i am looking to buy a film slr, 50mm lens. any recommendations? it should be quite cheap, about £110 on ebay.
2006-10-04 06:13:56 · 6 answers · asked by TCARANON 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
go for one that make the lenses.. like canon or Olympus, Pentax, forget the no name brands.. and i wouldn't recommend buying anything over £20 from eBay.. It's just like buying something from a giant boot sale .. there is no guarantee it will work, you can't take it back, you don't know you will get it in the first place and you might just get an empty box
2006-10-04 06:18:06 · answer #1 · answered by Paul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy either a Nikon or Canon camera, such as a Nikon N-80 (autofocus), Nikon FM-10 (manual focus), Canon EOS Elan 7N (autofocus), or one of the Canon Rebel cameras. Get one "general purpose lens" of a wide-to-tele zoom of the same brand as your camera in the 35-105 range.
The Pentax K1000 is certainly a proven student camera that would serve you well, but you'll have to shop used, as I don't think it's a current model. It has been replaced by the KX-M, which looks like a good student camera.
Here are a couple of suggestions from B&H Photo and Video in New York that fall into your price range.. You will find all of these on eBay as well.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=319781&is=USA&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=199516&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=165829&is=USA&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=145120&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation
My reasons for suggesting Nikon or Canon is so that you can have the widest possibile selection of high quality lenses available to you. Once you have really gotten into photography, you will have a few lenses and then you can keep your top quality lenses and upgrade to a more expensive camera in the same line. Pentax is another fine camera with a huge line of lenses and I always owned Pentax film cameras, but I think you have even more to choose from in Nikon and Canon, so these are the brands I have recommended to my own children.
2006-10-04 07:34:39 · answer #2 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.dpreview.com/
A great camera review sight which will give you enough information as you will require. Whether an expert camera pro or amateur.
As looking at eBay this site does retro reviews.
Also try canon shop on eBay some times they put in film SLR camera into auction.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canon-Outlet-Film-EOS-300X-28-90-Lens-Refurbished_W0QQitemZ280035020182QQihZ018QQcategoryZ30033QQcmdZViewItem
2006-10-05 02:35:38 · answer #3 · answered by the knitter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get whatever you can find. Anything by Canon or Nikon with a simple 50mm f/1.8 would be nice.
2006-10-04 06:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Try cheapest prices search engine. Almost all of the merchants are listed there.
2006-10-04 07:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to best buy.com and you will find everything in camera you need.....
2006-10-04 06:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by DEE P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋