My budget limit is up to $1,500.00. I'm looking only for commercial, but handheld camera that will take professional photograph of anything that will be like in famous magazine, or someone like on Met-Art or Femjoy. Which Camera would it be? I'm considering Canon, Nikkon or other brand if available.

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For the budget you have, I would suggest the Nikon D90 with 18-105 mm lens combination or Canon 40D with a similar lens (the 50D is the newest but my colleagues who use Canon systems, say that the 40D give them more bang for the buck). http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/eng/Image-Quality-Database/Compare-cameras/(appareil1)/294%7C0/(appareil2)/180%7C0/(onglet)/0/(brand)/Nikon/(brand2)/Canon Don't forget a tripod and lighting if you are doing any studio work.

Magazine photographers often use a Hasselblad that run's in the tens of thousands. The usually shoot in medium format. In your price range the best you can get is probably a Nikon D90 and one lens.

Yes, what you see in magazines and art exhibitions is often taken by cameras that cost similarly to luxury cars (into $30,000-50,000 range for a kit). But these cameras don't take the pictures you see in magazines. As a matter of a fact no camera can take great pictures. Just like a great set of carpenters tools can not build a beautiful house, a set of nice pots and utensils won't cook a gourmet dinner and the best available paintbrushes and paints won't draw the state of the art pictures... All of these things, and cameras too - are the tools used by respective professionals! If you don't know what you're doing, and from the way you asked the question, I have a feeling that you have never studied photography as an art - you won't be able to create a masterpiece with even the best equipment out there. On the contrary, if you do know all about exposure and light, focal lengths apertures and shutter speeds, how to use depth of field and bokeh, know the rules of composition and how to create appropriate lightning for the scene, and how to use various equipment and props, how to pose the models and how to choose the right shooting conditions and of course have an eye for all that - then even some of the most basic cameras out there will produce great works of art in your hands. As you've already been told - your budget pretty much limits you to Nikon D90 with the kit lens, which is probably not the camera that is used by most magazine photographers (although could be, because it is perfectly capable). But don't expect it to make wonders for you. Remember, the success of a shot is about 80% dependent on the skill of the photographer, and only 20% (if not less) on the equipment, if not less! Perhaps you may want to buy a cheaper D5000 camera and invest the remainder of the money in taking at least a class or two in photography, or buying some good books and studying on your own? I have a feeling that this strategy will produce results that would be closer to what you want to achieve, than D90 and no studying at all. LEM.