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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 214902" data-attributes="member: 11881">This would be my approach. Start out with a less expensive camera (D3100, 3200, 5100) and a good lens or two - small investment. Then if in a year the bug is still there jump up to a big investment like the D7100. All of the lenses will roll right over.I suggest this using my wife and I as the examples. When I started out I was using a D5100 and truly enjoying myself. My wife told me she wanted to get a camera and do photography with me. I bought her a D5100, some lenses, and let her go hog wild on filters and stuff. We went on photography trips and had a blast. By about the three month point she started to fizzle and she now picks up her camera every couple of months in a moment of photography excitement like today. Then, she doesn't get around to editing them or doing anything with them. I am not upset that I spent the money, but I can't imagine how  many times this senario has played out but with much larger investments. At one point I almost coughed up the money to buy her a D7100 or maybe even the mythical D400 if it would have ever materialized. In hindsight I am so happy that it is just the cost of a D5100 sitting in that camera bag in the corner and not a far greater investment. If this had played out differently I would gladly buy her a D7100 or the mythical D400 tomorrow. And I still would have felt like it was a smart purchase to try out the smaller training wheels for a year before buying the big bike. Besides, having two cameras is not a bad thing. Don't get me wrong, my wife enjoys her camera, but she came to the decision on her own that it didn't make sense to make a huge camera investment for what her use level is now that some time has passed. That's my two cents.</blockquote>

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