CianMcLiam wrote:
If you are interested in starting out in digital photography my advice would be to buy a cheap secondhand DSLR and a good quality lens. DSLR's lose value pretty rapidly while lenses keep their value and usefulness for years and years. You can get a secondhand entry level DSLR made by a big brand name from about two to three years ago for very little.
That’s very, very true Cian. My Nikon F2A is a thing of beauty which I still occasionally ‘turn on’ just to listen to the mechanism tick away. Now almost totally redundant however (though the lenses will still fit the higher-end priced Nikon digital cameras). You probably know but Nikon started off during WWII manufacturing lenses for submarine periscopes – dunno how they got into high spec camera mechanics though.And does anyone remember the technical papers Kodak used to publish – fantastic stuff, from macro photography to infrared and ultraviolet photography. I still have a load of them in the attic – I’m going to get them down, jiggle around with my old F2A and remember what photograpy was once all about :-)