Eight years ago, I bought my first SLR (single-lens reflex camera). It was a Canon Rebel, the same camera my editor at the Pennington Post had, and owning it made it nearly impossible for me to take bad photos. That $500 — paid back to my parents in installments — was worth every penny.
Now I have the Nikon D40X, a gift from my family, and it’s been proving indispensable to my work since the moment I received it.
