Help me choose a second hand camera £350-£550

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Hi All

My budget is around £350-£500

I’d be taking photos of the family, holidays, days out, some portraits, landscapes and that sort of thing, I had a Fujifilm X100F I think it was but I struggled with the fixed lens,Although I loved the film simulations, it would need to be portable to an extent but not too worried about that with bags straps, WiFi would be handy to transfer to my mobile phone

Currently been looking at the Sony A6300, fairly small, lots of options with lens changes

But I’m lost with which would be best for me?

Any do’s or don’t and what would be a fair price for a Sony A6300 secondhand

Many thanks!!!

Mart
 
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If you are set on the Sony I would just buy the A6000 over the A6300 as it will be cheaper and there is very little difference in the cameras and you get a pretty much new one for £400 second hand .
 
GM All!

So I managed to get a brand new sealed Canon EOS M50 Mark II Digital Camera And Canon Zoom Lens 15-45mm F/3.5-6.3 off of fleabay for £390 + postage

Just need to grab a memory card (Any recommendations?)

And a len protector, hood, rear screen protector! :)
 
Hi All

I am loving my new M50 M2 and the kit lens but I want to try more street portraits, I'm a bit bamboozled with which one I should opt for, budget is £350 max I guess?

Anything I should be looking at would really help!

Been looking at the Sigma 30 MM f/1.4 & Canon 22mm f/2

Thanks
 
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iMacMart said:
GM All!

So I managed to get a brand new sealed Canon EOS M50 Mark II Digital Camera And Canon Zoom Lens 15-45mm F/3.5-6.3 off of fleabay for £390 + postage

Just need to grab a memory card (Any recommendations?)

And a len protector, hood, rear screen protector! :)
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I've never had any issues with Lexar or Sandisk. If it's purely for still photography speed won't be a massive issue, so don't pay an insane premium for the fastest cards. Don't buy from anywhere potentially dodgy, there's a lot of fake cards around.

If you want to shoot video (especially 4k or low compression) the manual will say what speed rating you need.
 
EF-M is quite a limited system, the M series cameras kind of flopped on release and Canon discontinued the system entirely a few years ago after making only a handful of native lenses. You can get adapters to use older EF and EF-S lenses, which is probably the way to go at the cost of compactness if you want more choice of lenses.
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
I've never had any issues with Lexar or Sandisk. If it's purely for still photography speed won't be a massive issue, so don't pay an insane premium for the fastest cards. Don't buy from anywhere potentially dodgy, there's a lot of fake cards around.

If you want to shoot video (especially 4k or low compression) the manual will say what speed rating you need.
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I ended up ordering the below

Lexar 128GB SD Card SILVER, Up to 205MB/s Read, 140MB/s Write, SDXC UHS-I Memory Card, Class 10, U3, V30, SD Card for Professional Photographers, Videographers, Enthusiasts​

 
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