[Dave Dodd]

Originally Posted by eyeayen

Get yourself on ephotozine linky and go through some of the reviews.

Similarly dpreview clicky are both to be trusted.

Tomorrow go to Tesco or a newsagent and purchase a copy of What Digital Camera, good reviews and a section in the back listing everything. Then when you're sure of what you want go to the shop, find one, look at it, try it, handle it, take a picture and ask them to print it. That way you'll know what you're getting. Even try a few different shops and a few different camera's.

£175 isn't a massive budget but you should be able to pick up something decent for that. I understand what you're saying with the extra lenses with the DSLR but I've bought bridge camera's for myself and my girlfriend a while ago now and wish I'd saved and got an SLR instead.

I'll look into it a bit more tomorrow and see what else I can turn up.

lot more to choose from... cheers

Originally Posted by Chris56

Thats ok Dave - didn't realise you were a trainspotter!

Do you still have all of those lenses? if so you can look at buying a DSLR body that will take the lenses.

Be carful with buying a camera with such big zoom on a budget - its quite easy to build an optical system that will zoom in 30x, but its something else to obtain a stable, sharp image at that zoom.

No sold it all, about 8 yrs ago, went Digital with a compact which i still have lol.. ive read a couple of reviews and the zoom sounds good

Originally Posted by chris brown

Hello Dave.
I sent you a pm.

cheers Chris