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Five Fantastic, Entry Level DSLRs and Mirrorless Cameras for Mother’s Day 2018

Chris Gampat
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05/03/2018
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These entry level cameras are perfect for the photographer just getting into it all

With Mother’s Day 2018 coming up soon, we figured we’d round up a number of fantastic entry level cameras (and even those with entry level prices) together for all the photographers looking to give mom a great gift.

Fujifilm X-T20

Pros

  • Great image quality, though not as much detail as the flagships at ISO 12,800
  • Nice feeling in the hand
  • Very fast autofocus even with older lenses
  • Controls feel nice
  • Menu system is still pretty simple to work with
  • An overall fun and compact camera

Cons

  • This camera really feels like it needs weather sealing or perhaps more support for video via ports on the camera.
  • Battery life drains seriously fast.

See our review for more

Buy Now: Amazon

Canon Rebel T7i

Pros

  • Lightweight
  • A fair amount of creative options
  • Not bad autofocus
  • Not bad image quality at high ISOs
  • Good colors
  • Touchscreen
  • Fantastic battery life
  • Tilt-swivel screen

Cons

  • No way to edit the RAW files within the camera in the same way that you can with the higher end cameras
  • Canon’s sensors are starting to fall behind.
  • Not a whole lot of dynamic range

See our review for more

Buy Now: Amazon

Nikon D7500

Pros

  • Solid build
  • Incredible battery life
  • Control wheels and thumb ‘Multi Selector’ changes setting quickly.
  • Touchscreen to preview images, and control finer settings
  • Wi-fi and Bluetooth integrated
  • Burst function works wonderfully
  • Much more affordable than the D500

Cons

  • Needed to remove lens to carry in small messenger bags
  • Probably overkill for anyone short of semi-professionals.

See our review for more

Buy Now: Amazon

Sony a7

Pros

  • Beautiful image quality
  • The most satisfying shutter on the planet
  • A crisp LCD
  • A large and bright viewfinder
  • Weather sealing
  • Vintage aesthetic with contemporary sensibilities
  • Focus peaking

Cons

  • I haven’t found any.

See our review for more

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Lomography Lomo’Instant Automat Glass

Pros

  • The Lomography Lomo’Instant Automat Glass Magellan is pretty small and lightweight
  • Fairly simple controls, though sometimes they can be a bit wonky such as the case for when the flash is or isn’t supposed to trigger.
  • Sharp lens
  • Gorgeous rendering
  • Nice colors
  • Excellent light meter
  • Includes a number of cool extra add-on lenses, a remote control for selfies and a lot of other cool goodies.

Cons

  • Due to the shallow depth of field possibilities, getting a subject perfectly in focus can be very difficult.
  • Sometimes the controls on the back can be odd.

See our review for more.

Buy Now: Lomography

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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