Nikon D50 + 18-55mm Lens - Entry Level DSLR

For about two years now there has been a race going on between Canon, Pentax, Konica Minolta, Olympus and Nikon to produce the first truly mass-market digital SLR. The price point that they have all been trying to beat is £500 for a camera and a lens, and the competing models all have 6 megapixel sensors.

The danger when designing a cut-priced SLR is that it may end up with so many cut corners that it lacks the performance and quality that an SLR photographer is looking for. However Nikon has spent the past 50 years building a reputation for first-class SLR camera design, so one hopes that it’s not about to ruin that record by making such a significant camera as the D50 anything less than excellent.

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