Whats a good (generally popular) and inexpensive model of a digital SLR camera for an amateur photographer.?
Good quality brands (in alphabetical order) are Canon, Fujifilm, Leica (BIG $$$), Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax and Sony. My personal favorites are those made by Olympus because they have a range of models for the consumer market and make stellar optics that have been designed for digital sensors rather than converting their 35mm optical designs. EVERY ONE of their Digital SLR lenses was designed specifically for digital imaging and there are significant design differences. The other advantage in optics is that Olympus makes consistently higher quality “kit” lenses then most of the other big names. The biggest knock you will hear against Oly DSLRs is that the image sensor is too small but Olympus developed a standard jointly with Kodak, Leica, Panasonic and other companies called “Four Thirds” that is designed to maximize quality while keeping cost and size lower and able to take advantage of advancing technology and it works VERY WELL! Here is a link to my Flickr site with many pi
