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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot
E..... I'm in the market for a DSLR and have bookmarked various models across several sites, checked roughly fortnightly, for the last 8 months. I've also read the warranties and shipping/insurance conditions for those sites. I still haven't decided what to buy, but have been interested in the price movements over the period.
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Well from what I can see (over last 8 years) it is pretty much at the bottom of the market ATM, price wise, and DSLRs have never been better with better features, cheaper prices.
Canon 1100D stacks up very well to my older 450D (what I have) but I paid $850 years back. So you cannot go wrong with ~$300 for a crop sensor camera.
Maybe also look at the central DS cooled DSLRs if you want one for just astro use. Of course the argument that "these cost just as much as a QHY 8" is a valid one.
If you want full frame the new 6D appears to give good performance price wise and some of the Nikons are pretty good especially the newer ones, D5100, D7000. Also given there is a gent
converting these to mono for a reasonable price...these could make a damn nice astro camera...mono DSLR, mmmm!
The only issue with the Nikons is that there is lass available software to tether & run them like these is with the Canons. That said there are a few android apps out for this nowadays.
