Need Help with choosing a SLR camera

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Well I'm a photography student in my school and have just finished my final exam for that lesson. I'm seriously considering doing photography as an A level subject (that just means doing the higher up course for later years). It's advised that we have a SLR camera.

I'm fairly new to this whole SLR scene thing so I was wondering if you guys have any experience. I'm told that you should buy one that does the things you need done.

I want one with a well known brand, one with a lot of lenses to choose from
I'm going to need the camera for landscape photography mostly, and maybe working in low light. And working outside.
I want a fairly good sized sensor, so I can take some nice landscape photos.
The sensor must be self cleaning, that's the last thing I want to be worrying about lol.
A camera that could take the photo in RAW format would be nice but not necessary.
Maximum white balance control would be cool too.
I hear mega pixels is not the end all or be all of SLR cameras but it does help right?
Not to bothered about what type of card it takes either, that can be bought after.

I don't really want to be going over the price of £1200ish. This may be a tall order but any help is much appreciated. :biggrin:
 
I was going to recomend the Nikon camera I use, it gives me pics in RAW and has all the color and lightning management in one import screen. But it's way higher than $1,200.

Look for the Nikon D300 and see if you like it. Try looking for a combo purchase that includes lens, light unit and memory. There must be a camera store that has one.
 
Cool thanks, any others I should look at? I have till early September till my new course starts.
 
Alger said:
Cool thanks, any others I should look at? I have till early September till my new course starts.
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My friends that are heavy into photography have told me that you are best off going with Canon or Nikon. I'd say go for the Canon 40D which should run you about 700 pounds (just converting currency in my head here), which gives you room to get a couple nice lenses. It comes either as the body or packaged with a 28-135mm lens, which is really nice for a basic all purpose. You'll probably want a wide angle and a telephoto to go with it just to round out your selection. It has a self-cleaning feature like you want and 6.5 fps continuous shooting.

I can't stress enough though that you should get high speed memory. The standard 3mb/s is going to really suck for the features like burst shot mode. Sandisk's Extreme III line is great at 20-30 mb/s write speeds.
 
DSLR and thanks Taurothar looking into it now.
 
Just looked at the one Taurothar recommended, I like the look of it because it leaves me some money to go out with lol... and buy books and other school shit O.o;;
 
I would suggest a D300 if you have the money. If not, the D80 and D40 are rather nice cameras.
 
Ok, been looking at the Olympus E-510 which comes with 2 lens, 4-42mm and 40-150mm for a very nice price which leaves me more £££ to buy lens and a good memory card. Also been looking at the D80 as suggested. Both look pretty damm nice, but I guess my question is Olympus E-510 vs D80? The E-510 link is here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Olympus-E-510-Digital-Camera-14-42mm/dp/B000OKNKGM/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_text_b

And the D80 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikon-D80-Digital-Camera-18-135mm/dp/tech-data/B000HK3JH4/ref=de_a_smtd

What are going to be the major differences?
 
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