Looking for the used Full Frame steal! Does it exist?

[jungleexplorer]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

 

[NottsPhoto]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Canon 5dmk3.

The best all rounder ever. Imho.

now available used cheap.

 

[absquatulate]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Probably your best is the Sony A7, you can use pretty much any lens you can think of on it, with an adaptor, and it's dirt cheap. If you want real bargain basement then the Canon 5D is as cheap as it gets.

 

[jungleexplorer]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Probably your best is the Sony A7, you can use pretty much any lens you can think of on it, with an adaptor, and it's dirt cheap. If you want real bargain basement then the Canon 5D is as cheap as it gets.

If it was a choice between the Sony A7 and the Canon 5D II, which would you go with and why?

 

[Mark B.]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Canon 6D, either used or refurbished directly from Canon so you would have a 1 year warranty.

 

[absquatulate]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Probably your best is the Sony A7, you can use pretty much any lens you can think of on it, with an adaptor, and it's dirt cheap. If you want real bargain basement then the Canon 5D is as cheap as it gets.

If it was a choice between the Sony A7 and the Canon 5D II, which would you go with and why?

Well I've owned both, but it depends on what you want to shoot and what budget you have for lenses. I think the A7 is a good option because you can mount pretty much anything on it. However, if you're happy to go down the Canon route and stick to their lenses the 5D2 is a good camera. The A7 sensor is superior in terms of dynamic range, but you can get great results from the 5D2, you just have to be a bit more careful with exposure, i.e. not under-exposing too much.

 

[Mark_A]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

I don't know where in the world you are.

I am in the UK and last January I bought a used Nikon D800 for £920 with a 6 month warranty. It is a fantastic camera and a pleasure to use. Here (UK) now prices used have fallen to about £750 so even more of a bargain.

Mark_A

 

[jungleexplorer]

Thanks. Right now just looking for a body. I hope to add a 5mm 1.8 prime lens to what ever I start with.

Right now I am working with a Pentak K-r, so anything will be an upgrade. Money is tight, but I hope to get better images for my stock imagery accounts and starts selling more stock images.

 

[absquatulate]

Thanks. Right now just looking for a body. I hope to add a 5mm 1.8 prime lens to what ever I start with.

Right now I am working with a Pentak K-r, so anything will be an upgrade. Money is tight, but I hope to get better images for my stock imagery accounts and starts selling more stock images.

In that case I'd go for the A7 and pick up some cheap primes and an adaptor, manual focusing is a cinch with focus peaking and magnification.

 

[OpticsEngineer]

Best deal out there right now

https://www.lensauthority.com/products/nikon-d610-camera

$770

 

[Dutch Newchurch]

Nikon d3 or d700. Canon 5d (mk 1).

All originally pro standard.

 

[anixi]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

I don't know where in the world you are.

I am in the UK and last January I bought a used Nikon D800 for £920 with a 6 month warranty. It is a fantastic camera and a pleasure to use. Here (UK) now prices used have fallen to about £750 so even more of a bargain.

Mark_A

D700s are plentiful and even cheaper. D800 if you can afford it for sure.

 

[jungleexplorer]

Thanks. I think the A7 is the route I need to go.

Does this look like a good deal to you? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-a7-IL...gcgx:rk:1:pf:0&LH_ItemCondition=3000&LH_BIN=1

 

[Mackiesback]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

I don't know where in the world you are.

I am in the UK and last January I bought a used Nikon D800 for £920 with a 6 month warranty. It is a fantastic camera and a pleasure to use. Here (UK) now prices used have fallen to about £750 so even more of a bargain.

Mark_A

D700s are plentiful and even cheaper. D800 if you can afford it for sure.

You could probably find a decent D700 and 50mm 1.8 for a little over $500 these days.

 

[Mark_A]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

I don't know where in the world you are.

I am in the UK and last January I bought a used Nikon D800 for £920 with a 6 month warranty. It is a fantastic camera and a pleasure to use. Here (UK) now prices used have fallen to about £750 so even more of a bargain.

Mark_A

D700s are plentiful and even cheaper. D800 if you can afford it for sure.

You could probably find a decent D700 and 50mm 1.8 for a little over $500 these days.

Nikon D600 / D610 are also good deals used ..

Mark_A

 

[Bob Janes]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Lots of good stuff out there - no bad options really...

Also consider the Sony a900 and a850...

 

[absquatulate]

Thanks. I think the A7 is the route I need to go.

Does this look like a good deal to you? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-a7-IL...gcgx:rk:1:pf:0&LH_ItemCondition=3000&LH_BIN=1

Price is ok, feedback is a bit suspect, I can't really advise you on buying it, especially as I'm not in the US.

 

[Nate Shore]

yeah I would go d610 and like 24-105 f4 or something

 

[Brian P Smith]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Lots of great suggestions already. Do you want Autofocus? If you're OK with manual focus, the A7 opens up a world of cheap, adapted film lenses.

 

[bobkoure]

Okay, so I would like to get into a full frame camera for the lowest possible price. I am not looking for new. It can be old and used, but it must be a good model that takes great photos.

What are some models I should look for? TIA

Nikon D600. 24mp FF. When Nikon first released it, it had a lubricant spatter problem. Nikon stonewalled, D600 prices dropped. Now Nikon will clean the sensor for free, and if you send it in multiple times they'll replace the shutter or send you a D610 (which is essentially a D600 with new style shutter)

Like the other Nikon FFs, it has an in-body AF motor, so you can use film era lenses. IMO, they're still great lenses, just no IS and coatings not as good as current lenses.

I see the D600 on fleabay for $600, and the 50mm 1.4 AF-D for $200. IMO $800 for FF body + fast prime is pretty cheap.

I also have a D750. PQ is pretty similar.