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RE: 13 Year Old Girl's Intro To Photography...Her Dad Thinks She Is Great...
So you would go with Canon package? Because of the lenses? Although you prefer Nikon. Appreciate the help. What would your gut go with in regards to a 13 year old exploring this for the first time? Thank you again.
I'm not necessarily preferential to Nikon, I just know a lot of people are very all one and absolutely not the other, whichever those are. Ultimately they're just boxes that capture light, so they'll both do about the same job. But yeah, if I had to choose between these specific kits, I'd pick the Canon just because it's got a slightly stronger telephoto lens, which gives you a bit more zoom to get in close to far-away subjects. In this case with these cameras, a 300mm lens (which the Canon kit comes with) will pull something that's nearly 100ft away to make it seem like it's only 10 feet away. The lens the Nikon comes with does the same for something that's only about 65 ft away.
Another thing I noticed just now, however, is that the Canon is capable of producing 18 megapixel (or million pixel) images, whereas the Nikon does 24 megapixels. I also understand that the Nikon cameras these days produce images that aren't nearly as grainy (read: "noisy") as the Canon, so that means the Nikon might be able to produce images that are a bit cleaner, especially in darker scenes.