Shopping Recommendation???

[Dallasphotog]

Dan is giving you great advice. The internet is FULL of camera stores that promise super low prices, but with terribly deceptive sales practices. You'll be asked to pay extra for the battery or the strap and by the time your done, you will have spent more than retail for your item. If you refuse the add ons, your product will go on endless backorder.


Adorama is one of the companies I have no trouble recommending. I won't waste your time with all the stories of exceptional service, just be sure you willgetgood customer service and high quality productsfrom them.

[wolf]

You have to realize that sensor size and not pixels is at the root of high camera cost for FF. The silicon cost wouldn't change much if you had less pixels (you'd have a slightly larger yield with lower MP sensors, which would reduce the cost).


If you have larger pixels (i.e. less MP for the same area) you're going to have lower noise, which is why the original 5D was so good (compared to the crop sensors at the time) and why the Nikon 700 is less noisy at high ISOs (noise processing also helps). Less MP also reduces lens aberrations, which is why people say the 40D has better picture quality than the 50D.


The only way to reduce the price of FF cameras is to sell more of them, then the cost per sensor die is reduced (the reason why Pentium chips can be sold for the prices they do since they're produced in hundreds of thousands).

[wolf]

Whops, posted in the wrong thread! :S

[Ehcalum]

I would generally trust most places on this site, but remember. If google ads are used the site doesnt have control on the ads that show.





Take resellerratings.com with a grain of salt. KEH gets bashed alot, but I have never had problems with them in over 8 yrs of using them.