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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Recommend Your Camera
We have discussed getting a new camera. We plan to travel a lot this year so this would be a good time. But I have no idea where to start, what brand do you have? How much did you pay? Are you happy? Any other advice?
Re: Recommend Your Camera
I'm a Nikon user, so with that budget I'd get a Nikon D5100
Reviews:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond5100/
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d5100.htm
i have and am loving my D3100, the kits are around $600 now. kit lenses are just ok and you will probably want to upgrade to a better lens pretty quickly. i know i am already coveting a few different lenses.
if you don't want a DSLR look into some of the bigger panasonic lumix cameras. they have excellent lenses and great zoom. they are similarly sized to DSLRs, have some manual capabilities, and lots of settings to play around with.
I'm definitely an amateur so I didn't get anything super fancy. The package I got included the camera body, the 18-55mm kit lens, and a 55-200mm telephoto lens. I bought a Lowepro Slingshot to carry it around on vacation and a lens brush and lens cloth to...clean the lenses.
I also bought a couple of large memory cards from Amazon because their prices are really reasonable.
Not sure if I'm missing anything...
Oh! I also bought some UV filters from B+H. They screw on the lens and reduce glare in your photos as well as protect the lens. I'm pretty sure my 18-55 got a nick or scratch on it somehow (shows up as a little spot on my pictures), so I will only have to replace the filter rather than the whole lens. Definitely worth the extra cost and they're really inexpensive.
I'm a little late to this post and I don't know if you'll come back to read it, but do your research! Canon and Nikon are the best brands for amateur SLR users.
See if you have friends or family that have either brand and you can borrow. People say you're either Canon or Nikon person. I borrowed both before deciding on my purchase and I LOVED the Canon over the Nikon. I just thought it was more intuitive for me.
I got a Canon Rebel T3; it's the lowest megapixels of the Rebel series (and also the newest and cheapest)..but from what I read and talked to people, megapixels isn't everything now, unless you're blowing up poster size prints all the time. I watched prices for about 2 months until I ordered it from Amazon at the beginning of January. I paid $420 for the starter kit (so it came with 18-55mm lens) and retail price is $550. It pays to wait!
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