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Looking for a really good but cheap digital SLR camera? Let's take a look at Pentax K-x vs Nikon D3000, a comparison that may not have occurred to you. What do you think? Nikon has a fantastic reputation for producing quality digital SLRs. Nikon ranks very highly in sales. And when you are talking "cheap" digital SLR, the Nikon D3000 is right there. But let me suggest that there is some value added due to a really great marketing campaign. Pentax seems to depend on just giving good quality and letting the product market itself. Well, not totally, but their marketing is nothing near what Nikon puts out. Let's take a brief look at how these two cheap digital SLRs match up? A couple of things favor the Pentax K-x: *The first benefit of the Pentax is that image stabilization is in the camera. For Nikon, you have to purchase lenses with the VR (vibration reduction) technology. There are plenty of those type of lenses that can be purchased now (many newer lenses are being produced with this technology). But if you have the Pentax, you can use virtually any lens that has been produced over the past 40 or so years, and it will work... with image stabilization. *Lenses - all Pentax lenses, even lenses made by other manufacturers for Pentax digital SLRs, work on a Pentax K-x. Not so for the Nikon D3000. It seems like I just said this above, but there is another issue to consider. This has nothing to do with IS or VR. There is a group of lenses that are made for Nikon cameras like the D3000 that only work on the cameras that have a "crop" sensor. Basically, this means that if you eventually upgrade to a high end Nikon, you would have to replace some, or all, of your lenses for the higher end digital SLR Nikon camera. *Video - available in HD 720p in the Pentax. No video at all in the D3000. *Next is Live View. Again, Pentax has it and Nikon does not. *Price - very similar. In what areas does the Nikon D3000 dominate the Pentax K-x? Yes. The Nikon D3000 has a visible AF (auto-focus) point chart. The Pentax does not. This is the one most mentioned shortcoming of the Pentax K-x. In truth, the Pentax is more of a higher end entry-level DSLR than the Nikon D3000. The Nikon D5000 and the Pentax K-x are a better match up because the D5000 has a similar feature set, including those features that are missing from the D3000. But those come with a substantially more robust price tag. Want to see a side-by-side comparison of cheap DSLR cameras? Thought so. Go to http://digital-photographic-resources.com/cameras/cheap-dslr.html.
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