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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeryst" data-source="post: 114307" data-attributes="member: 12939">Hi. I'm new to this forum, so hello to everyone.First, a little background. I did a lot of freelance wedding photography while in college, forty years ago using high quality Minolta equipment. Then I dove into my new career, and photography became a hobby, purely for pleasure.Now, I am retired, and want to go back to my first love, photography, so I have decided that I want to open a small portrait studio. I still have high quality lighting and strobes that function perfectly, so the only thing I need is a DSLR. My budget is $4,000 max for a camera and lens, and I want them to be Nikon, but I really dont know much about the numerous Nikon models that are out there. I cant afford something like a D4, and I feel that a D7000 is not enough, so I'm somewhere in between.My uncertainty is this. Should I get a D800, or maybe spend a little less for an older model like a D700, D90, etc, and invest more in a better lens? Would the older models provide sufficient quality for portrait work? The D800 seems like the perfect camera, but I'm a little worried about the 36 MP files because I've heard that some of the processing software seems to not handle anything over 25MP.I  would really appreciate some advice as to the best Nikon camera/lens combo for portrait work that fits my budget. I would be doing some landscape and still life photography as well, but those needs would be secondary to the portrait work.When I was doing weddings, I had multiple lenses, but I found that when I was doing individual portraits, I preferred a zoom lens that covered the 55mm-140mm range, so a lens that covers something close to that range would be my preference.Thank you for any advice that you can contribute.</blockquote>

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