Panasonic now due to its ease of use and simplicity.

I look forward to hearing your opinions

Cheers

Nick
 
From reading some reviews on the FZ150 it would appear to be a cracking bridge camera. (See DP Review)

To be honest you have answered your own question and this would seem the obvious path for you.
 
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The Panasonic will be great for you to use now, and later on if you find that it limits what you want to do, you could progress to a DSLR.

It will teach you a lot about settings or you can just use auto until you learn more.


Heather
 
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Yeah, I think I had made up my mind whilst writing my post. I think it will be good to play around with and find my feet a little bit. Once I get used to all the buttons, features and settings I can then look to moving on to the more specialised/advanced cameras out there. Thanks for your help
 
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Yeah, I think I had made up my mind whilst writing my post. I think it will be good to play around with and find my feet a little bit. Once I get used to all the buttons, features and settings I can then look to moving on to the more specialised/advanced cameras out there. Thanks for your help
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You are welcome.

Stick around and there is loads of helpful advice on the forum from basics to advanced. There is no such thing as a stupid question!

Just out of interest which shop did you go to?


Heather
 
Yeah I will do. I'm sure I will be using the forum a lot to get advice and tips.
It was park cameras in Burgess Hill
 
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Yeah I will do. I'm sure I will be using the forum a lot to get advice and tips.
It was park cameras in Burgess Hill
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Good choice with Park Cameras, have had several dealings with the both face to face and via phone and web and been very happy with them.


Heather
 
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