Hi,
I read the FAQ thread, so I hope that I cover everything as best I can.
I currently shoot with my phone, and have taken some pretty great pictures, but have always liked pictures and even developing since I was in Camp.
Couldn't tell you how to develop a picture now if my life depended on it.
So It's tax check time and the wife wants to get me a camera, and she knows that I don't want the Ashton Kutcher one from TV.
I'd like to shoot everything from nature, to sports games, to people watching at the mall, and even the sky as it changes colors. It would be nice to be able to take pictures of a basketball in flight and be able to get it. Now I can take the player shooting the ball and it will be blurry and then I can take one of the ball hitting the floor.
Planning wise I'd like to store the pics on an external hard drive, but I don't know what Digital Cameras store shots on anymore, I'd guess SD cards, but SD cards aren't that big and aren't pictures pretty big now?
Like to have
Camera
Lens or Lens's (is that a word lol)
Bag
Cleaning equipment
Tripod
Storage medium (whatever that is )
So the big question, budget. I'm guessing that it will be max of 2500-2800 but not 3k
But also please take into consideration if there is a good 1500 camera in case I don't like it as much as I like taking pics with my phone.
I've heard of a few sites like
Porters
BN
So, can I have some recommendations please on something to get?
Love shoting movies and someone had told me that lots of people get medium end digital video cameras and then just shoot pictures with the video camera, but I don't know how well that will work out.
Thank you very much for any and all assistance, and I'll run down any leads you point me to.