Trekking LAB

In Tom Mangan’s Blog there is a post on which he comments the post 10 Reasons to Buy a DSLR Camera.

The real trick is matching your camera to your needs. I take pictures to post at 500 pixels wide on my Web site and I almost never switch out of full-automatic mode, so there’s not much point in me getting anything much bigger than the cheap 3 megapixel Canon I own now. A great photographer can take excellent pictures with the lousiest camera on earth, and 12,000 dollars worth of Nikon’s finest will not make a photographer out of you.

I’m taking all my pictures with a Nikon Coolpix 4300, sometimes I put it on my lightweight cullmann tripod, I switch the camera on manual mode and I take pretty good pictures.
In the post 10 Reasons to Buy a DSLR Camera the author says:

DSLR cameras are practically affordable nowadays. The big two (Canon and Nikon) currently offer DSLRs for as low as $500-$600 (Canon Digital Rebel XT and Nikon D50) and they’ve been encroaching on point-n-shoot price territory more and more each year. Believe it or not, this is actually already cheaper than some digicams out there.

Yes, it’s true, the price are affordable but you have to buy also at least three lenses if you want a good equipment!

What camera do you use in your hikes?