I recently purchased a Nikon D50 with an AF-S DX 18 – 55 mm F3.5 – F5.6G ED lens and an AF-S DX 55 – 200 mm F4.0 – F5.6G ED lens. I really love this camera. It is the first high quality digital SLR camera I have owned. My other digital camera is a Casio Exilim EX-Z50. Even though it takes decent pictures it has always felt like a toy to me. The very first digital camera I owned is a Kodak DC3200 that I got free when I purchased a computer. So I am very pleased to have a digital SLR that is on par with my Minolta X700 SLR film camera. I am really disappointed about the demise of the Minolta camera line. But, that is another story…
I am having great difficulty with this camera. Actually, it isn’t the camera at all, it’s me. I have taken about 100 pictures so far. I have managed to delete all but 8 of them. There were several that I really (really!) liked. But through a series of errors I have managed to delete them. I think I am getting used to the camera now and I truely hope there are no other stupid things I can do to delete pictures.
The pictures this camera takes are really excellent terms of resolution, clarity, and color rendering. The camera pretty much allows the user to point and shoot if you want to but also allows significant control over exposure setting too. I am just getting to be friends with this camera and I’m liking it a lot.
