Looking for first DSLR or mirrorless camera: Currently looking at the Canon T7i with 18-55 lens and adding 55-250 lens to purchase package for total of $788.00. This will be my first...

dmgallmon

Currently looking at the Canon T7i with 18-55 lens and adding 55-250 lens to purchase package for total of $788.00. This will be my first DSLR camera, is it better to invest in that camera or go with a mirrorless. If mirrorless, what is a good one in that price range?? Thanks in advance for all responses and for helping out a newbie.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

dmgallmon wrote:

Currently looking at the Canon T7i with 18-55 lens and adding 55-250 lens to purchase package for total of $788.00. This will be my first DSLR camera, is it better to invest in that camera or go with a mirrorless. If mirrorless, what is a good one in that price range?? Thanks in advance for all responses and for helping out a newbie.

Probably the Sony a6000 for less money. It is a crop sensor just like the Canon T7i. The T7i is an excellent camera too. Your Canon is a DSLR, whereas the Sony is more compact in size.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

What is the source? I'm not seeing this package, camera and two good lenses at that price, available from a casual internet search this morning. If you can lock-in this price for USA warranted body and lenses, this is a good deal. Mirror vs Mirrorless for a crop-sensor is not an applicable issue. Canon's newest full-frame mirrorless body supports use of these lenses, with full functionality. If you feel you grow out of this body at some point in the distant future, the lenses will migrate seamlessly to a mirrorless body (via a Canon sold adapter).

dmgallmon

CHG Canon,
Found the T7i with 18-55 for $649.00 and add on the 55-250 lens for $139.00 at 42nd Street Photo online.

out4life2016 Loc: Bellingham, Washington

I personally would look at the Canon 80D with 18-135 IS lens. they are significantly dropping in price and are rated as one of the best crop sensor canon cameras with all the many features it has. Everyone that I have talked to love it and it will take you many years to grow out of it.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

dmgallmon wrote:

CHG Canon,
Found the T7i with 18-55 for $649.00 and add on the 55-250 lens for $139.00 at 42nd Street Photo online.

You don't want to deal with this outfit. Consider why no authorized Canon dealer is offering this bundle ... I put 42 street in the search box at the top of this page. Here's the first entry of several that came back:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-405969-1.html

jaziey.g

You want to stay with U.S., non grey market gear. Make sure you can get a US Canon warranty, and register your gear. Grey market items are cheaper but will not be fixed by US Canon dealers should you need it.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

jaziey.g wrote:

You want to stay with U.S., non grey market gear. Make sure you can get a US Canon warranty, and register your gear. Grey market items are cheaper but will not be fixed by US Canon dealers should you need it.

Canon will fix them, at cost, not under warranty coverage. Most equipment will never break / need a repair, whether within the warranty period or afterward. But, if the vendor sends you a camera with some equipment removed from the box that they'll sell later at a higher cost, that lower cost gamble evaporates.

dmgallmon

Thanks for all the responses and good information. Yep, I guess as they do say, if it sounds too good to be true, beware. I didn't have info on the "store", but do listen when others have had experience with. So basically the T7i is a good camera and a mirrorless is good as well, just according to what the pocketbook can afford, huh??

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

dmgallmon wrote:

Thanks for all the responses and good information. Yep, I guess as they do say, if it sounds too good to be true, beware. I didn't have info on the "store", but do listen when others have had experience with. So basically the T7i is a good camera and a mirrorless is good as well, just according to what the pocketbook can afford, huh??

You can buy a refurb body-only for this model from Canon. It has the same 1-year warranty at a slightly lower price. You typically can buy 'more camera' for the same or lower price when shopping used, a good used source is KEH. The 2-lens bundle is usually not the best way to go as both lenses are not the same quality, and not of the quality you found in this offer.

swartfort Loc: Evansville, IN

dmgallmon wrote:

CHG Canon,
Found the T7i with 18-55 for $649.00 and add on the 55-250 lens for $139.00 at 42nd Street Photo online.

RUN RUN RUN away from this..... This outfit is well known in the photography community as WAY less than reputable.... Best of luck

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

dmgallmon wrote:

Currently looking at the Canon T7i with 18-55 lens and adding 55-250 lens to purchase package for total of $788.00. This will be my first DSLR camera, is it better to invest in that camera or go with a mirrorless. If mirrorless, what is a good one in that price range?? Thanks in advance for all responses and for helping out a newbie.

dmg, welcome to the Hog!!!
Hmmmm, if this is your first DSLR, then you’re already using ML.......

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dmgallmon

ML?? Are you meaning mirrorless?? This would be my first DSLR or mirrorless camera purchase, presently using Canon powershot 40.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

jaziey.g wrote:

You want to stay with U.S., non grey market gear. Make sure you can get a US Canon warranty, and register your gear. Grey market items are cheaper but will not be fixed by US Canon dealers should you need it.

Nothing wrong with grey market as long as the outfit includes a no cost or very inexpensive equivalent warranty.
I bought my first Ef L lens from a bait and switch. It was a really good deal at the time. They tried to get me to upgrade it(it was already an L lens) and I wouldn’t. It finally came in the mail. I don’t even remember if it was USA or grey. I probably wouldn’t do it again!!! I’d get refurb or used!
Few cameras or lenses have problems but the happens. I’ve never had problem in 50 years of shooting!!!
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Keen

Canon has changed it's lens mount 7 times, which means that if you have slightly older lenses, they won't go on newer cameras. Nikon has kept the same lens mount for decades, so most older lenses will go onto most newer cameras. I recently bought a discontinued Nikon 35mm film slr lens for $27.00 which works on my D7200 dslr camera as a Full Frame lens. You won't find deals like that on Canon gear, because of the frequent lens mount changes Canon pulls. That alone keeps me from buying modern Canon gear DSLR, mirrorless, or otherwise. If you are going to get a mirrorless system, and pay the sort of prices they demand, be sure to get one which has TWO memory card slots. Nikon's new Z system cameras only have one card slot. For that kind of money, I would also go with a Full Frame model, rather than a Crop Frame model. If I were buying mirrorless, at this time, I would probably go with the Sony A7 Riii, or Sony A9.