Good camera for beginner?

Ryguy920

Ryguy920

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1) What is your budget? How much money can you spend right away, and do you think you can get more money to invest in the future?

uhhhh maybe like 300 at the max..... im a student...

2) What experience do you already have with cameras? Have you ever even used one before? Have you helped your friend out with his camera? Have you owned your own?

i owned a nikon coolpix, thats it.

2) What gear, if any, do you currently have? (tripod, old camera lenses, mics, etc)

old tripod

4) What are you planning to shoot and how do you want to use your camera? Are you going to use this with the sole purpose of shooting skiing? or do you think you might try other stuff as well (movies, documentaries, short films, etc)

skiing photoography, and other stuff too i guess

5) Do you want a camera that you can hand to your friends, that could or could not have film experience, and let them shoot you? or will you be doing all the filming?

maybe but mostly just me

6) When filming skiing, how do you tend to shoot? (follow cams, leave it on record on a tripod and hike, film from a tripod, etc)

ummmm im looking for a photography camera not a video camera

7) What computer do you currently have/use to edit (if not currently editing, what would you most likely use)? If you can provide specifics, such as hard drive space, RAM, processor size, that would be great.

HP pavilion g4 250 Gb hard drive, 4 gigs of RAM, 1.90 Ghz processor...... maybe upgrading to 8 gigs of RAM in the future.

7) What program do you currently edit on? How familiar are you with it (1- just learning; 10- I can make tutorials and know the keyboard layout)

ummmmm not doin videos.

Im just looking for a cheaper but still good camera to start photography on thanks for helping!!!

 
No. "Beginner" implies that he wants to go somewhere with photography. If he buys a shitty P&S he will learn nothing.
OP if you're just looking for a camera to take pictures with, buy a P&S. If you want to take photographs, film is really your only option with your budget. You may be able to find something like a Nikon D40 for $300, but quality will be terrible (I speak from experience as I started on a D40). If you want to get pictures on your computer, scan them from prints or negatives. With a $300 film setup, you can produce extremely high quality images.

inb4 "get a gopro"
 
thats just for the film camera though.

it takes 300 alone to buy some nice film and get it developed haha.

Gonna need a bit more for a reasonably good DSLR that you wont outgrow instantaneously

 
I saw an old Nikon F4 with a 50/1.8 for 225 (I think) at a local camera shop. In its era that was a pro setup. He doesn't really need nice film. A few rolls of B&W and he'll be set for a while. If you hunt around, you can find film that people are just giving away sometimes.
Basically, your options are film, Go Pro, or shitty P&S. If you want better options you need to get more money.
 
Don't buy anything. Save up some more till you can afford something worth spending money one,
 
Personally I'd advise against it. I used one when I first started, and I really didn't like it. You'd be better off saving for something newer.
 
really outdated. i suggest going with film, it'll really help your technique, that's how i learned and i think its worth it. save a lot of that money for film and developing, get a scanner or have them scanned locally. going with nikon seems like a good bet because you cant still use the lenses you have on a digital camera of theirs, they like never change their mount. but if you want to go digital, you need more money.
 
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