it's not the nikon that's the shitty part lol it's this particular body

The E-1 isn't made anymore since it came out back in 03 ... you have no choice but to get it used. You won't find a weather sealed "pro cam" from $200 brand new these days.

If I had to suggest something new to you it'd be something like the Olympus EPL-1 or EP2 because it's very portable, great images, and basically like a DSLR in a tiny package. Albeit you will pay $600 for brand new.

Or if you don't want something that can change lenses, check out the new Nikon Coolpix P7000 at $500 ... it looks like a very capable camera.

thank you. this is all i need to know to get started now, i think.
thread closed for now.

Nikon is the shittiest part of it. Btw I got proof of your multi.

This post was edited by onepagememory on Sep 18 2010 04:12pm

e-1 seems to have awful lots of noise, it looks bit like on film, but since the camera has so little mega pixels, the pixels start to show up easy with lots of noise and what looks like pixelation(where it differs from nice looking film grain). but if you dont need to crop much and there is much light coming in camera(/ well lit subject, so that you dont need to raise too much cameras sensor sensitivity and get noise from high sensitivity) it seems like a great choice and seems to give colors for jpg pictures. but if you do some minor adjustments in photoshop, you can get same results from newer camera with less noise and more mega pixels so that you can crop more(or make bigger prints or just view details with zoom on computer) before picture starts looking too mushy.

No nikon lenses are very decent besides... I did buy the 5d mkII once remember?

It's a shame I didn't keep it

You bought it? lol

I did. it may have only been the body but that was 2600 given for the sole purpose of purchasing that body :/

I really wish I'd have kept it but alas, I was an ignorant immature teenager (still am for the most part) and now I know better

Not sure I know what you're talking about but we don't need your personal life here.

lol I don't expect anyone on jsp to know what I'm talking about I'm just QQ cuz raged