I have made a small research over the Internet looking for the best value camera. There were several candidate, those are:
1. Nikon D7000
2. Nikon D90
3. Canon D60
4. Nikon D5100
5. Nikon D3100

Maybe you smile why I compare cameras with different classes, of course the higher class is the winner. There are many consideration to buy a camera, those are:
1. Budget
2. Requirement
3. Image quality
4. Speed
5. Features
6. Third party support like lenses and flashes

Mini Photo Studio requires correct light source to produce optimal photos. Good light source doesn't mean expensive light source like soft box or flash light controlled with remote which have cost more than 500 U$. We can use our lamps at home but with brighter light bulbs with cost only 10 - 40U$ per lamp with it stand 7 - 30U$.

Neon lamp is the perfect lamp for mini photo studio instead of flash. It has advantages, for instance:

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GIMP is the best free image editing software available. GIMP is comparable with Photoshop in the basic used of image editing. It provides layer editing, image filtering, image improvement and support many image formats. GIMP can run on Unix (Linux varian), Mac, and Windows operating system.

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If we have a photography hobby, we can improve our hobby to make our photos much better using small effort and cost. Even we can get money also from our hobby.