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killer_twinkie

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Looking for a good deal on a Digital SLR w/ lens. I have a SLR-like point and shoot and am needing to upgrade to a SLR for the best price possible.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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I have a Sony Alpha A200. It is an excellent "beginner" DSLR and takes fantastic pictures. I think you can find it for $400-$500 which (to me) is a decent price on a nice DSLR. What price range are you looking for? DSLRs don't really have "good" prices....just good prices for a DSLR
 
The cheapest DSLR with Lens Kit you're likely to find is the Nikon D60........the next step up however is the Canon Rebel, and its got better performance at higher ISO's. EG: ISO 1600 on the Rebel trumps the D60.
 
i love my canon XTi. You can get the newer XSi with live view and IS kit lens for less than $600 now! my xti was $900 2 years ago. i'd go with either camera, mine takes amazing photos and is really easy to use.
 
stevesdigicams.com is my go to site for purchasing cameras. I've bought maybe 6 over the last 4 years (for various people, recommended) Look for their buyer's guide. To read the reviews, there's a hell of a lot you have to know. But, if you're into photography enough to buy a dSLR, you should probably know most of that stuff.

Nikon and Canon are gonna be the 2 most popular (and probably best quality) dSLR brands out there.

I bought me a Nikon just because I like the way they look better than the Canon's. They're both good makers, so I didn't care. I just bought the one in the price range that I liked the way it looked.

I remember when I was first buying this stuff, it took me awhile to notice you don't have to buy the lens kit with the camera. You can just find the cameras bare. If you don't need the lens kit, you can save good money there.
 
[quote name='Malik112099']I have a Sony Alpha A200. It is an excellent "beginner" DSLR and takes fantastic pictures. I think you can find it for $400-$500 which (to me) is a decent price on a nice DSLR. What price range are you looking for? DSLRs don't really have "good" prices....just good prices for a DSLR[/QUOTE]

I miss the dial at the top the A100 had, wish I hadn't upgraded just for that reason. Anyway OP I highly suggest looking into the Sony Alpha line, the entire Minolta Maxxum line of lenses and certain flashes work with them making it a must if you want to grab some gear cheaper then the retail level.
 
i like my sony a300 because it's one of the few cameras with dual sensors becuase of this you can use the LCD to take live shots... or the view finder without the problems that are usually created by this and w/o the usual delay this is possible because of the dual sensors... 10.1 my daughter was going down a slide at the park the other day in terrible light conditions, not only did the camera take but it mannaged to take 5 shots in the time it took her to get down the slide, i was pretty impressed with that (and this was using the lcd).

i payed 700 for mine with the regular lens and seperate zoom lens to 300 and 2 high speed 2 gig cards and a nice bag (the bag was like 70 bucks of that price).

But my circuit city has the exact same camera w/ the basic lens for 410 rt now and they still had some left a couple of days ago.

also of note is that the lcd tilts so if you want to take pics at your waste you just tilt the lcd out. sony bought minolta and that is when they started making DSLRs
 
Curious Auralia did you use the previous models of the Alpha before getting the 300? A complaint I read was that the viewfinder in the 300 was inferior to the 100 and 200 so for those that didn't like the live view it was an issue.
 
Why the hell would you name a technology product "Alpha"? I saw those on Sony's web site and didn't know that was a name. I thought they meant those cameras were still in the testing phase.

[quote name='HeadRusch']I like Steve's site, but also check out www.dpreview.com[/quote]

Yeah, if you want to spend a lot of time looking for a camera, lurking the the dpreview.com forums and asking a few questions is a great idea. But, I've done that enough, I've just grown to trust Steve's site. There are a lot out there. But, that's the one I personally trust the content of more than the others - even though his web design is fugly.

So now, when someone asks me what camera to get, I just ask them a few questions about what they are looking for and head over to Steve's site and figure out which one in like an hour instead of looking everywhere.

No idea if there's background knowledge you have to have like I do to be able to use that site that efficiently. I haven't paid that much attention trying to figure out.
 
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