Spend my £500.

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Your probably sick to death of newbies coming on here asking what dslr to buy, so here's a different approach.

Take £500 (virtual quid) and buy some kit. You'll need to buy a half decent body (any make) and at least one lens. Smaller bodies appreciated, but not critical. Only requirements is that the camera should have some sort of remote/cable shutter release, and have a bulb setting.

Max budget £500 but don't feel you need to blow it all.

:)

What you buying?
 
Well, my first question would be, what do you want it for? Wildlife, portrait, general use, sports, etc? You catch my drift.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Well, my first question would be, what do you want it for? Wildlife, portrait, general use, sports, etc? You catch my drift.
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Arty type shots and travel, so light, small as possible and tough. Micro four thirds would be good, but Im not sure about them (that's another thread).

:)
 
You'd have much more fun if you blew the 500 quid on Coke (Coke is it!) and ladies of dubious virtue (who are known for a liking of a nice glass of Coca-Cola)

:D
 
This was my budget when I purchased my camera.

I came home with the Sony A300, I was caught up between the Nikon vs Canon arguement between friends so thought I'd go straight down the middle to Sony.

I must say that I have no regrets. I am more than happy with it.

I went to Jessops in the Trafford Centre with an idea of what I wanted and I had the £500 cash in my pocket. I had a look round then went over to the assistant and explained that I had £500 in my pocket and wanted a setup of camera with kit lens, an additional lens and bag etc etc.

I came home with:

Sony A300 with 18-70mm kit lens
55-200mm f/4 - f/5.6
A nice little bag to fit it all in.
4GB CF Card

It came to £540 so they did me a deal and I walked away a happy man.

Depending on what you plan to shoot, looking back now I would replace the 55-200 for a 50mm f/1.8. It's a little bit cheaper than the 55-200mm too. No photographers bag is complete without a nifty.
 
desantnik said:
You'd have much more fun if you blew the 500 quid on Coke (Coke is it!) and ladies of dubious virtue (who are known for a liking of a nice glass of Coca-Cola)
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Which reminds me of something a friend says about money:

"I would spend half of it on beer and women... and waste the rest".


(p.s. My links work for me).



Steve.
 
Steve's links work for me too.
I would suggest a very similar idea to his but would point towards MIFSUDS as well.

As for what kit I would be looking at while there, I would go for D70 (£199), 18-70 (£179)70-300G (£79). You might even be able to persuade them to chuck in an ML-L3 remote but they're not too expensive anyway (£19.99, new {cheaper from Warehouse Express})
 
Jaffster said:
This was my budget when I purchased my camera.

I came home with the Sony A300, I was caught up between the Nikon vs Canon arguement between friends so thought I'd go straight down the middle to Sony.

I must say that I have no regrets. I am more than happy with it.

I went to Jessops in the Trafford Centre with an idea of what I wanted and I had the £500 cash in my pocket. I had a look round then went over to the assistant and explained that I had £500 in my pocket and wanted a setup of camera with kit lens, an additional lens and bag etc etc.

I came home with:

Sony A300 with 18-70mm kit lens
55-200mm f/4 - f/5.6
A nice little bag to fit it all in.
4GB CF Card

It came to £540 so they did me a deal and I walked away a happy man.

Depending on what you plan to shoot, looking back now I would replace the 55-200 for a 50mm f/1.8. It's a little bit cheaper than the 55-200mm too. No photographers bag is complete without a nifty.
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got to agree on the sony a300 as a great starter as a dslr. 10mega pixels, inbuilt image stabilisation with the added bonus of live view

tempted to sell mine for a nikon d90 though (still umming and argning over it),
but someone could have a sony a300 and sony 18-200 for 500 notes from me ;-)
 
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