The primary function of this tool is to teach its user how to operate a single-lens reflex camera. Nevertheless, we'll also have to figure out WHETHER YOU NEED IT. 1) You'll either keep using your soap dish/iPhone to snap pictures, in which case this one will collect dust, or you'll start using it. It's cheap, but well worth the price. Second possibility: You'll get so enamored with the photographic process that it will consume your life. Put the theory to use, and then some, and practice, practice, practice. Then get yourself a normal technique)) Anybody who knows anything about Nikon technology would rather have a used D90 or D200/300 for the same price as this chuchundra) And a simple fix for them than this D3100. You can get some fantastic images with this gear (in skillful hands)
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