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<blockquote data-quote="Harvrad" data-source="post: 115145" data-attributes="member: 12968"><p>Hi, this is my first post on this site as a newbie. I've had some to a lot of experience with Nikon N8008s 35 mm camera, Canon 590is digital camera and the old Canon AE-1 Program a long while back. I am in the process of buying either a Nikon D5100 (wanted a D7000 but my wife said no <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) or the Panasonic FZ200 point and shoot. I work at Walmart where I can get a 10% discount on the Nikon and get it for around 549.00 with tax, or get the Panasonic on line for 100.00 cheaper. I love photography and plan on growing with the camera and possibly getting some college classes eventually, however my main reason at present time is due to my two daughters growing up before my eyes and not having quality photo's and video's of them as they do, they are 9 and 13. I want the best video quality that I can possibly get for my price and of coarse best photo also. For a point and shoot the ratings on the Panasonic are awesome, it has a 25-600 mm lens that is f/2.8 all through it and takes awesome video's. The main draw back of this camera is it has alot smaller sensor in it so the photo quality would not be as good as the Nikon especially if I want to enlarge any photo's. I thought that since this was the Nikon D5100 thread site that I could get alot of advise on the quality of the D5100 with the 18-55 kit lens for taking video's indoor and outdoors, I want the best quality for my money. I can't afford the 35 or 50mm 1.8 lens at present time so the kit lens would have to suffice for present time along with some of my 35mm lenses that I still have available. I have read that you have to manually focus the D5100 in video mode and that the video is not in par with the Panasonic, so for me don't know...have no experience with either one. Any advise from those of you who can help me make up my mind I'd be very appreciated. Thank you</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harvrad, post: 115145, member: 12968"] Hi, this is my first post on this site as a newbie. I've had some to a lot of experience with Nikon N8008s 35 mm camera, Canon 590is digital camera and the old Canon AE-1 Program a long while back. I am in the process of buying either a Nikon D5100 (wanted a D7000 but my wife said no ;)) or the Panasonic FZ200 point and shoot. I work at Walmart where I can get a 10% discount on the Nikon and get it for around 549.00 with tax, or get the Panasonic on line for 100.00 cheaper. I love photography and plan on growing with the camera and possibly getting some college classes eventually, however my main reason at present time is due to my two daughters growing up before my eyes and not having quality photo's and video's of them as they do, they are 9 and 13. I want the best video quality that I can possibly get for my price and of coarse best photo also. For a point and shoot the ratings on the Panasonic are awesome, it has a 25-600 mm lens that is f/2.8 all through it and takes awesome video's. The main draw back of this camera is it has alot smaller sensor in it so the photo quality would not be as good as the Nikon especially if I want to enlarge any photo's. I thought that since this was the Nikon D5100 thread site that I could get alot of advise on the quality of the D5100 with the 18-55 kit lens for taking video's indoor and outdoors, I want the best quality for my money. I can't afford the 35 or 50mm 1.8 lens at present time so the kit lens would have to suffice for present time along with some of my 35mm lenses that I still have available. I have read that you have to manually focus the D5100 in video mode and that the video is not in par with the Panasonic, so for me don't know...have no experience with either one. Any advise from those of you who can help me make up my mind I'd be very appreciated. Thank you [/QUOTE]
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