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DaHuuuuuudge on 03 June 2012
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TWRoO said:
DaHuuuuuudge said:
kowenicki said:

Nikon, Nikon, Nikon and Nikon.

Get second hand if you have to....

Nikon d3100 is an excellent entry level model.  It has depth for when you become more skilled and tons of auto features and settings to help. Anyone who tells you a compact or phone camera can match a good SLR hasn't got a clue.

Awesome, thanks!

Also a question for MP count: a lot of the high quality ones have around 14-16 MP, but I've seen ones go as high as 20-26... can the human eye really see a difference once the pictures are such a high quality? Or does the high MP count help with a digital zoom?

Kinda depends... I know with compact cameras companies are going overkill trying to fit high resolutions on, and it doesn't really help the image quality (compact cameras have smaller apertures and thus smaller sensors, and trying to cram in high resolution onto a small sensor means it's hard to get a clear picture at full res anyway)

I'd say 16MP will be perfectly fine unless you are planning on blowing your pictures up huge.

In terms of the human eye being able to tell the difference... naturally it depends on the screen you are viewing the image on. On a standard HD screen for example (1920*1080) the image is only 2 MP, so there wouldn't be much difference if you viewed a 4MP photo next to a 16MP. But you would be able to zoom in to the 16MP image to almost 1/9th the area and it still wouldn't look pixelated

Thank you so much for the info TWRoO!

Thanks everyone for the help!