Need a good camera to get for photography!?

Question: Need a good camera to get for photography!!?

Today one of my teachers asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, And when he called on me i said i wanted to be a skate photographer!. So I need a good camera to start out with, the moat im willing to pay is $200 And I also want a fisheye on my camera so how would that work!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Ok, to a be a real photographer you need to have a good SLR (Single Lens Reflex) perferably a Nikon because all Nikon lenses are interchangable!. You cannot get a Fisheye lense except on an SLR!. Here is the real problem, no camera comes with a fisheye lense so you have to purchase it seperately!. This cheapest you can get such a lense of any quality is about $700!. (Unless you get it second hand or on Ebay)!. Second hand is probably your best bet because the cheapest you will get an SLR new would be about $600!.If all of this sounds expensive, consider yourself lucky!. If you were looking to buy an SLR and Fisheye five or six years ago they would have cost at least Two Grand!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sorry but $200 is not going to come close to covering it!. A good fisheye lens is going to cost about 3-4 times that much!. Then you will still need to buy camera!. An entry level digital SLR like a Nikon D40 or Canon Rebel XS is going to be about $500!. Total cost would be in the $1,000 to $1,300 range!. If you went cheap with a point and shoot camera and a screw on fisheye lens you will probably still be over your budget!. The real cheap point and shoot models wont allow for a screw on lens attachment!. So you would have to buy a more advanced model and the lens attachment!. If you did this you wont get the true fisheye effect and your image quality would not be that good either!. Checkout the link below for somefishey lenses!. You may want to go with a Lomography fisheye camera to play around with!. They are about $50!. They are not digital though!. They use 35 or 120 film!.

http://www!.bhphotovideo!.com/bnh/controll!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com