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Elegant Holmes · 11-25-2003, 05:08 PM

One of my favorite places is KEH.com. If you have the money, I suggest either a Canon or Nikon 35mm body with a Tamaron lens to start (the 35-300 will cover all of your needs). The advantage of buying this outright is that you can use the lenses you will buy later with any system upgrade you want to make. The lenses are the most expensive part of the camera system. Both Nikon and Canon have great digital bodies. With the more expensive systems you will have the option of renting strobes if you wanted to for portraits.
You should also take your special pictures to a real photolab where they change chemicals more often than the one hour places. The color saturation is worth it.
I would also advise you to buy a larger brand name camera because you have many options (filters, grads, lights,lenses, polarizers, etc.) Get an auto focus, auto exposure camera so that at the worst you have a rather bulky point and shoot. Then take a class and play with the manual settings. It's loads of fun. Good luck!

11-25-2003, 05:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
Elegant Holmes Crazy Location: "TX"	One of my favorite places is KEH.com. If you have the money, I suggest either a Canon or Nikon 35mm body with a Tamaron lens to start (the 35-300 will cover all of your needs). The advantage of buying this outright is that you can use the lenses you will buy later with any system upgrade you want to make. The lenses are the most expensive part of the camera system. Both Nikon and Canon have great digital bodies. With the more expensive systems you will have the option of renting strobes if you wanted to for portraits. You should also take your special pictures to a real photolab where they change chemicals more often than the one hour places. The color saturation is worth it. I would also advise you to buy a larger brand name camera because you have many options (filters, grads, lights,lenses, polarizers, etc.) Get an auto focus, auto exposure camera so that at the worst you have a rather bulky point and shoot. Then take a class and play with the manual settings. It's loads of fun. Good luck! Last edited by Elegant Holmes; 11-25-2003 at 05:10 PM..