I have hobby of photography. I want to buy a Digital SLR camera and lense set. I want to use this for my personal photography as well as professional (participate in competitions and Exhibitions, sell if possible). Which model should I by. Please advise, experts.

Beside white lenses are so gay hehe.

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For me quality of picture is more important than comforts.
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if you are thinking of around 1700, then stretch a little and go full frame with canon 5D (around 1600. - the stretching part was for a great lens).

Also don't, don't fall for the MegaPixel race. Its overhyped.

I dont understand why Canon burried important camera adjustment settings deep inside the menus.

Lighting situations canges constantly and faster accessibilty to these adjustment menus are key to make changes to camera settings instantly for getting better results without missing shots. At least Nikon has addressed this issue to some extent.

Nikon cameras and lenses are backward campatiable. You can use the any lenses made in the last 30 years on the latest DSLRs and still able to use the most important features.

My suggestion- Invest far more on lenses than on camera body. Great optics make better pics.

The other fact is digital cameras are expensive disposable cameras. Evey model gets replaced in about every two years. Ironicaly film cameras dont become outdated like digital ones because every year the scanner have become more and more advanced that can churn out more and more out of scanned film.