Can anyone suggest me a DSLR with lens, My budget is $1100.

[Rosshole]

I am done with my part in the thread derailment. Sorry OP.

 

[MLeeK]

I'm guessing you haven't shot too many weddings, have you?

TOTALLY agree with tirediron on this one. I wouldn't walk into a wedding with a D5100 or any lens that was less than a fixed f/2.8. Well, MAYBE the D5100 if I were the second shooter or I was damn good with the camera and it was my only option. The D7000 would be my ideal BACKUP if I were shooting Nikon, but NOT even that would be the best option to shoot a wedding with.
Can you? sure. You can do anything you want to do. Should you? well, probably not. It's a recipe for more headaches than you want to contemplate. Especially in your average church dungeon sanctuary.

I understand that, sure. I also understood that the OP said his budget was $1100 TOTAL, I said multiple times you aren't going to get legit results with an $1100 budget doing weddings, but that was the only thing the OP mentioned he was after, so I said what I thought would give him the best results, given the price range and the subject. Sure, it's fine to say 'you need better equipment' but that's not really what he asked. I don't really see the point in responding to a post asking about an $1100 budget by recommending that he should actually just go ahead and drop $10,000 or so.

I then said later that he should probably just rent lenses if he ended up doing weddings. I know plenty of people who went cheap and had their photos taken by somebody with near that equipment, who rented lenses for a lot of their early weddings, and obviously the pictures weren't mindblowing, but the bride happily paid for them, and the people worked their way up. Most independent wedding photographers don't start by laying out 30K on equipment. Most of them start with a mid range amateur camera, rent lenses, and just constantly reinvest every single dollar they make into better equipment while they build up their portfolio.

OK. I missed the point about renting lenses for weddings and for that I apologize.
What I fail to see is this: He obviously intends on eventually making this a professional endeavor. In which case why would you buy an entry level body with 2 very close focal length primes? He is obviously going to invest more money down the road, so the next lenses will come. Instead of putting yourself in an entry level camera body that WILL need upgraded within a year or two at best, why not go with the best possible body he can afford? There is another $1500 or more that can be spent down the road on that f/2.8 zoom setup. In the professional world the lenses are your golden ticket to amazing, but if you don't learn first they aren't the golden ticket to anything. They are also not going to give you everything they can give if you have a body that is crippling you. You could have the greatest walking shoes in the world, but if you are wheel chair bound the expense wasn't worth it, was it?
Perhaps it will be an extra month or two of renting lenses to get into the bigger, better body, but it's investing in a body now that will last you much longer and allow you to spend that money on good lenses before you HAVE to upgrade. The better body will serve you better down the road as your back up camera...


A camera with a good basic lens and a memory card is all you need to start to learn and create beautiful images. You don't NEED a tripod. You don't NEED a ton of anything for that. You just need your camera, lens and the willingness to learn. That is what this OP needs at this point.

Yes, a tripod is a pretty damn handy thing to have too, but the cheap kit tripods aren't so nice to have and won't serve you down the road, so really? Why put part of that budget to a cheap tripod? You will want a GOOD ball head with a quick release down the road and not some cheap flimsy tripod that is a part of one of those kits. They are a part of the kits because they are cheap and flimsy and people THINK they are getting something awesome... Then they realize that it's not so hot. If it were FREE with the better body? TAKE IT!!! If it is going to keep you in a cheaper body then spend $25 at Best Buy in a month and get a cheap tripod then. Don't skimp on the equipment you will NEED first and foremost-camera, lens and memory card.

Yes, you can shoot a wedding with primes. You can shoot a wedding with anything. Primes are quite obviously going to give you much better quality than the consumer grade lenses. There are quite a few who shoot prime for weddings. It is NOT easy and starting out? You have a lot more to worry about remembering and fumbling with 2 cameras-which he doesn't have-to get the shot. As was pointed out to me by fjabron he's going to rent lenses for the hypothetical weddings down the road so it's a moot point.

Get the camera body-the best one you can buy and one prime lens that keeps you in your budget. To decide which one you simply need to decide is a LITTLE bit of magnification more important to you or is the wider "as the eye sees" more important?
Start to learn and see what you NEED. Save $150 and buy a fair to whatever kit lens to cover your zoom need for now off ebay in a month or two. Ask for Adorama or B&H photo gift cards for Christmas or whatever winter holiday you celebrate. Surf craigslist. There are people on there EVERY DAY getting rid of kit lenses, or selling their equipment because this get rich quick business isn't so get rich quick as they though. There are AMAZING deals to be had on there! I bought my 7D with less than 2000 clicks on it for $1000. It was 2 months old and I have the original paperwork for it. The guy was desperate? I had cash. $600 in my pocket that would have gone to Adorama seeing how I was buying anyway!
Just make sure you invest with a mind to the future.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Sony alpha 200 with a 18-70mm kit lens. Then get a sigma 70-200mm f2.8 (or a 70-210mm f2.8) and a 50mm f1.7 minolta. Here you stay in budget and get a full range between 18-200 (or 210) and a nice prime for portraits.

 

[ghache]

Used nikon D300or d90 + AF-S 50mm 1.8G or a sigma 17-50 F2.8

 

[BlackDog10]

Just for your information. I was looking deals at this website. "Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) W/ 1-Year USA Warranty"

I'm looking at the 5100 - that is a great price.. but am wary of any website without a specified secure payment statement or option to use paypal. Have you purchased from them before? any issues? thanks!

 

[MTVision]

I'm looking at the 5100 - that is a great price.. but am wary of any website without a specified secure payment statement or option to use paypal. Have you purchased from them before? any issues? thanks!

Go to amazon.com, bhphoto or adorama. I bought my d5100 thru amazon but it came from a store in my called cameta camera. Their direct website is www.cameta.com. They have some good deals.

 

[MLeeK]

Just for your information. I was looking deals at this website. "Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) W/ 1-Year USA Warranty"

I'm looking at the 5100 - that is a great price.. but am wary of any website without a specified secure payment statement or option to use paypal. Have you purchased from them before? any issues? thanks!

Just for your information. I was looking deals at this website. "Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera (Body Only) W/ 1-Year USA Warranty"

I would most definitely NOT be trusting that website!!!
If it sounds too good to be true... it's too good to be true

DealForDigital.com - dealfordigital.com/ - Reviews, Ratings and Prices at ResellerRatings

Stick to Adorama.com or BHPhotovideo.com

Click on the ResellerRatings link for why... If it's that cheap? It's too good to be true.