Roy & Angela & Diego & ?

After long investigating and reading reviews on the internet, this saturday we decided to go to camera shops to look around.

The idea is to by a SLR camera, something I already wanted to do for a very long time, but always found it to be too expensive. But now, with the expectation of the new family member, it became much more interesting to have a nice camera...

A note upfront, I have till now no experience at al with SLR cameras.

Initially I was looking for the Canon 450D, which was in my eyes most value for money. Most SLR camera's come with some sort of kit sell. Meaning they sell the body with some lenses. For the 450D there is a default one with 18-55mm lens, one with this lens plus a 55-200mm lens, and one with a 17-85mm lens.
This last one is actually the nicest one, since the quality is very good (glass lenses etc). But of course, this was reflected in the price aswell...
the kit including the 17-85mm lens was as expensive as the kit having the two lenses included (18-55 and 55-200mm).

So that said, I visited quite some shops (internet and real ones) to look for this one. This saturday I went to a professional camera shop asking for the Canon 450D camera. The young (but very knowledgeable) guy started to explain all kind of things about the camera, and what was my purpose of doing with the camera. He showed me things from technical stuff to what feels good to hold in a camera. In this proces he showed me several kind of cameras, including the Nikon D90. This one is slightly higher range than the 450D, but quite comparable in specs. Only quite big difference is the body which is from metal instead of plastic.

Also the D90 sells with different kits, with also the quality difference same as the 450D. The nice lens was the 18-105mm, which of course was the more expensive one. But funny was, that the price of the 18-105mm was more or less comparable with the 450D in combination with the 17-85mm lens.

I thanked the guy from the shop for his time and excellent information (spent almost an hour there) and left. Being outside, I was a bit aroused by this new information about the D90, and wasn't sure what to think. Since I was focussing mostly on the 450D, I didn't know much about other brands.

When walking to the car (I walked alone to pick up the car, and Angela was waiting for me, she is pregnant right, so me being a gentlemen ) I was processing all info in my head. And when Angela joined me in the car, I suggested to drive to the Mediamarkt, which is a big electronic shop here in Holland.
(It was half an hour before closing time) When we arrived, we went straight to the camera department to look at the camera's. And what to our surpise we saw, the D90 was in promotion! An amazing 200 euro's cheaper than the professional camera shop. To make this story a bit shorter -> Thinking -> Discussing -> Thinking -> Deciding -> Buying -> in the car home with a BRAND NEW D90 in the trunk!!!
Whoah! Nice. Of course at home immediatelly unpacking all and started playing. Again I have no experience at all with SLR, so expect some blurry pictures from me
Anyhow, Angela wanted to take some pictures of me, showing how happy I was:

The pictures I took:

And here already my first experience with the camera:

You can expect more to come

Posted by Joop