DSLR War-Cheap Wins?

The fights and quarrels in the DSLR market is surely as hot as hell. Manufactures fight against each other to put their entry into the market, coming up with new sensor, adding functions, improving qualities and so on. Recently, these manufactures realize the market is push by one "very important" factor today: Price.

Deal with it, today, everybody wants a camera (Or maybe just me xD). We not only want a camera, we hope to get a really good image quality, good function, user friendly, and if possible, God-Like camera with low price as possible. That is the wants of the current market. Photography are not for rich people anymore.

Well of course, if the manufacture respond to the market that I mention above, they could pack their bags and close their factory down. So, they respond to the market in another way... Provide you a good (But God-Like), satisfying camera (For casual photographers) with affordable prices. By affordable it is still above 1.5k, please dun wish to get a DSLR with RM 1.20. Go buy yourselves some sweets will you =]

They called it: "Entry Levels", means, not for professional but you at least need some operating knowledge to use or you better get a "Point & Shoot" saves a lot of your money. You see, the label "Categories" for a purpose. Now let me show you some of the famous Entry levels cameras, which would somehow help you, if your main concern is the price tag on the camera:

Canon EOS 1100D/ Canon Rebel T3

Price you could get: RM 1,999 (With EF S18-55 IS II)

With that price you get:

• 12MP, CMOS sensor
• 9-point AF system 
• 63-area iFCL color-sensitive metering 
• 720p movie recording at 30 or 25fps 
• 2.7" LCD, 230,000 dots
• ISO 100-6400 
• Basic+ creative point-and-shoot mode
• Eye-Fi wireless SD card compatible menu options

Canon EOS 600D/ Canon Rebel T3i

Price you could get: RM 2,599 (With EF S18-55 IS II)

With that price you get:

• 18MP, CMOS sensor
• Vari-angle display
• Scene intelligent Auto Mode
• 'Basic+' creative controls in scene modes
• 'Creative Filters' can be applied to images in playback mode
• Multi-aspect ratio shooting (3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 1:1, previewable in Live View)
• Integrated Wireless flash controller with multi-flash support
• 'Video Snapshot' mode
• Auto Lighting Optimizer now adjustable in 4 levels
• Feature Guide
• Eye sensor for LCD display replaced by 'DISP' button
• Marginally larger and heavier

FYI: Lager and heavier is an advantage, your camera will get it balance with mounted with large lens on the tripod.

Nikon 3100D

Price you could get: RM 1,900 (With EF S18-55 IS II)

With that price you get: 

• 14.2 MP, DX-format CMOS sensor
• 3.0" LCD monitor.
• Image sensor cleaning (sensor shake)
• 11 AF points (with 3D tracking)
• IS0 100-3200 range (12,800 expanded)
• HD movies (1080p, 720p or WVGA)

Nikon D5100 

Price you could get: RM 2,499 (With EF S18-55 IS II)

With that price you get: 

• 16.2 MP,l DX-format CMOS sensor
• Side-articulated 3.0" LCD monitor (920,000 dots)
• 11 AF points (with 3D tracking)
• IS0 100-6400 range (Up to 25,600 equivalent when expanded)
• HD movies (1080p, 720p or WVGA)
• 4 fps continuous shooting
• In-camera effects filters in both stills and video modes

Sony Alpha NEX-5

Price you could get: RM 2,250 (With Sony 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens)

With that price you get: 

• 14 MP, CMOS scensor 
• ISO 200-1280
• RAW Image, Fine & Standard JPEG
• Maximum Shutter Speed 1/4000
• HD Movie (1920 x 1080 (60 fps), 1440 x 1080 (30 fps), 640 x 480 (30 fps))
• No build-in flash
• Custom White Balance

P/S: The Sony Thingy: Small, Without the lens, you can keep it in you pocket, Sony's "Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera" could be compared with other Entry Levels DSLR, since it is cute, I put it in my list xD

That is the few, I dun want a long long list here, you should check some of this first before considering other because these are the kinda cheap and have quite good feedbacks camera, this is all my point of view, I am truly sorry if it harm you in anyway =]

Mr.E signing out, can buy one for me? =3