Should i buy case for my Nikon D5300

If your friend needs to tell you, then you don't need it. IMO it's useless just like phone rubber cases, you spend all that money, you carefully choose the one that suits you the best and then you shove it in some ugly rubber case. So the only thing on your mind about it is to get good resell value? That's slavery to a thing.

If you constantly photograph in an environment that can get your camera scratched, hit, or thorn from your hands and strap, then by no means buy it. Otherwise it's just stupid.

Rather than a case, I use a small camera bag that I bought from 7DayShop and which cost me a lot less than you're planning on spending.

It's big enough (just) to contain a D3100 with a 55-300 and a small 'Meike' flash on the hotshoe.

At a push, I can get the kit lens in there with it.

There's also a zip up compartment on the front to carry 'stuff.'

Whatever you choose to use, you'll still have to carry it when the camera's not in it so go for something more practical.


"It's good to be . . . . . . . . . Me!"

That doesn't seem necessary. I've been using my D40 for 7 years and it has well over 75000 shots on it last I checked. I leave it in a bag with caps on all the lenses when it's not in use but I'm not particularly careful with it when I'm shooting and it doesn't have any damage to the body or any significant scratches on the screen (though the rubber grip on the kit lens has discolored from sweat and oils from my hand I presume). I like to carry it in my hand so I wrap the strap around my wrist so as not to drop it (which has happened once in all that time) and I try not to bang it in to stuff but I don't baby it either. If you're running through rough terrain often or are particularly clumsy then you might want something like that but you're also going to be fixing and replacing a lot of lenses as they're more delicate and don't take as kindly to getting knocked around.

I've never felt like I needed one of these armored rubber camera suits but I do always carry some type of camera bag. I prefer Tamrac and LowePro, but there are lots of good brands out there. I have two of the LowePro TopLoad Zoom cases and they work well for me:

Yazan,

Back in the day of 35mm Camera cases they were called Never Ready as you would have to remove them to load a roll of fill or take out the roll.

Just like the others said you don't need a case but a bag or backpack would suffice. Ditch that strap and get a better one that has no advertisement for the nefarious kind.

Lou Cioccio