So my wife has been eyein a new/nicer camera for quite a long time but we haven't been able to drop the coin on one yet. Her birthday is in about a month and I'd really like to find her a complete setup. I'm leaning towards going used as 500.00 is about my tap out point. She'd like to make photography an invested hobby but as of now the camera would mostly be used for family type settings (she posts pics on a few blogs regularly) and my kids are getting into their grade school years and are pretty active in different sports/dance activities.
I know almost nothing about what's out there other than I see a lot about the Nikons in this forum. Quality, ease of use, and longevity are probably my biggest wants at this point, but as I said I'm uninformed.
Any recommendations/information from you guys would be awesome and a great help. Here's a few postings from a local classifieds that i was interested in. Thanks in advance.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218...lpid=1&search=
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