I can die happy beer: +1

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Thanks for suggestions, Espically yours Akuma and Milla.

What's the general pricing for a D50 and a D70? Akuma, you said D50 was $600, is the D70 considerably more?

Milla, I'm planning on becoming fairly occupied with photography, and I've been considering it as a career recently, so I want a camera that's fairly above average.

Also, what kind of lens' should I be looking to get before others?

D70 i think is over 1,000 i believe...

d50
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rea=SEARCH

d70
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/store ... rea=SEARCH

avg retail pricing. I know akuma or someone will know of a site to get it cheaper + lenses

http://www.buydig.com/

Thats the site anti posted, nice prices

Thanks for the links Nyck. Edit: And Milla.

I'm going to be going to a local store tomorrow to see the prices. I'm lucky that my parents were both big into photography in the 70's and 80's so they're really into me getting into it. If the D70 is worth the money then they'd buy me it, but I think I'm going to go with the D50 because I'm not sure how much a D70 would benefit me over a D50.

If anti would come in here he would tell you, because he's used both but he swears by that D70 lol

Like akuma said I would prob hit that d50 then use the extra 600 bucks and buy some sweet lenses

D70 can take pictures slightly faster, and supports micro drives. so you can basically have a 5 gig HD inside yoru camera. but that would cost a lot of money to get. Im getting the D50 aswell for christmas. Personally I like Wolf Camera for getting my camera. but right now Macmall has some good prices too.

Yea, I'm really interested to see what Anti has to say on the subject. He was the one foremost in my mind when I started this thread because I remember him talking about this not too long ago.

I'm going to check a local store tomorrow, Do you think buying the camera online would be cheaper? I'll know tomorrow I suppose.

Im like how the fuk you guys afford this shit. then realized if I didnt have

$1700 bucks in a bills a month I could afford it to. cuss:

Hey i cant afford one either, i just wish i had one everyday.

Parents and Christmas biggrin:

Honestly though, I'm lucky my parents are really big on me getting into photography. They'd never consider spending any more then $600 on video games or my computer. Once I got my Alienware they said they were done with spending anymore on games and that was 2 years ago.

This camera will be the first big purchase they'll have made on me since then.

Lol I think my big gift from my parents this year is gonna be like 8 used tom clancy books I want for like 20 bucks... biggrin:

my biggest gift ever though was when I was 10 they got me a 386 PC that ran dos, had the 5 1/4 disks and all that shit. 2 grand I was trying to be like doogie howser and shit and would type up some journal shit on it at the end of the day and save it on a 3.5 disk.

happy:

Home Alone and Tom and Jerry was fuckin 1337 on that thing.

Then my uncle gave me windows 3.1 on like 10 3.5 disks I thought I was the fucking SHIT