re: OT PHOTOGRAPHERS: Sony, Canon, or Nikon? Help me pick a new camera

I have d300, EOS40d (best buy grand opening purchase), k200d and a d40.

My first dslr was a d40x. I was blown away by it's images. It was an upgrade from a Fuji point n shoot.

I used to be a camera whore. If I were rich I'd buy a Phase 1 or Hassellblad.

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buy used gear from Adorama some from B&H both are good have never had an issue, both always low shutter counts <200 on the E rated stuff. Coming from a D3300 you may be happy with a less expensive D5500, unless D7500 weather sealing is important to you. The D5500 is surprisingly good in low light have bought several for my kids.

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The higher fps and weather sealing are important to me to get the d7500. There’s renewed D7500s on BH for like $600 and that seems like a great deal. When the economy settles a bit I will pull the trigger.

Let me ask you this. I recently upgraded my memory card to a 100MB card (I know the write speeds are slower but that’s the advertising speed for the card). Will this be more than enough on a d7500 or should I have spring for the 170MB? It’s a Noticeable different in clearing the buffer and not locking up from my 4MB card on my d3300

Pentax is great too. This is a smoking deal on the best built crop sensor camera with walkabout lens

Pentax K-70

Canon or Nikon. Not Sony.

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The best program I've come across is Capture One Pro.

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You get Capture one Express for free with Sony and Fuji systems. That's all most people would ever need.

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and just for giggles you can get a decent mount adapter and pick up a few orphan Prime lenses (say, Rokkor 50mm f1.4, 58mm f1.4, maybe a Hexanon 40mm f1.8) for relative pennies. You'll be shocked to learn how easy it is to shoot Aperture Priority manual focus, and the sharpness of these lenses will also make you surprised.

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This is why Sony wins. You can literally put any camera lens ever made on one of their mirrorless bodies. Plus their sensors run circles around both cannon and nikon for color depth and noise (low light performance.)

All you have to do is go to DxoMark.com and see where the Camera's score and then place that side by side with cost. The Sony A7RIII is with. in a couple of points of the medium format Hasselblad and is even with the Full Frame, Full bodied Nikon D850 which costs almost twice as much. While we are looking at the top of the range here, the technology does trickle down to their other offerings.

When you figure in image quality, smallish form factor (of mirrorless) and cost, this is not a competition. Sony all day.

I use C1 too. FYI, they're running a solid promotion if you want full Capture One. You can get Fuji/Sony specific versions on the annual basis for like 40 something bucks for the first year right now.

I'm still running 12, but I might upgrade to 20 soon.

I like Sony

A7Riii is nasty

Your budget is way too low for most of the cameras being discussed here. It sounds like your main use will be still product photography of your art. If so, then I suggest a tripod, a backdrop, and good lighting in addition to a camera. The camera should be used, which really means Canon or Nikon (the largest and deepest used markets).

Some good deals can be found on facebook marketplace, but also some scams. KEH.com is a great site for used equipment at a good price.

Most people are talking about mirrorless full frame, but a crop sensor DSLR with a budget/ kit lens will take photos with quality far exceeding what people will see on their phones when looking at your website. The main advantage of full frame over crop sensor is low light. For product photography that doesn't matter.

I don't have much experience with video, but again I think if you really want to get into that the microphones, lighting, video editing computer and software, etc is going to blow up your budget.

For a lightweight, easy to use system that's affordable and does everything - you are not going to beat your iphone. (amazing things can be done with a phone, good lighting, and editing software)