What can you buy SLR cameras

What can you buy

Heskolko years ago we began to appear in the camera known firms, and among fans began to appear on the idea of buying. At present in Moscow and some large cities in Russia emerged more or less normal market cameras. To buy no automatic SLR a good company with one objective now should be about $ 250 (approximately equivalent to the price Zenith AIC). To buy a good camera with autofocus and zoom lens company first row should be about $ 600. Also note that sometimes “the appetite comes with eating, and in addition to the camera lens with staff still want to buy additional lenses, various accessories, such as flash (without the normal flash shot in color in a room is difficult). All this will require additional costs (different, accessories for Canon / Nikon are much more expensive than the accessories Yashica).

As a price guide for foreign-made cameras in this article are the average of Moscow prices. The price range for the camera in Moscow can reach 50 percent in Russia and CIS it even more.

Summary firms

Provides “five” Japanese firms are Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax (alphabetically), Kyocera (released Contax / Yashica), Leica, and the company’s “second line”, for example, Ricoh, Sigma, Vivitar, etc. n. Contax and Leica – the oldest brands of high quality professional 35 mm photography. Their cameras are very expensive (from about $ 1000 for body). Optics same way, Contax lenses supplied by Zeiss. Descriptions of cameras of this class are beyond the scope of this article. Companies ‘second line’ under-represented here, this creates certain problems. The quality of cameras these firms is high. Hedorogaya manual camera from this company – a great alternative to Zenith. The Five dominates the world market. All of these firms is very high class, if someone speaks about some of them are bad – do not believe him. Currently, the lion’s share of the market for professional 35 mm cameras in this class supervise Nikon and Canon. This only indicates that the top models of these two firms have some features that make professional photographers feel more confident with them. If you do not need to shoot a series at a speed of 5 (10) frames per second, and if you do not plan on 365 days a year to shoot several films a day in various difficult conditions, etc., the Pentax / Minolta / Olympus anything for you worse. Olympus, though, because of its range of models (their emphasis is on the SLR with built-in lenses and reliable professional SLRs without AF, which are used in various tricky areas such as medicine, astronomy) from the five drops. Detailed specifications of cameras in this article describes are not about them, you can read in other sections of our magazine.

I would like to mention a few moments. The first – the market cameras are very conservative, and therefore very difficult to change the company. That is, if a person buys a camera of some firms, it would have to buy accessories for it. Sell them and move the camera of another company (especially in our conditions) will be very difficult. “They live” normal camera for a long time, 10 years as a minimum, morally outdated too slowly, some special cells, such as manual Nikon FM2, in general, is unlikely to become obsolete in the near future. The second point – the breakthroughs in technology are unlikely, and the characteristics of cells in a similar price range. The third point – there are so many people are fixated on another company (usually or Nikon, or Canon), and accordingly, they are absolutely not adequate, it makes sense to treat their opinion with great care. Such people can meet in different places, and among the authors of magazines, and among sellers at the store. Talk about what the company is better, absolutely meaningless. You can only compare specific models, each has its pluses and minuses. Talk about a serious superiority of optics which is a firm “five” is also usually inspired by myths, each of the firms have different optics, including excellent. Fourth – if you buy works very much subjective factors, such as design, the presence of cameras of the company of friends / acquaintances, the possibility of buying, assortment of accessories, etc. Finally, and most importantly, do not get hung up on photo devices, even an inexpensive manual camera lets you make great shots. We have repeatedly encountered cases when, soon after buying the people there was a desire to change something in our view, this is usually not justified, and better think about what you want to buy the camera, rather than after. Also, when buying a camera should be borne in mind that if you buy multiple lenses, flash and other accessories, the hardware costs (body) will be not so much a part of your kit.