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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 537694" data-attributes="member: 16749">Back in the days of film, I would have suggested that if you think you're going to be serious about the hobby, to get as high-end a camera as you think you can reasonably afford.  A good film camera, properly cared for, will easily last for decades.  Alas, digital is different.  Sensors are improving all the time, at a rapid rate, along with the electronics to support them, and the hard fact is that any digital camera that you buy will be obsolete in a few years.  Not that it won't continue to take pictures as well as it ever did, but before you know it, there will be better ones on the market, at lower prices, than what you have and what you paid for it.  My advice is that unless you're sure you're very serious about this hobby, and unless you think you really need any of the features or capabilities found on higher-end models, is that you just get the base model, which is currently the D3300.  Many of the reputable online photography shops sell factory-refurbished Nikon cameras for a substantially lower price than brand new cameras, and in my opinion, a factory-refurbished camera is just about as good as a brand new one.  You can save a bit more by going down to the D3200, which is the now-obsolete predecessor to the D3300.  As far as I know, the D3300 isn't really that much better than the D3200; but I wouldn't go any older than that (that is, not to the D3100 or D3000) unless you're really desperate to cut the cost.  I note that Nikon is still selling the D3200, but on their site, the D3300 is currently on sale for the same price, so if you buy directly from Nikon, there's currently no good reason to get the D3200 rather than the D3300.</blockquote>

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