Best Camera for best price

[Oxylepy]

DSLRs are pretty awesome, however the costs of them are astronomical. First off they often come with a zoom lens, which means you will end up with some distortion in your pictures due to how the angle of light taken in cuts through the glass, it's a heck of a lot worse if that zoom lens is bellow the 35mm mark. Personally I'm a fan of a nice lens with a good aperture rating, and a close minimum distance and those will run you in the 300+ range alone.

If you have a budget of a few hundred dollars and you save up for a DSLR, you're going to be stuck with whatever lens it comes with, and you probably arent going to shell out 600 dollars for a new lens.

Dont let people try and convince you to save for one unless you can support the purchasing of lenses in the future, and a tripod, case, lens filters, and ultimately setting up lighting. Just find a nice all in one camera unless you really want to get into photography.

Just kind of ranting because I've had a DSLR for years and have barely done anything with it because I never spent the 600 on the lens I want, and with the lenses I have the apertures arent large enough to do decent night photography, either end of the zoom lenses look crumby, etc. So unless you know you can afford that amazing awesome superfly lens you want, it isnt worth it. And everyone seems to hype them up, like a little clique trying to suck you in, but they fail to mention the downfalls that SLRs have always had. But any photography book would tell you about all the costs, how many lenses you end up needing, etc.