My obsession with taking pics almost on a daily basis started when I bought the Samsung Galaxy S7 at the beginning of 2017. The 12 megapixels camera was simply amazing for a smartphone one, and having it at hand everywhere I go has made me thousands and thousands of pics over time. Plenty of them are to be found on my blog as well. I still own the S7 and hopefully it will make it for one more year or so.
The idea of buying myself a camera(a DSLR one) came some good months ago when I realized that I love snapping pics and would take this passion to the next level, but this smartphone camera can't really match my burning fire. Hence it was crystal clear that I have to buy one to start with. Being a beginner, and not a wealthy one either I decided to dedicate about $400 to this purchase and for that money, and after asking for opinions around here and digging youtube for a bit, I decided to buy a Nikon D3500.
Why? I don't have many reasons to justify my decision to be honest. It's just that, according to my needs and level of experience, seemed to be one of the best options. It's not new, but it has less than 200 pics taken with it, one and a half years guarantee left, and it definitely looks and feels like a new one and it came with some well needed accessories as well.
The package contains the camera itself, AF-P 18-55 mm NIKKOR lens, the bag to carry it around, an extra 1230 mah battery and the charger, and a 80 mb/s 32 GB memory card. Kind of what I need to start with. All for a bit under $400. Got myself a bargain I'd say.
Now it's definitely time to educate myself and learn how to use it. I took a few pics here and there around the house using some of its presets and it seems OK but I'm sure it can do more than that once I get into details and start tweaking its settings in the attempt to squeeze the most out of it.
In that regard if anyone has any piece of advice or can recommend some good tutorials for a photography newbie like me I would appreciate if a lot, so feel free to share them in the comments section below.
Oh, I almost forgot. As a friend of mine told me even before buying the camera, as soon as I put my hands on it I already knew I have to buy more stuff to it, such as lenses and definitely a tripod...:)) Predictable I guess. Now, as soon as I'll have the time to snap some pics around here you'll see them on my blog. I will probably try and edit them as well, because I like that a lot.
Thanks for attention,
Adrian
