For my upcoming trip, I felt I needed to upgrade my old Nikon D3000 to a model with more megapixels. 10 wasn’t cutting it anymore. But new cameras come at an hefty price, even the budget models like the D3000 back in the day.
I am not a skilled photographer. I did make some good shots at the Berlin Zoo decades ago but I never got round to spending more time with my camera and propely use it. I enjoy taking photos. Some familymember took one of my nicer photos that I took of my family from Facebook and printed it out when my dad passed away. I wished they asked me for the original image because the resolution from Facebook pic was shit. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Between my D3000 and my current camera I had a LUMIX vlog set, kinda swayed by all those YTubers that one day I would vlog too. But I dislike the sound of my own voice and I have nothing interesting to tell. (˶>⩊<˶) Maybe I will get an OSMO one day and vlog with voice over about the Netherlands. About the LUMIX, I do not like that camera, the flip screen died twice on me and fed up with the constant repairs. So it is collecting dust in my closet.
Finding a new D3400 was not possible as this camera was launced in 2016. I was looking at a 24 megapixel range and with an F-mount. My objectives are still in great shape and buying a different mount camera would seem like a waste as I would have to buy new objectives.
I’ve been on the refurbished tour lately, my Iphone 13 is a preowned device and I wanted to be more sustainable with my purchases so off to the second hand camera market I went. There are several websites out there but I chose to get my camera via MPB.
Initially I was looking at the D3500, the replacement for the D3400 but the megapixels were at the same level. If it had a significant change it would have been interesting to add the extra €80 for the upgrade. The camera I eventually got costed me €230 and had only 5000 clicks on it. Very nice deal. And came with 12 months warranty. ദ്ദി( • ᴗ – ) ✧
Shipping was superfast from Germany, I got the original box and charger. And what I love about this camera is that I left the battery in for a little under two weeks and it did not drain at all. My Lumix drained the flipping battery in a day and I had to remove it each time I did not use it during the day to make sure I did not run out. WTF is up with that battery life?
My old 8GB SanDisk UltraII card worked on it but 8GB will not be enough when I go to Japan. The best suggested card for this model would be the SanDisk Ultra SDXC UHS-I cards and I was in luck that they were being sold online for 52% off. So I got two of those, 128GB each. If I run out of memory card space, I can always buy extra at Yodabashi (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)
Only flaw the camera had some adhesive at the bottom but I managed to scrape that off.
The website experience was great, the fast shipping was great and the condition was just as advertised. I will be using MPB a lot more in the future. I need a macro lens for my miniature photograpy but first this trip lies ahead of us.