What’s a good Digital SLR camera? Can anyone recommend one?
I’m looking to invest in a Digital SLR camera. I’ve been looking at the Fuji Finepix series, particularly the S5600 and S7000 models. Also the Canon 300D.
Is there anything good/bad about these cameras?
What features should I look for?
What accessories are a must have?
Well for starters the 300D has been dis-continued, if you mean the 30D then thats an excellent camera and will serve you well as you become more proficient with your photography.
If your new to D SLR’s then lets start off by busting a big myth, resolution – yes generally the more pixels an image has the better it will be – but and like J-Lo its a rather big but its not the be all and end all of image quality, a 6.3MP camera with an L series lens (assuming you go canon) will produce a better picture than a 10MP camera with a cheapo lens (Sigma etc – ugh).
If you go into a store and ask about resolution they will simply tell you to go for the highest available/ waht you want to spend – which as far as i know (and believe me anyone that tells you they know everything about photography is full of it) is the Mamiya ZD at 22MP but comes with an £8000 price tag.
Like a lot of things D SLR photography is one of those things where you can do it at reasonable cost but to do it really well requires very deep pockets and its possible to waste an awful lot of money on the wrong items. Speaking personally im deeply into wildlife photography and when i first bought the 300D (3 years ago) i bought a 90-300mm canon lens to go with it for £240, this wasnt giving me enough reach so i bought a Sigma F8 600mm mirror lens at £349 which i thought was a bargain because it was cheap but turned out to be a big pile of crap, eventually i did some research and bought a Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM lens which is fabulous quality but cost £1089 so i ended up wasting £589 on 2 lenses that werent really what i needed. Now dont get me wrong £1089 is a shedload of money to spend on a lens – but if i had bought it originally i wouldn’t have wasted the other £589.
Be very carefull before you take the plunge and buy anything, the wrong decisions can cost you a lot.
You ask about accessories, thats a toughie because you dont really say what your going to be shooting, but a flashgun is always handy, most DSLRs have a built in one but they can be limiting so a separate one is usefull. A decent quality tripod can help if you are using larger lenses, but again dont skimp and buy a cheap one it’ll be thin and not that supportive, quick rule of thumb for tripods, if you bend the legs easily when they are fully extended then its not strong enough, try a better one. One bit of good news (ie not something that costs a fortune) is look for a rocket air, which looks like a rocket (funnily enough) they are cheap and are brilliant at quickly removing dust from a lens without having to use those wipes which always seem to leave a smear unless of course you buy eclipse fluid and pec pads – say goodbye to £20 for those!
One other thing to consider is storage, always buy the biggest memory card you can afford, and unless you are using a camera with a huge pixel count dont waste money on the latest ultra 133x cards, yes they are faster but unless you have a camera that fires like a machine gun or has a gazillion pixels you just dont need them, 7dayshop.com sell a 2Gb compact flash card for £18.99, they will work fine in everything but the highest end cameras – again dont let some fool in a store thats trying to extract money from you tell you any different.
Best advice really would be to find a camera club near you and go and talk to the people there, you will get a wide range of opinions and its always fun listening to a Canon head (like me) or a Nikon head (like my wife) go head to head and argue which is best. Truth is there is really very little in it, the Nikons ‘feel’ better and are excellent but Canon heads will argue that their lenses are better – but going back to money again yes they are if you buy L series lenses, but boy do you pay for it.
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