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Robsa
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Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand?
      15/05/2008 11:32

Hi everyone

I used to be a keen photographer when I was younger and am looking to take it up again. I am particularly interested in portrait photography. I was wondering whether you think it better to buy a recently released camera with a high megapixel sensor such as the Sony A300, or buy a more professional camera, such as a Nikon D2H, which is used?
I appreciate the fact that a lot has to do with what size I plan to print images out at - I estimate you could probably get a good quality print from 4 megapixels at A4/250ppi? That's seems plenty big enough. Do you think I really need 10 megapixels?
Again, I understand it gives you room to 'play' ie crop the image and so forth. But if I am mainly portraiting people this is not so important.
Will I find a camera like the D2H has more features or a higher quality image than the Sony, or has technology moved on so much that the D2H is now not worth buying at all?

Any comments would be most appreciated.

Thanks!
regards,
Robsa

Edited by Robsa (15/05/2008 11:40)

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* Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? Robsa 15/05/2008 11:32
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? Malcolm_Stewart   16/05/2008 18:25
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? El Sid   15/05/2008 13:41
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? Robsa   15/05/2008 18:03
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? El Sid   16/05/2008 09:28
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? Robsa   16/05/2008 10:45
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? El Sid   16/05/2008 12:39
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? BenchistaModerator   16/05/2008 14:49
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? El Sid   16/05/2008 17:47
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? BenchistaModerator   18/05/2008 10:57
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? El Sid   19/05/2008 12:20
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? BenchistaModerator   19/05/2008 14:05
. * * Re: Buying a digital camera - buy the latest model or second hand? T Sargeant   15/05/2008 19:39

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