>>3506807Well D3x00s are pretty gimped cameras. I don't suppose there's used D7100/7200s to be had?
Don't put much stock in the free-accessories shit. The body cap, eyecup, battery, charger, and shoulder strap come with the camera. The lens cap comes with the lens. I forget if the new 18-55s come with a hood or if they don't and that one is a cheap screw in generic one, if its the latter you don't want it. SD card and rocket blower, yeah, sure, you need those things anyway, but they only cost a few dollars as it is. (You can get surprisingly expensive SD cards with high write speeds - this isn't one of them) USB card reader, same deal, useful, but it's just some generic $2 Chinese thing. I don't know if thats an actual lens pen or just a brush, probably the latter, and therefore not really all that important when you have the puffer bulb. The bag... eh. guess you could use it but you don't really need that.
okay now we get down to the other stuff. Any tripod you get as a free pack-in is shit. Lots of people have one of those things as their first tripod. I did, once upon a time. It broke in like three months and also didn't really keep the camera very steady because it was made of bottom-dollar Chinesium. The filters are even more shit. At that price they're gonna be cheap uncoated glass (= flares and contrast loss) and they're also gonna have odd color casts. (also that cheap lens is going to be a pain to use with a polarizer because the front filter threads rotate) The add-on macro and telephoto lenses are, again, uncoated at this price point. They won't really accomplish anything but making you disappointed at the soft, fuzzy images you get while using them.
if it sounds like I'm very unenthusiastic about this, even for a beginner on a budget, that'd be because... I am. You can do better with used stuff. Even then, this is not $400 and done forever, this is $400 now and then more later on as you get better.
