Review on Nikon D3200 24.2 MP CMOS DSLR with 📷 18-55mm VR NIKKOR Zoom Lens (Black) - Old Model by Nicole Walker

I am amazed by this little kit. If you are a beginner and want a good budget DSLR but are bogged down/wobbly with all the options and prices, don't buy. Just buy it, you won't regret it. I bought this repair kit a month ago for $365 and was blown away because I couldn't believe what I was getting. Personally, I shoot with my old, trusty D90, but this was a special project that required a special camera. I have to admit that it shoots much more reliably than my D90. Its focusing is incredibly fast and its metering is perfect for a Nikon. It's amazing what half a century of technological development has brought to quality and price. This D3200 kit is the perfect camera for those looking to switch from compact cameras and phone shooting to digital photography. It's fairly full featured and has amazing picture quality at a fraction of the cost of more expensive models. Basically, it's a way to pick up a hobby or significantly improve the quality of your photos without breaking the bank. I couldn't even tell it was renovated. It looked completely new to me. No scratches or scuffs and the LCD was bright and crystal clear. Thanks to that, you can create amazing photos (and videos) without crying if you accidentally drop it or afraid to give it to a friend/relative to take a picture for you. It's often said that the best (read: most expensive) camera in the world is useless if you're too scared to take it outside and shoot. The lens on this lens is the perfect first lens. It's 18-55mm, meaning it's a zoom lens (you turn a ring on the lens to choose the shooting area, zooming in one direction and zooming out the other). It's sharp, fast and copes well with low light conditions. I'd definitely recommend the impressive 35mm fixed lens for its sharpness and brilliance in low light, and the 55-200mm lens to give you some telephoto (big increase in distance), but each of these lenses comes at a price half the price. camera kit! You see how photography can quickly become a very expensive hobby. I would put them aside as a first purchase and see how things develop. But that's exactly why this kit makes a great starter pack. You get an entry-level but still very solid camera body and a decent zoom lens. Don't let the term 'entry level' make you feel cheap, this is still a Nikon camera with a legitimate Nikkor lens. It's drastically different and more functional than any point-and-shoot or pinhole camera. Period. end of discussion. If you find you need more, Nikon will be happy to sell you additional lenses or upgrade to a more expensive camera body later. However, this is ideal for the first step. I have to point out that not only does this take incredibly high-quality photos, but it also takes videos pretty well. It can record 1080p video at up to 30 fps or 720p at 60 fps. I'd love to see 1080p at 60fps, but you only get that if you upgrade to a D3300 or D5300, which cost an order of magnitude more than this D3200 kit. It's just not worth the extra cost. In practice, I was amazed. Even in horrible lighting conditions (e.g. low light indoors with spiral fluorescent lamps at the completely wrong color temperature and LCD as the intended shooting target), I can still get wonderful photo and video quality with perfect color reproduction. Nikon's white balance settings truly work magic where even a professional camcorder fails miserably (I'm looking at you Sony). Sure, some knobs and controls are tucked away in the menus and not as easily accessible as on more pro cameras, but for the price, I'll fiddle with the menus a few times when I need them (to be honest, my D90 was for a stunning few months when I first received it). The vast majority of the time I just set it to program or manual mode and shoot. That is beautiful.