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I agree that it doesn't have to be about how much $$ you can spend on your camera equipment. For pretty much my whole railfanning career (20 yrs) I've had the same manual, basic Minolta 35 mm SLR. Its served me ver well and I have taken best of show 5 times at NMRA regional meets, had one photo published in a magazine and have a lot of nice stuff in my files. The best of show shots weren't extraordinary trains. They were all actually very ordinary trains, but somehow I caught a really good composition that day. I subscribe to the 1% rule. That is, 1 out of every 100 photos I shoot will turn out very cool. There's probably 80 or 85 others that are acceptable and the rest go in the trash. By the way - don't save those which need to be tossed. You might be "tempted" to show them to someone in a slide show and that will degrade your work. My wife pulled me into the digital photo age. We bought a basic Olympus then after a few years, upgraded to a 3.1 megapixel. It did great for several more years. I've started doing some pics for pay (graduation pix, weddings, stuff like that.) The 3.1 actuall did pretty good. We just bought a 5.1 mp and it has the capability to change lenses. Should be interesting. I'd encourage people to start smaller. Don't overkill the budget and get too many bells and whistles that ultimately you'll seldom use. Just cover the basics really well and you'll be happy. I use Adobe Photo Shop. Good product, but not soooo easy to learn. Once you do its great, but I was very frustrated at first. Got the photoshop for dummies book and it really helped. Good luck. - Stack.
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