Buying a DSLR - Why pay more?

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[zlayzer]

"When you buy a more expensive digital camera, they expect you might nock it about a little bit"

If i buy something expensive i try to be carefull, and if it´s cheap i usually aint. It isnt the other way around!

[Icamppe]

@kaiqueagostinho

Looks like a 18-200 to me.

[powershotsx130isrevi]

Yeah I've seen some great prices for these online. Great resolution

[mdma111]

@71shoelover You must think of a RAW file as a "digital negative" which must be processed just as a film negative must be. A JPEG image straight from your camera is just like getting your shots back from a processing lab, you get what the lab thinks looks ok. Most, if not all professional photographers shoot RAW. The majority of people who share your view have never been in a darkroom and don't appreciate exactly what can be done it one. Don't confuse "processing" with "doctoring".

[SalilSundresh]

@zlayzer I think he's talking about a camera aimed at professionals vs non-professionals. Professionals need more reliable equipment than consumers.

[Dillshellard]

My DSLR has 1080p, pretty high res images and hot shoes etc. Still only under £300. Amazing how cheap you can get cameras these days.

[Robellislol]

Well I went from a sony a200 to a sony a77, which is like cheese and chalk, but its safe to say I treat my a77 like a little precious baby, well at least at the moment I do :')

[andrewford80]

@71shoelover Also, I apologise if my comment comes across and blunt or rude, I just happen to disagree with your point of view.

[andrewford80]

@71shoelover So, when you shot with film (I'm assuming you did) you were happy with prints straight from the mini lab? Never used a darkroom to bring the best out of your negatives?

The thing with a DSLR, you might as well be shooting RAW and in which case, you need to apply some PP if you are going to get the best results out of it. If you just want to pump processed JPGs out then maybe you need to get the point and shoot.

[ksearles85]

@zlayzer It is .. because professional photographers take their equipment into situations where they are prone to damage, amateurs generally do not. They don't "damage" their gear on purpose.

[71shoelover]

@andrewford80 Disagree you can get someone who is crap at takinging pictures who is a "computer geek" they can sit for 8 Hours at a computer and make a rubbish picture look great. I try my best to get great pictures straight from my Nikon d90 by shooting in full manual mode (M on the Nikon dial) after a while it becomes 2nd nature. If you buy a DSLR and shoot in Auto mode you might as well have just bought a Point and shoot.

[andrewford80]

@71shoelover Photoshop is just the modern darkroom.