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Hi!
My sister-in-law is wanting to buy a new camera and she came to me for advice! I would love to help her, but since I’ve only ever owned one camera I don’t have much experience in that area. She’s not wanting to be a professional photographer, but she just wants to be able to take higher quality pictures than her phone is giving her and her current camera. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations/experience with a good entry level DSLR? Has anyone tried the Canon EOS Rebel line? She’s wanting to go Canon.
I would really appreciate anyone’s advice! When I went looking I was a bit overwhelmed with how many options there are! 🙂 I imagine you’ll probably need to know more about what she wants in order to give advice, so just ask and I’ll find out! 🙂
Thanks!
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What is your budget? If we know how much you have available to spend, that makes it easier to customize our recommendations. 🙂
Righto! 🙂 Well, my sister-in-law said that she doesn’t really want to spend more than $1,000, but that was her budget for the camera and lens. She wants a lens that can zoom in quite a lot and is reasonable quality, so I’m not really sure that the budget is going to be realistic. . .
Well, you can buy a Canon Rebel T6i with an 18-135mm lens for $849.Or, you could buy the same camera with a kit lens, and a zoom lens for $50 less.Buy it from Canon directly (refurbished) for only $729! Seriously, if I was looking for a camera right now, and I saw this deal, I would probably take it. It has a 1 year warranty, same as brand-new, for a significant discount.
That’s a good recommendation, @buddingphotographer. It’s the camera my brother Jonathan chose to purchase recently as well. Have your sister-in-law made her final decision yet, @creative-click-photography? If not, I’ll plan to discuss it more in Saturday’s webinar.
Thanks @buddingphotographer! 🙂 Ok, that’s the camera that a lot of people on the internet seemed to say was good. I just wanted to check here before I recommended anything to Jessica! The one that you gave me the link to looks like a good deal, but unfortunately because I live in Australia it won’t ship it to me! 🙁 I had a quick look on Canon in Australia, but it didn’t seem to sell that camera. Adorama does ship to Australia, but by the time you do the conversions it’s about $300 out of her price range. So I’ll have to check into some other places. Thanks for you help!! 🙂
Ok @jamesstaddon! So your brother is happy with his camera? Did he get the 18-135mm lens with his? You know how it says f/3.5-5.6 is that the aperture range? I was just thinking that it would make it hard to take nice pictures of landscapes etc. if that is the case!
You’re welcome! Yeah, the T6s looks pretty good from the reviews I’ve seen! In Australia, the T6s is called the Rebel 760D, so that might make it easier to find. Here’s what I found on ebay in Australia: http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=canon+760d&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=1
Yes, Jonathan loves his camera, but uses the 18-55mm.
And yes, f/3.5-5.6 is talking about the aperture. When zoomed to 18mm, the smallest aperture possible is f/3.5. When zoomed to 135mm, the smallest aperture possible is f/5.6. It changes the more you zoom in.
However, this shouldn’t effect landscape photos all that much. Most of the time, when I’m shooting landscapes, I’m using a much narrower aperture. I generally use an aperture of somewhere between f/11 and f/22. If there’s not much light, that’s ok, I can use a very long shutterspeed because I generally have the camera on a tripod.
Where it will hurt is when you’re shooting indoors or in low light situations hand-held. Indoors, you need as wide an aperture as possible to let in the most amount of light possible. At 18mm with f/3.5, that’s not too bad. But when you zoom in, to 135mm, f/5.6 just doesn’t let much light in. This is normal, though, for a budget lens. It’s one of the tradeoffs you have to deal with when buying a budget lens.
Aha! That explains why that camera seemed not-existent over here! 🙂 Now I can find it no problems! 🙂 Thanks for that @buddingphotographer.
Thankyou @jamesstaddon! Oh right – I thought that that number mean’t that it only went to f/5.3. I didn’t realise it was the narrowest aperture when you are zoomed in the whole way. That makes sense now! 🙂 I’ll let Jessica know about the camera, and wait and see what decision she makes!
Thankyou both for helping me out. Much appreciated!
I thought that that number meant that it only went to f/5.3. I didn’t realise it was the narrowest aperture when you are zoomed in the whole way.
I assume you meant to say, f/5.6? Also, f/5.6 is the widest aperture possible when you are zoomed in all the way, not the narrowest.
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