How do novices choose SLR cameras?

I believe many people have heard of the saying that "photography is poor for three generations, and apples ruin a lifetime". Regardless of whether this sentence is right or wrong. Simply being poor for three generations proves that photography must have its unique charm.

When you get started with SLR, you are doomed to open a different road. This road will let you master the magic of freezing time and leave all the beautiful scenery and delicious food under your lens in the memory card. So for SLR, there are entry-level machines, mid-range machines, Quan Huafu models, and then medium format, and so on. In terms of lens, there are various combinations of focal lengths. If you count tripods, flashlights, all kinds of lenses, all kinds of bags ... forget it, I just feel that the number of my bank card is declining instantly.

Ok, back to the topic, I just said so much just to let you know that SLR is a deeper and deeper road, and it also paves the way for my answer. Let's talk about general recommendation first, then my choice.

If your purpose is to take pictures for fun, you are not satisfied with your mobile phone and card machine, and you want to show off your style with a big camera, then an entry-level SLR can really be chosen. Nikon D3400 and Canon's 1300D are both entry-level models under the two brands.

For SLR, there is not much room for fuselage selection, and the most important thing is the choice of lens. If you mainly shoot portraits and still lifes, then maybe a large aperture lens of 50- 1.8 is good, which can make your picture background blurred and obvious, and the night exposure effect is also good. The disadvantage is that the center of gravity is basically on the feet. If you want to adjust the distance, you must go forward or backward. And if you choose the focal length of 18-200, you can basically complete a preliminary mirror tour of the world.

In the choice of SLR entry machine, we don't pick the fuselage, but mainly pick the lens. Be sure to leave enough room for future camera upgrades, because it won't be long before you feel that the entry-level SLR can't meet your shooting needs at all.

If I recommend an entry-level SLR, my purchase plan is to go directly to Quan Huafu+a good lens.

You buy an entry-level SLR, and the cheapest one costs 3000 yuan as the base. Then, as your shooting time grows, when you share photos with friends in various forums and QQ groups, you will gradually fall into a poison called Quan Huafu. You will find a similar scene. They shoot like a big geography magazine, and you shoot like a mobile phone.

At this time, the career of three generations of poor photographers began. So you upgraded your camera and bought a Quan Huafu, and the old entry machine was useless. Then I found that after starting a full-frame camera, the lens I bought before seems to be unable to keep up, and then I will lose into a good lens. Instead of upgrading like this, it is better to start with full-frame cameras and adaptive lenses. It's cheaper to calculate.

Quan Huafu and entry-level cameras are still quite different in sensor size, focusing, ISO value, continuous shooting number and pixel number. So the quality of the film is completely different.

If you use a full-frame camera from the beginning, you will quickly improve your sense of photographic achievement. Because a larger frame will have a good picture inclusiveness, there will be a lot of space in the later stage.

Realistically speaking, if you go out to work and take wedding photos on Sunday, choose to use a full-frame camera, and the red envelope is much thicker than the red envelope of an entry-level SLR.

Finally, to sum up, if you shoot just for fun, you have basic requirements for image quality, and you are confident that you will never upgrade your camera in the future. Just choose a good lens and an entry-level fuselage. If you are interested in photography, you want to take good photos in the future. Then take my advice and buy a full-frame camera and a good lens directly, which is still a way to save money. If you still can't stand it, consider buying a second-hand full-frame camera. In the second-hand market, the 5D2, which used to have unlimited scenery, is really worth starting with as long as it costs about 4,000 yuan.