About to buy a Nikon D50....yay or nay?

DoubleCheese · 12 Jul 2006 at 18:43

Afternoon all, I saw a secondhand D50 today at a price that looks very reasonable. It comes with a Nokon 18-55mm lense and a 70-300mm lense. Is £380 reasonable money? I can probably haggle down to about £350 too.

Also, it'll be my first foray into DSLR's, I currently use a Sony Cybershot W3 (5MP pocket camera

) and its "ok" for the time being. I've yet to see any pics from this (D50)camera though, should they be vastly different?

Anything I need to look out for too?

Thanks.

SDK^ · 12 Jul 2006 at 18:45

Go for it - Sounds like a great deal

Picture quality will be loads better than your Sony. High ISO images will show more noise, you'll have more control over depth of field (in focus area) and shutter response etc will be much faster.

King_Boru · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:25

Go for it.... great camera.

brocksta · 12 Jul 2006 at 19:47

yay!

Joe T · 12 Jul 2006 at 20:23

yay here too

reddeathdrinker · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:32

I'd have to say Yay! too....

Just cycled 3 miles up to the beach at Findhorn to take pictures of the sunset with my D50, just to see what the difference between a 200 ISO/slower shutter, and the rest of the ISO range with faster shutters is.....

Bloody addictive, that's what.......

DoubleCheese · 12 Jul 2006 at 22:43

Ok, I've managed to broker what I think is a killer deal, £300 for the camera, the two lenses, two 1GB SD cards, flash with rechargeables + charger, two batteries + charger all in a soft case too. I know the owner of the shop and managed to batter (read smash)the price down more.

And its mint!

Ok, so now I need pointers on how to use the thing properly. Any pointers to onlie resources?

Blackvault · 12 Jul 2006 at 23:50

We really should have a D50 apperication theard or a D50 owners club or meet.

Blackvault

Rikki · 13 Jul 2006 at 00:36

DoubleCheese said:
Ok, I've managed to broker what I think is a killer deal, £300 for the camera, the two lenses, two 1GB SD cards, flash with rechargeables + charger, two batteries + charger all in a soft case too. I know the owner of the shop and managed to batter (read smash)the price down more. And its mint!

Ok, so now I need pointers on how to use the thing properly. Any pointers to onlie resources?

How you took him out to dinner before you 'ed him

www.dpreview.com is pretty good forum wise for everything photo related

King_Boru · 13 Jul 2006 at 07:58

Digital Feild Guide for the D50 book is good.