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D-SLR Anonymous
I am planning on getting a D-SLR entry level camera, as price is a concern I am looking at: Nikon D40, Pentax K100D and the Canon Digital Rebel XT. This will be my first D-SLR camera. Any thoughts?
>> Anonymous
I have the digirebelxt, decent camera, incredibly simple to use
>> Anonymous
I've been on the fence about this too. Which one does anon suggest?
>> Anonymous
THe K-100D should be an easy pick.

Shake Reduction is VERY handy. a lot of people say "i dont need it, im steady" but your not.

You may think you are steady, becouse the camera is pulling all sorts of tricks to try and keep its shutter speed up.

The k100d is also good to go with a tonne of old pentax lenses.

The D40 is very crippled, and the rebel XT is now rather old.

Pentax have announced a k100d-super ( this supports the new SDM pentax lens with auto focus motor in the lens. )

if your price conscious, dont worry about it, these lenses will be about $1000USD each anyway.
>> Anonymous
My younger brother has a D40 and ive enjoyed using it. he just had the basic lens it came with, and he was taking all types of crazy good photos
>> Anonymous
>>61992
>he just had the basic lens it came with
Well that's the biggest problem with the D40: Nikon believes that 90% of buyers will use only the kit lens and thus made it that a lot of other Nikon lenses won't focus and/or meter on the D40.

(I really don't understand the deal with metering on Nikons, actually. Here's an old manual 50/1.4 Nikon lens; put it on a D40 or a D80 and metering doesn't work, but put it on an Olympus via adapter and it magically does. What the fuck?)
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>>62007
>Nikon believes that 90% of buyers will use only the kit lens
Nikon's right, incidentally. The sort of people who buy a single entry-level SLR tend not to buy a lot of accessories for it like extra lenses. We here on /p/ are atypical.
>> Anonymous
>>62022
I dunno, I have like half a dozen friends with various DSLRs, and all of them bought or want to buy at least one extra lens, usually it's some fast prime like 50/1.8 or 50/1.4. And AFAIK there are no affordable fast primes that will autofocus on a D40.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>62025
>I dunno, I have like half a dozen friends with various DSLRs
How many of those various dSLRs are the absolute dead-cheapest bottom of the line SLR the company makes, purchased as the person's only camera?
>> Anonymous
>>62041
The D40 is probably the only camera to be designed as "dead-cheapest" from the beginning, so it's hard to make any direct comparisons here. But most of my friends' cameras are more or less bottom-of-the-line - Canon Rebels and Pentax *ist's.