I’ve always wanted to get more into digital photography but never did. Probably six or seven years ago I got myself a Sony 12+ MP Cybershot camera and thought I was hot stuff since most other point and shoot cameras at the time were 10 MP or less. Hey it was a huge upgrade from my previous FD Mavica and CD Mavica. Then I learned MP count was more of a marketing thing and there other factors to consider.
I don’t take a ton of pictures, but I want that to change. Back in May, I spent a week in the Blue Ridge Mountain/Appalachian area and between that camera and my phone I took about 200 pictures. In reviewing them on my computer, the quality isn’t that great. In the beginning of the summer I won stage level tickets for Brad Paisley, all of the pictures I took were garbage. Some of it is due to my lack to knowledge and skill with this stuff and some of it is due to the poor devices that I am using.
In the beginning of October I am going to the NASCAR Race in Dover and would like to get a decent camera for that. I want a nice beginner DSLR that I can grow into. I’d like to keep this camera for 6 or 7 years, so I don’t want something that will easily be outdated. My total budget is only around $1000 after camera and accessories. I know there will always be different lenses to get and such and this can be an expensive hobby, but the $1K price point is what I want to spend now and then grow over time.
I’m a Sony guy, and even though I don’t take his word as gospel, Leo Laporte seems to really like Sony’s new DSLRs and I know from past research Sony makes some very high quality sensors, so I want to stay within the Alpha product line. I’m considering the a5100 mirrorless or a6000 mirrorless with the 16-50 mm lens. Basically I’m looking for a camera that can capture fast motion sporting events (football, hockey, auto racing mainly), a lens that can give a nice tight zoom at a little bit of a distance and something that can take pictures in low light environments where the pictures don’t come out all grainy and the flash doesn’t white out everything.
Also both of these cameras are from 2014, with 2015 rapidy coming to a close, I don’t want to spend a ton of money, if something better is coming out shortly.
Thoughts?
http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/yre3/index.html
http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/qb9a/index.html
I don’t take a ton of pictures, but I want that to change. Back in May, I spent a week in the Blue Ridge Mountain/Appalachian area and between that camera and my phone I took about 200 pictures. In reviewing them on my computer, the quality isn’t that great. In the beginning of the summer I won stage level tickets for Brad Paisley, all of the pictures I took were garbage. Some of it is due to my lack to knowledge and skill with this stuff and some of it is due to the poor devices that I am using.
In the beginning of October I am going to the NASCAR Race in Dover and would like to get a decent camera for that. I want a nice beginner DSLR that I can grow into. I’d like to keep this camera for 6 or 7 years, so I don’t want something that will easily be outdated. My total budget is only around $1000 after camera and accessories. I know there will always be different lenses to get and such and this can be an expensive hobby, but the $1K price point is what I want to spend now and then grow over time.
I’m a Sony guy, and even though I don’t take his word as gospel, Leo Laporte seems to really like Sony’s new DSLRs and I know from past research Sony makes some very high quality sensors, so I want to stay within the Alpha product line. I’m considering the a5100 mirrorless or a6000 mirrorless with the 16-50 mm lens. Basically I’m looking for a camera that can capture fast motion sporting events (football, hockey, auto racing mainly), a lens that can give a nice tight zoom at a little bit of a distance and something that can take pictures in low light environments where the pictures don’t come out all grainy and the flash doesn’t white out everything.
Also both of these cameras are from 2014, with 2015 rapidy coming to a close, I don’t want to spend a ton of money, if something better is coming out shortly.
Thoughts?
http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/yre3/index.html
http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/qb9a/index.html