At my weekly photography brunch yesterday, we had a new "member" who had a question. He's recently retired & his son had bought him a Nikon D5500 (I'm guessing with kit lens). He said he's interested in landscape photography.
He asked what kind of computer should he buy. He's already signed up for an adult continuing education class in Lightroom from the local community college (if it doesn't get canceled because not enough people sign up). Before the discussion devolved into Windoze vs Apple, desktop or laptop, and whether he should buy the Tamron 70-200 or the Sigma 100 - 400, my advice was he should get "the fastest processor, the most memory & the biggest hard-drive you can afford" (which I think holds up either way in the Windoze vs Apple debate). I should have suggested a good tripod, but missed my chance. But that got me thinking overnight & I decided to submit a more general question to the group wisdom. Given a new photographer who already has a "pro-sumer" DSLR, what advice would you give him/her regarding BASIC kit? ... after I suggest a good, solid tripod. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.