Nikon F65

An excellent introduction to SLR Photography. This camera has all the capabilities of more expensive Nikons but without the hefty price tag. To start with, the quality of prints you get from the F65 is superb. Colours are beautifully matched and the focus, even on Automatic, is excellent. The camera itself is easy to use once you've had a quick read of the manual because there aren't so many buttons. Don't let this fool you into thinking that the camera lacks functionality. Of course being an SLR it is fully manual if you want it to be - changing the shutter speed and the aperture size. But its preset modes such as Macro, Sports, Night, Landscape ...

Is this camera the step up from point & shoot? I am a complete novice when it comes to picture taking. It took me a couple of days on the net to read up on all the technical jargon surrounding the different camera's and where to head off if you're tired of your point and shoot £10 camera. Needless to say if you don't look at the makes then there is a lot of opinions on what to get. The advice is headstrong not to go for APS camera's. I like to fiddle with things so I started to look at SLR camera's and what a minefield. Believe me there's a lot of reading one must do on this. Simply saying everything everyone has ...