{"id":25,"date":"2012-03-31T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-08-18T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:09:32","slug":"pick-a-new-camera-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Pick a new camera for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read through the Beginners Questions forum on dpreview.com and you&#8217;ll probably see one question in 4 asks &#8220;what should I buy&#8221;, or a variation on the theme. This on a site that is filled with reviews and any number of tools aimed at answering specifically this question, and yet still the posts appear day after day.<\/p>\n<p>There are no bad cameras, just cameras that are somewhat more or less suitable for specific types of photography.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a true beginner and all the specifications confuse you, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you buy &#8211; they&#8217;ll all be more capable than your skills at this point. Here are some suggestions to help seal the deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick a price<\/li>\n<li>Go to Amazon and use search, enter a price range that starts 15% below what you&#8217;d like to spend, and goes to 10% over. Want to spend $200? Search from $170 to $220<\/li>\n<li>Sort by Avg User Review.<\/li>\n<li>Anything at the top of the list with at least 30 or 40 reviews should work just fine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an alternative, how about your local independent camera store? Not a big box that also sells appliances and TVs, but an old fashioned camera store &#8211; they still exist. Tell the helpful staff what you want to pay and handle cameras in person, then pick whatever feels comfortable to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read through the Beginners Questions forum on dpreview.com and you&#8217;ll probably see one question in 4 asks &#8220;what should I buy&#8221;, or a variation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technique"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pePLXi-p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.captainsglen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}