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Even for an entry-lev­el cam­era in stores they will ask for a rather large amount. There­fore, to begin with, it is impor­tant for the buy­er to decide for what pur­pos­es he takes the cam­era and what bud­get he expects. KP has com­piled a series of tips for ratio­nal­ly buy­ing the best cam­era of 2022, and also select­ed 10 devices that are the best in this seg­ment.

Editor’s Choice

In order to make things eas­i­er for you, we have com­piled our top 10 cam­eras that will be the best choice for buy­ers in 2022. We did not divide cam­eras into ama­teur and advanced, but ranked them accord­ing to price-qual­i­ty ratio.

Nikon D850

High res­o­lu­tion equals high speed.

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The price can scare the user almost imme­di­ate­ly, but if they’re look­ing for the best cam­era they can buy right now, then Nikon’s stun­ning D850 will almost cer­tain­ly be out of the com­pe­ti­tion. With a sophis­ti­cat­ed 153-point aut­o­fo­cus sys­tem and a burst speed of 9fps, the D850 is arguably the most well-received cam­era ever.

Main characteristics

Type of	DSLR
Sen­sor size	full frame CMOS
Per­mis­sion	45.4 MP
Lens	Nikon F mount
Viewfind­er	optic
Screen type	3.2″ touch screen, 2,359,000 dots
Max­i­mum Con­tin­u­ous Shoot­ing Speed	9 fps
Movies	4K
User lev­el	inter­me­di­ate / expert

Pros and cons

Stun­ning image qual­i­ty, great per­for­mance

Low speed live view

Top 9 cameras according to KP

1. Sony Alpha A7 III

Sony’s entry-lev­el full-frame cam­era is a bril­liant buy.

Sony’s grow­ing line­up of full-frame mir­ror­less cam­eras offer a great alter­na­tive to Canon and Nikon’s DSLRs. The Alpha A7 III deliv­ers an amaz­ing com­bi­na­tion of fea­tures and per­for­mance, mak­ing it a bril­liant choice for the enthu­si­as­tic and even pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er. The mod­el high­lights an excel­lent 24-megapix­el full-frame sen­sor and an advanced 693-point aut­o­fo­cus (bor­rowed from the flag­ship Alpha A9).

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Pros and cons

2 Fujifilm X100F

Clas­sic design and con­trols make the cam­era per­fect.

The X100F is a great thing, but def­i­nite­ly not for every­one. This is a com­par­a­tive­ly com­pact retro-styled cam­era with a 35mm fixed focal length equiv­a­lent to an f/2.0 lens. It is designed for pho­tog­ra­phers who crave man­u­al exter­nal con­trol of tra­di­tion­al 35mm film rangefind­er cam­eras. All in all, this is a rel­a­tive­ly spe­cial­ized cam­era and most of its own­ers prob­a­bly have oth­er cam­eras as well.

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Pros and cons

3. Nikon D3400

Not the most expen­sive entry lev­el DSLR, but one of the best.

The Nikon D3400 builds on the bril­liant D3300 and is the best choice when it comes to entry-lev­el DSLRs. Shar­ing the same design and spec­i­fi­ca­tion as its pre­de­ces­sor, the D3400 adds Nikon’s Blue­tooth Snap­Bridge con­nec­tiv­i­ty to trans­fer images direct­ly to the device, sim­pli­fy­ing the pho­to shar­ing process. The 24.2MP sen­sor offers good image qual­i­ty, and the smart guide mode is a use­ful learn­ing tool that explains impor­tant fea­tures in real time.

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Pros and cons

4. Olympus OM‑D E‑M10 Mark III

Great per­for­mance in a super small pack­age.

The OM‑D E‑M10 Mark III isn’t a huge upgrade over the Mark II. How­ev­er, Olym­pus has improved and tweaked the DSLR a bit to make the device even more entic­ing for buy­ers. Some will crit­i­cize the small­er Micro Four Thirds sen­sor for­mat, but its impact on image qual­i­ty is neg­li­gi­ble, mean­ing the lens­es are as com­pact and light as the cam­era itself. On the plus side: 5‑axis image sta­bi­liza­tion sys­tem, decent elec­tron­ic viewfind­er, impres­sive shoot­ing speed (8.6 frames per sec­ond) and 4K video shoot­ing.

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5. Panasonic Lumix ZS200/TZ200

The ide­al trav­el cam­era is small, ver­sa­tile and has good zoom.

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Pana­son­ic Lumix ZS200/TZ200 is one of the best trav­el options. This is part­ly due to the 1.0‑inch sen­sor, which helps the device cap­ture much bet­ter images. The 15x zoom should be more than enough for most sit­u­a­tions, and the built-in elec­tron­ic viewfind­er makes it easy to frame images in nat­ur­al sun­light. 4K video record­ing along with Pana­son­ic 4K Pho­to mode is a very use­ful trav­el fea­ture.

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Pros and cons

6. Panasonic Lumix GH5S

The best video-ori­ent­ed cam­era.

The Lumix GH5S should be seen as a cam­corder first and fore­most, thanks to its 20.3‑megapixel sen­sor and built-in image sta­bi­liza­tion. The GH5S’s wide range of video capa­bil­i­ties is impres­sive, with the cam­era cap­tur­ing cin­e­mat­ic footage at up to 60 frames per sec­ond, for exam­ple.

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Pros and cons

7 Canon 800D

Canon’s best entry-lev­el DSLR offers pow­er and per­for­mance.

One of the best entry-lev­el DSLRs, the EOS 800D is an update to the 750D. The res­o­lu­tion remains the same, but it’s a new design with improved ISO per­for­mance. Aut­o­fo­cus has also received an upgrade over the old­er mod­el, now with a 45-point lay­out, backed up by an excel­lent real-time AF sys­tem. The lack of 4K video and build qual­i­ty leave a bite, but despite that, the 800D is a great option for begin­ners.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

8. Panasonic Lumix FZ2000

Fash­ion­able cam­era for the pho­tog­ra­ph­er who pur­sues qual­i­ty.

The mod­el stands out from oth­er devices with a fast lens with a 20x zoom, a large 1‑inch matrix with a res­o­lu­tion of 20 MP, an exten­sive selec­tion of video modes with pro­fes­sion­al func­tions. We can only find fault with the decrease in image sharp­ness at the edges of the frame, espe­cial­ly at long focal lengths, as well as the rather short bat­tery life.

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9. GoPro Hero6 Black

The king of action cam­eras.

The GoPro Hero6 Black is the best action cam­era a user can buy. It has plen­ty of fea­tures, includ­ing 4K shoot­ing at up to 60fps, as well as 1080p super slow motion video at 240fps. Don’t for­get that the device is water­proof to a depth of 10 meters, has a con­ve­nient 2‑inch touch screen, and the updat­ed appli­ca­tion with Quik­Sto­ries auto­mat­i­cal­ly trans­fers and edits the cap­tured footage.

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How to choose a camera

Budget

First, the user needs to decide how much mon­ey he has to buy a cam­era. This is a good way to eval­u­ate what lev­el of cam­era he will even­tu­al­ly get. Larg­er, inter­change­able lens, more attrac­tive cam­eras for cap­tur­ing high-res­o­lu­tion images and, for exam­ple, dig­i­tal reflex cam­eras (DSLR) cost more than 50 thou­sand rubles.

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Usage time

First of all, you need to imag­ine how often you plan to use the cam­era: dai­ly, month­ly, or just a cou­ple of times a year. If you’re look­ing for a vaca­tion cam­era, a cheap­er mod­el might be a great option. We can advise you to pur­chase a com­pact cam­era in the mid­dle price range. But if you plan to seri­ous­ly take up pho­tog­ra­phy, even at an ama­teur lev­el, not pro­fes­sion­al­ly, you will have to invest in a more seri­ous device.

Purpose of using the camera

A device that is great for shoot­ing por­traits will not be the right cam­era for a camp­ing trip. If the buy­er plans to shoot only high-qual­i­ty pho­tos in the stu­dio, then the choice should fall on an expen­sive SLR cam­era.

One gen­er­al rule to keep in mind is that small­er cam­eras and cam­eras with few­er remov­able or inter­change­able parts are best suit­ed for trav­el.

Camera type selection

It can be said that most users tend to buy dig­i­tal SLR cam­eras.

Dig­i­tal SLR cam­eras (DSLR) or sin­gle lens dig­i­tal cam­eras con­sist of a body and remov­able lens­es. This type of cam­era pro­vides very high qual­i­ty images that can be enlarged to huge sizes and print­ed, for exam­ple, on an entire wall in an apart­ment. Such devices are not cheap: a good ama­teur DSLR costs from 50 thou­sand rubles. The price tag for mod­els that give pro­fes­sion­al-qual­i­ty pic­tures starts from 100 thou­sand rubles.

In addi­tion, pur­chas­ing a high-qual­i­ty DSLR allows you to pur­chase dif­fer­ent types of lenses—such as wide-angle, macro, or fisheye—without hav­ing to pur­chase a new cam­era for each lens.

It is worth choos­ing a DSLR for the sake of com­plete con­trol over the process of pho­tog­ra­phy. With the help of the cam­era, you can adjust the shut­ter speed, aper­ture, change the ISO speed (light sen­si­tiv­i­ty) and set all the set­tings that he needs. How­ev­er, then you will have to study and test all the set­tings — not all fans have the desire and time for this. Often, just auto­mat­ic mode is enough.

There are two draw­backs to DSLR cam­eras — they are heavy and expen­sive. In addi­tion, they are also less prac­ti­cal to wear.

“Soap dishes”

The next type of cam­eras are the so-called point-and-shoot (com­pact auto­mat­ic cam­eras or sim­ply “soap dish­es”). These are rel­a­tive­ly cheap cam­eras that are easy to use. Point and shoot cam­eras work like this: the user points the cam­era at an object, zooms in or out, and then press­es a but­ton to take a pic­ture. Such cam­eras require very lit­tle effort on the part of the pho­tog­ra­ph­er. They usu­al­ly focus and adjust to the light­ing con­di­tions.

Per­haps, such cam­eras are the ide­al choice for non-pro­fes­sion­als. In addi­tion, they are usu­al­ly very com­pact, eas­i­ly fit in a small back­pack or small hand­bag.

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Film cameras — for those who are in the subject

This option is now exot­ic. Ana­log (film) cam­eras do have some advan­tages in terms of image qual­i­ty. But be pre­pared for addi­tion­al costs and has­sle. You will have to pay for the film and devel­op it some­where, dig­i­tize it and (or) print the pho­to.

Brand

The most famous cam­era man­u­fac­tur­ers are Nikon or Canon. If you are look­ing for an inex­pen­sive device to use sev­er­al times a year, you can buy a device from any pop­u­lar brand. If you choose an advanced cam­era, you should study in great detail all the offers in the seg­ment that your bud­get is enough for.

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