Excuse me, I plan to buy a SLR with a budget of around 15,000. I want a Nikon one. Do you have any recommendations?

Written before: For ordinary people, the choice of SLR is nothing more than Canon and Nikon. And since the lens mounts of N and C are incompatible, you will have to pay a heavy price if you try to get involved with either one of them. So you must consider it carefully. Regarding the topic of which one is better between the two, the photography circles around the world have been discussing it for decades, but they have not been able to come to a conclusion. Moreover, for ordinary users like us, if we want to compare, we have to compare the models. , rather than by brand.

There is one thing that some people may be taboo about: if you look at the budget of 15,000 yuan, except for the D700, which only costs 15,000 yuan for the body, the models that can be considered are all made in Thailand, and the C The ones at home are made in Japan.

To get back to the subject, I don’t really recommend buying the D700 right away. With a budget of 15,000 yuan, if you spend 15,000 yuan to buy the camera body, you will have very little money to buy lenses. There is a saying: An iron lens is like a flowing body. For a $15,000 body, at least one lens must be close to or more than $5,000 (or even half the price of the body). And this choice is really not suitable for you. Besides, it would be unwise to use such good equipment from the beginning. Even if you insist on getting the D700, you must wait for a while. It won't be long before the D700's rival, the Canon 5D2, will evolve into the 5D3. The 5D3 has 26 million pixels, while the D700 has 1,200 pixels. Moreover, the 5D3 will definitely catch up in weak functions such as continuous shooting and focusing systems. . The D700 has been on the market for more than two years, and its competitiveness is really not strong. The replacement model of D700, D800, will also be launched soon. All this indicates that the price of the D700 has dropped, so if you wait a little longer, you can save more money for the lens.

I still recommend the D7000 with 18-200mm. The price is about 14,000. The D90 body is quite outdated and cannot keep up with the development trend of DSLR. Moreover, it has been discontinued and is not easy to buy. Another option is the D300s or looking forward to the launch of its replacement model D400. Although the pixels are much worse than its competing model Canon 7D, with Nikon's steady mechanical technology, focusing system and a series of hard work, the price is still at Around 9500, slightly better than 7D. The upcoming D400 has made a big leap in terms of pixel improvements (from 12 million pixels to 24 million pixels), but the price will definitely be a little expensive, which is not very good for the balance between the lens and the body.

There is one more thing to remind you. Be humble in everything you do and don't be pushy. Although the SLR kit may not be the most suitable for you, it must be very suitable for most people. The purpose of the merchants is to maximize profits and the matching is predestined. of. Unless there is guidance from an expert, don’t pretend to be proficient and mix and match at will. (I suffered a big loss in the beginning and wasted several lenses.) In short, the one that suits you is the best. There are many "new functions" of the camera. If you don't use them more, it will be useless. In a few days, it will be useless. It will lose its freshness and lose all your money. Someone once said: Nikon makes real cameras, while Canon makes cameras that conform to digital fashion trends. Therefore, Canon has many novel and fashionable features, while Nikon has fewer.

I think this is not only true for Canon and Nikon, but also for a brand's own internal products - if you don't often look at the LCD display screen (just like a camera), the flip screen is useless to you; if you don't When printing posters or enlarging photos at high magnification, high pixels are useless to you (if you wash them out on a five- or six-inch photo, you won’t even be able to tell the difference of five million pixels in the same grade); if you don’t pursue it, The solid feel and metal body are useless to you (the camera is not a shot put); if you don’t often shoot high-speed moving objects, the powerful high-speed continuous shooting function is useless! You will inevitably be late for soup, but you have the right and ability to refuse more tasteless food!

In a word, I wish you success in purchasing the camera and good luck in using it - making good movies is the last word!