Upgrading camera?
Apr 21, 2013 10:55:15 #
I have a Nikon D80. I would like to upgrade to something I can grow with as an amateur photographer . I am not interested in video. I also don't have $3-5000 to spend. I understand that size of sensor is important. Any suggestions?
Apr 21, 2013 11:06:58 #
Impossible with out knowing what you want to shoot as FF sensors and cropped are different all together
Apr 21, 2013 11:14:13 #
Check out a d700,it's full frame and has all the bells and whistles.
Check out craigs list or the Nikon refurb.dept.
Check out craigs list or the Nikon refurb.dept.
Apr 21, 2013 11:19:13 #
A camera for portrait will be different for sports and so on, what do you want to shoot
Apr 21, 2013 11:21:01 #
romanticf16
Loc: Commerce Twp, MI
A used D300 with a low shutter count would be a very durable and sturdy camera for DX use- somewhere in the $500 range for a body. Don't get too hung up on the megapixel wars- a 12MP RAW image from a D300 can be taken into Photoshop and expanded 10% at a time to whatever size you need. 30"x40" enlargements are not out of the question. Spend your money on high end lenses.I'd invest in the f2.8 Nikor zooms; 24-70; 70-200 plus the 12-24 f4DX for wide coverage, then a 50mmf1.8.
Apr 21, 2013 18:02:06 #
Apr 21, 2013 18:08:51 #
Thanks, good info. I currently have a AF-S Nikkor 70-300 1:4.5 - 5.6 G and Tamron 17-35mm 2.8 -4 XR Di LD IF. I believe the Nikkor is a good quality lens, but questioning the Tamron?
Apr 21, 2013 18:10:09 #
Apr 21, 2013 19:53:27 #
I'm getting on a soap box. The first thing you want to do is decide just what you want to do that you can't do with your D80. You didn't say you wanted to do a lot of low light work where the D80 would not do as well as a newer body. Do you need to make big enlargements. The D80 will do 16X20 with no trouble. Of course if you do Weddings you will need a back up. Go for whatever and use your D80 as the backup. As for the FF the pros are if you want enlargements bigger than 20X24 you will get better prints. The cons are everything costs more. Another pro you can impress some folks with the super camera around your neck. - Dave
Apr 21, 2013 20:06:07 #
Fuji XE-1 with XF 18-55mm lens. (27-83mm 35 equiv.)
APS-C sensor that rivals FF.
Small and light, great IQ, few but beautiful lenses. Well built.
Something to grow with as it grows and the X-series certainly is.
Check out;
http://www.scoop.it/t/fuji-x-pro1
APS-C sensor that rivals FF.
Small and light, great IQ, few but beautiful lenses. Well built.
Something to grow with as it grows and the X-series certainly is.
Check out;
http://www.scoop.it/t/fuji-x-pro1
Apr 21, 2013 20:32:56 #
Apr 21, 2013 21:13:11 #
HEALS3113 wrote:
Low light has definitely been a problem, thanks for your insight.
Low light?
For a crop-sensor camera, the D7000 has almost the same image quality as the older, full-frame D700 at high ISO. The D300 isn't even playing the same game in that realm, but it's a great camera in good light.
As mentioned before, better lenses make a big difference, but they will cost you. The best Nikon DX-only zoom is the 17-55 2.8. It's a very useful pro-level lens made when Nikon wasn't yet offering a full frame body.
One thing you get with full-frame over crop-sensor bodies is less depth of field at the same apertures using equivalent focal length lenses. Great for selective focus images like portraits.
Apr 22, 2013 05:39:30 #
Apr 22, 2013 05:58:40 #
Go full frame D600, D800 or D800e. enjoy. as an example read the review on the D600 and look at the image quality at the high ISO ranges. you'll be impressed. if not full frame go D7000.
Apr 22, 2013 06:06:14 #
romanticf16 wrote:
A used D300 with a low shutter count would be a very durable and sturdy camera for DX use- somewhere in the $500 range for a body. Don't get too hung up on the megapixel wars- a 12MP RAW image from a D300 can be taken into Photoshop and expanded 10% at a time to whatever size you need. 30"x40" enlargements are not out of the question. Spend your money on high end lenses.I'd invest in the f2.8 Nikor zooms; 24-70; 70-200 plus the 12-24 f4DX for wide coverage, then a 50mmf1.8.
Didn't you read the request? "I also don't have $3-5000 to spend." Why do you say to invest in the f2.8 Nikor zooms; 24-70; 70-200 plus the 12-24 f 4DX for wide coverage, then a 50mm f1.8? You are talking $6,000 just there! Strange.....
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