I have been conducting basic photography training for the one year and this is one of the common questions that I get- Which DSLR should I buy? This is the kind of question where you will get 10 different answers if you ask 10 different persons.

Initially I was reluctant to recommend any specific brand or model as I believe most of the DSLRs on the market currently should serve the needs of beginners. I was right to a certain extend. Different cameras capture the color sdifferently. Some of them have good auto white balance (AWB) while some are awful.  Some have good decent kit lens while other have kit lens that produce soft images.

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Currently my personnel recommendation is the Nikon D90 with its 18-105 VR Zoom lens.  This is slightly more expensive than the entry level DSLRs but has good functions and produces  good quality images. The images shoot from the camera using out of the box settings are good in color saturation and sharpness.

I may be biased from the years of using the Nikon D70 which is the pre-pre- predecessor (D70-D70s-D80) of the D90 . However looking at the many camera and kit lens combination from the various brands, I’m pretty convinced that the D90 + the 18-105 lens combination is one of the best at this moment.

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