Fell in love with photography back in like 2003, had a few photos published, learned a lot and took tens of thousands of photos of my kids when they were young. After my wife passed away, I was left a single parent of 3 kids 5 and under and just didn't have time to shoot any longer.
I was using a Nikon D200 at the time. Had a handful of lenses, some crappy G lenses, some mid-levels and a couple of really good ones.
I opted to sell everything in 2010 since I didn't know if I would ever shoot seriously again.
Well, catching the desire to now that the kids are older and mostly independent. My youngest is 14 now and has a expressed a desire to learn about photography, so I was considering getting back in to it again.
But man, the game has changed.
I recognize that the world is moving towards mirrorless, even read a few comments here with the opinion that the last DSLR's have been released already.
At first I was thinking I should stick with whatever NIkon's modern day equivalent to the D200 prosumer model was (D7500...?). Then I kind of teetered over to thinking I should just go ahead and jump in with the obvious long term winner and figured maybe the Canon R6 was the way to go.
But then I started looking at prices of glass for the Z/R mounts and holy crap!!! Seemingly $2500 at the minimum for any zoom that is faster than f/5.6 on the short end. Primes are a little more reasonable, but not by much - where's the bargain 50mm f/1.8?
What I loved about the D200 was that it had some heft and felt great in the hand, compared to like the D70/D65, or whatever the consumer models were 10-15 years ago. Plus, the magnesium alloy body felt so solid.
I mostly want to shoot landscape stuff along with personal portraits and some general photography. I guess I'd go ahead and use a mirrorless as a camcorder for home movies if I went mirrorless, but that's not all that important to me.
So should I go with mirrorless and one 24-70 f/4 type of lens to start? Since any body I buy will likely be obsolete within 5-10 years, should I go with a DSLR and the more reasonable glass and let the people that have to have the latest and greatest pay the R&D premiums on the Z/R glass? And then just update to mirrorless when I'm ready and use the adapter to use DSLR lenses on mirrorless body? Or should I buy mirrorless body now to get the more up-to-date censors and processing power and use DSLR glass and adapters off the bat?
Budget is around $4k give or take. I'd like to have a body, tripod, speedlight for family photos, remote release, vertical grip would be a nice bonus but not necessary, though I do want the camera to take one, and some glass.
Recommendations?
