Recommend a Professional DSLR camera for under £200?

CLLC

Hi MSE's :hello:

I'm interested in photography and am looking to purchase a good professional DSLR camera with a £200 budget.

Can anyone personally recommend any?

P.S I'm a newby with DSLR's etc, I currently have a Olympus fe-210 so any advice welcome!

d123

CLLC wrote: »

Hi MSE's :hello:

I'm interested in photography and am looking to purchase a good professional DSLR camera with a £200 budget.

Can anyone personally recommend any?

either you have a typo in your price, or are seriously out of touch with regards to prices.

You could get a decent semi-professional DSLR for around £2000, something like a Canon 5D mk2 or Nikon D700, and you would have to budget a bit more on top for a pro lens as well.

For a proper professional SLR you would be looking at spending between £3500 and £5000.

For £200 you wont even get a new bottom of the range DSLR, for example, the cheapest bottom of the range Nikon (the Nikon D3000) is £349.99 at Argos.

ManAtHome

You could get a decent 'bridge' camera under £200 - they look like an SLR, but have a fixed (usually long) lens. Example here http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5593543/c_1/1|category_root|Photography|14419436/c_2/3|14419436|Digital+cameras+and+packages|14419441/c_3/4|cat_14419441|Digital+cameras|14419442.htm?_$ja=tsid:11527|cc:|prd:5593543|cat:photography+%3E+digital+cameras+and+packages+%3E+digital+cameras

That was just the first reasonable hit (and I'm a long-time Fuji user..!!) - also check for (Panasonic) Lumix and Canon (dunno if these would get under your price though).

As above post stated - DSLR-land will end up expensive (and a waste of money for body and just one lens) - it's what's behind your eyeball that counts, not what's in front of it..!

Bob_the_Saver

Camera's don't take photographs, Photographers do, camera's just expose film/chips.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

What d123, ManAt Home and Bobthe Saver said basically. At a push there is the Canon 7D, which is top end amateur/bottom end professional - but you would be lucky to pick up a new one body only (no lens) for under £1200 (Bet someone comes along now with a link for one under £1200 )

Edited to add - don't just assume that the better the camera, the better your photos will be automatically - a lot of it is knowing how to get the best out of your camera

laurel7172

I just spent a day with a pro-photographer friend, who took better pictures on his *iphone* than I did on my DSLR (a Canon 40D).

Hmph

I don't have a pro camera, and I wouldn't buy one unless I was already very, very good. However, if I have any advice, it's: don't skimp on the lens. Unlike the camera, which will depreciate like mad, a good lens will always be with you, and have a decent resale value as well.

paulwf

You can get a very good bridge camera for £200 these days. If you only intend to publish on the web, certainly on sites like Facebook that limit the image size and compress the image so much they basically manage it a bridge camera should be fine.

Sui_Generis

CLLC wrote: »

Hi MSE's :hello:

I'm interested in photography and am looking to purchase a good professional DSLR camera with a £200 budget.

Can anyone personally recommend any?

P.S I'm a newby with DSLR's etc, I currently have a Olympus fe-210 so any advice welcome!

Could you stretch another £14? If so the Olympus E420 DSLR with short zoom is available for £214 at Argos just now.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360285107982

Ignore the ridicule of other posters as you've already explained that you are new to DSLRs and they should be capable of taking that on board.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Sui_Generis...the OP asked for recommendations for a professional DSLR, not recommendations for a DSLR, hence the comments about not being able to buy a professional DSLR for the kind of price the OP is looking at...

But the DSLR you have linked to looks like a pretty good deal for someone new to DSLR with the budget that the OP has