{"id":9946,"date":"2013-05-08T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2013-05-08T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:37:25","slug":"cant-afford-it-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9946","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t afford it (take 2)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t really feel like I have a need for it, since I&#8217;ve been happy with my D40x, and the step up from 10 to 14 megapixels doesn&#8217;t seem like that big a jump to me. Also, I&#8217;ve already got the lenses.<\/p>\n<p>But if I were looking for a new DSLR, <a href=\"http:\/\/support.nikonusa.com\/ci\/documents\/view\/1\/AvUU~wrEFv8Sh6FGGloe~yL~Jvsq~8H~tBe9zDr~\">$500 for the D3100 with 18-55 and 55-200 zoom lenses<\/a> strikes me as being a heck of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>I assume Nikon is blowing the D3100 out in favor of the D3200. And the 55-200 lens isn&#8217;t the VR one. But still, this strikes me as being a good bit of starter kit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/products\/compare\/side-by-side?products=nikon_d40x&#038;products=nikon_d3100&#038;products=nikon_d3200\">Here&#8217;s a side-by-side comparison of all three cameras I&#8217;ve mentioned from Digital Photography Review.<\/a> Note that I&#8217;m not getting any kickback from Nikon for this; I just like my camera.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.precision-camera.com\/\">Precision Camera<\/a> doesn&#8217;t list it on their website, but I have seen the same deal in their store.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t really feel like I have a need for it, since I&#8217;ve been happy with my D40x, and the step up from 10 to 14 megapixels doesn&#8217;t seem like that big a jump to me. Also, I&#8217;ve already got the lenses. But if I were looking for a new DSLR, $500 for the D3100 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9947,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}