We could recommend al of different types of SLR’s but the most important thing is what YOU want your camera to do and the functions it should have. The biggest mistake people can make is to buy what friends or family recommend to buy and then find out that it’s not their cup of tea and then decide to buy another one and sell the damn thing on e-bay or something. This costs you quite an amount of money because you never can get the money for it, you bought it for.

I self use Pentax equipment and i realy love it. I bought myself a second hand model to get the hang of it and to get some experience shooting with a Digital SLR for a small amount of money (total about 500 Euro). I liked it so much so i bought a second one (newer White K-x model) this year that has some beter features and posibilities as the first one i bought (still keep it for backup).

Lenses are also a big point of investment (like said before). Quality of the lens you use is a huge factor if the picture is perfect or not. Although alot can be Photoshopped, a soft picture will always stay a soft picture how much you shop it. Lenses come in various stages of quality and price range. Better quality and apperature, means a bigger price on the lens. Pentax has the option of using old film SLR lenses on their new models (these lenses don’t cost that much, but quite alot have great image quality).

Perhaps you can check some pictures i took on my website for some impressions about the image quality.

http://www.htd-photography.nl

Greetz,

TG1984