My friend Sandy is starting to look for a DSLR. She has an old Nikon AF 35mm (a 2020) and some AF lenses plus a couple of MF lenses. My suggestion is that she start out with a cheap used DSLR to learn what she really needs. In the best case, she'll find out that a $200 used camera fits her needs, in the worst case she'll decide she needs a D700, but would at least skip the intermediate stage of buying an $800 D5000 kit from costco, and finding out it doesn't fit her needs. She may find out that the D5000 would work, but in a couple months the $800 kit should be down to $700.
I'd normally recommend Pentax for people on a budget, but since she already has a bunch of Nikon mount glass, she's probably better off not switching. If anyone knows of something that might interest her, I've cc'd her on this email: Sandy [email protected] -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
