photography question

[briggie]

sheila has said i can have a new camera for my birthday ( monday ) , id love a new dslr , but her budget is £150 , so its not really a option , my question is , ive seen a nice nikon bridge camera ..... whats the difference ? and picture quality /features as oposed to the nikon d series ?


thanking you in advance

pete

 

[clivvy]

no idea about the bridge. u wont get a good dslr for £150 but you can get a very godo point and shoot for that,

try this site, i like them a lot

http://www.trustedreviews.com/filte...lter=0&manufacturer=0&submit.x=22&submit.y=15

 

[briggie]

ive been looking at the nikon L110 bridge camera , but the cheapest i can find is £170, is it any good ? reviews seem very good :nenau

 

[Terranical]

I've got a Nikon D60 DSLR which cost around £300 when new a couple of years ago - a cracking camera, and I would have thought obtainable used for around your maximum budget, try a look on eBay - some photographers are notorious for wanting more and better features, so good s/h cameras come up all the time - in fact this Nikon, which the wife bought me for Christmas, is the only camera we have bought new for many years, both of our pocket cameras, and those of our grandchildren bought last year, have been used ones bought from eBay. The way I look at it, by buying used you get a better camera than if you spent the same sort of money on a new one.

 

[patbhoy]

Here are a few ending on fleaby soon.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-Alpha-DSLR-A200K-10-2-Megapixel-Digital-Camera-/170550364868?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sony-DSLR-A10...Cameras_DigitalCameras_JN&hash=item27b5b3a95c

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/sony-a200-DSL...Cameras_DigitalCameras_JN&hash=item255e21c09e

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Sony-Alph...Cameras_DigitalCameras_JN&hash=item3a5f691cfc

 

[kbekl]

personally with that sort of cash i would look at the fuji finepix s series i have an old s5700 and is a great camera, i use it for all my fish photo's always given good colour and is easy to use

 

[R1cho]

http://photography.shop.ebay.co.uk/...rRngCbx=1&_sc=1&_sop=16&_trksid=p3286.c0.m301

 

[R1cho]

cheap dslr here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Olympus-Camed...Cameras_DigitalCameras_JN&hash=item415349db55

 

[iceman]

i was in the same situation, i eventually bought the pentax k-x with 2 lenses,

first thing i done was gather all my old camera's and anything else i did not want and sold them on fleabay which increased my budget and now own a dslr.

i owned 2 fuji camera's in my time and i thought they were great bridge camera's until i took a photo with the dslr and realized i wasted so many years taken average photo's.

if you are still on a tight budget a friend had a Panasonic Lumix camera and was impressed as a bridge camera.

 

[larson]

save your money you will only take pictures of cb's and sally

 

[briggie]

i allready have a old zenith 35mm slr camera , and a pentax af super (35mm ) , and a ricoh caplio rr30, but ive always wanted to upgrade but could never afford it , i love to take landscape shots

 

[R1cho]

As a photographer i have to say not all shots taken with a bridge camera are bad, they just aren't very good for fast moving shots as you always have a slight delay. The best bridge camera I have come across is one i actually own its the olympus sp560uz and i used it to take the pic attatched, maybe i am biased though as all my equipment is olympus even down the the lenses i use lol however saying this, you still cant beat a good dslr, i highly recommend the olympus e420 as a beginners dslr as they are easy to understand and use and if you can find one of these in your budget range snap it up they are well worth the money and extremely hard wearing, i still have my e420 and use it when `out n about` in the car.

 

[Deleted account DD]

i allready have a old zenith 35mm slr camera , and a pentax af super (35mm ) , and a ricoh caplio rr30, but ive always wanted to upgrade but could never afford it , i love to take landscape shots

I know the feeling, ive got a Pentax spotmatic, a canon A1 , a canon Ae1 a motor drive and an assortment of lenses..................

35mm


just cant bear to part with them.

 

[11redrex]

Damn, thought it said pornography.:nenau

 

[R1cho]

Damn, thought it said pornography.:nenau

:jesterbg

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

got a fuji fine pix s8000fd, think, paid about 150 for it 2 years ago

like mini dslr, got an 18x optical zoom, yes 18x which i though
was amazing at time still do. sometimes use camera like a pair
of binoculars!

 

[larson]

Damn, thought it said pornography.:nenau

that would be in the adult section

 

[briggie]

ive seen one of these new , and my darling beloved says i can have it for my birthday ...... it looks ok , but is it any good ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fuji-FinePix-...Cameras_DigitalCameras_JN&hash=item4aa55bccea

 

[Terranical]

I've had a couple of Fuji cameras and always found them very good. No interchangeable lenses on this one, but with a 18x optical zoom you would probably never need another lens. Uses SD or microSD cards which are pretty well the industry standard now (earlier Fujis used xD cards which were (and still are) very expensive). If it were me I would go for it - I'm sure you will love it (if you still have any reservations, Google the model number and find some reviews, see what other users think of it).

 

[briggie]

I've had a couple of Fuji cameras and always found them very good. No interchangeable lenses on this one, but with a 18x optical zoom you would probably never need another lens. Uses SD or microSD cards which are pretty well the industry standard now (earlier Fujis used xD cards which were (and still are) very expensive). If it were me I would go for it - I'm sure you will love it (if you still have any reservations, Google the model number and find some reviews, see what other users think of it).

http://www.cameras.co.uk/reviews/fuji-finepix-s2500hd.cfm