Nowadays in the field of photography, film is on its way out, and soon will be used only by some professional photographers who like the look and feel of film. The rest of us are buying digital cameras, and there is a bewildering variety to choose from. They range from very inexpensive “point-and-shoot” models which are light and very easy to use but allow you little or no creative control and produce photos that don’t look good when enlarged, to very expensive “DSLR” cameras costing $4000 or more. These can be very heavy, have a huge selection of settings many of which even very skilled pros will almost never use, and produce photos that can be blown up to poster size and still look great. So what should you choose? For the great majority of photographers, an excellent choice would be the Nikon D90.
The Nikon D90 allows you a great deal of creative control and produces images you can make big enlargements of like the most expensive and heavy cameras. However, it is reasonably light, it only costs about a thousand with a zoom lens, and, for those of you who don’t want to worry about any settings, in fully automatic mode it is almost as easy to use as a point-and-shoot. You can start using it this way, and you have a great deal of room to grow before you would start to feel a need for even more features. This camera is good enough that pros have no problem using it for shooting weddings.
All of these admirable qualities are present in a number of other cameras that cost about the same about, such as Canon’s Rebel 300D, but the D90 is the best of these. Nikon optics are the best, the number of lenses available is massive, and then there is the HD video option!
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