Hi people, Im planning to buy dslr.
To begin with, im not into serious photography in (fact i never own a camera except my crappy phone's), but for next several sem photography is going to be a serious business.
While im totally a newbie to dslr, I still understand the fundamentals of af, iso, shutter time, aperture and other consideration for good image ( mostly thanks to dad's camera experience back in 1996s )
My subjects mostly are image of plants, soil, pest fungi/insect, plant diseases and whatever else agriculture yada yada. While im at it of course, ill start to venture on creative photography as well.
so im stuck with this budget:

D3200 kit (18-55mm) + 50mm f/1.8 D
D3200 body + 50mm f/1.8 G
D5100 kit (18-55mm) + 50mm f1.8 D


so the question is going to be:

- D3200 vs D5100: which is better? High pixel density(24mp -__-) tend to screw up at high ISO, but most of review suggests Nikon somehow managed to negate this issue with D3200. Any experience/comment?
I would love D5100 but the swivel lcd is huge turnoff. im not fan of fancy mechanical parts(I know this going to be the 1st part that will screw up).
- Tight budget here, is it worth it to ditch kit lens (AF, VR, zoom) in favor of AF capable (G) prime 1.8 lens? or I should just get both but at cost of having only D prime lens?

actually i have lots of question but my brain sudednly blur now lol

im going to use large part of study loan for this so slightest mistake is going to considered as misuse and terrible bad purchase. omg

hmm.. good point.
just I have to carefully deal with water droplets and learn to be little gentler or else it will snap anytime lol (you know how the haphazardly excessive strength that naturally comes out from agriculture people's hand )

for the distance 100-45 cm seems a sweet spot for the purpose. any closer up to 10:1 i usually just bring the sample to lab for microscope imaging.

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