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| | | Re: Camera for UE'ing. < Reply # 1 on 4/27/2010 11:20 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Billy So I have been using a Sony Cybershot T-100 and a Canon S5 IS for about the last two years between the two for my exploring, and I am finally getting to where just having pictures despite quality isn't enough for me! I want pictures that arn't grainy, that I didn't have to take six times to get a good clear one, or that look good on the 2 inch LCD screen, but when I get home I find are blurryish or just plain not that well. I'm tired of point and shoot at 8 mega pixels damn it! So i've decided to take it up a notch. I was wondering if anyone had any pointers, tips, personal stories of trial and error, encouragement, discouragement, anything.
| My experience was similar, though on a shorter time-frame. After about three trips with a friend's point-and-shoot (much lower quality than yours), I decided that I wanted to be able to take decent photos. I researched quite a bit and found that my problems at the time were about equal parts skill and equipment, so I bought a used entry-level DSLR with a kit lens, read a bit online, memorized the guide-book for that camera, and started taking exponentially better pictures. I'm not sure how much you know about photography in general (lord knows I'm no expert), but the best, most concise piece I've found on the technical aspects of photography is Bernie's Better Beginner's Guide to Photography for Computer Geeks Who Want to be Digital Artists. As for the gear- I don't know about the higher-end point-and-shoots like the S5 IS, but as I understand it, there's a significant difference interface, quality, and control between PAS and DSLR. I'd recommend upgrading to an entry level one (the Nikon D40 or Cannon equivalent, perhaps) and seeing where tat takes you.
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| Billy
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| | | | Re: The Official "What camera to buy?" Thread < Reply # 5 on 4/27/2010 9:23 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| phrenzee
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| | | Re: The Official "What camera to buy?" Thread < Reply # 7 on 5/20/2010 2:07 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Being a dedicated Pentaxian, I would love to buy this, but will have to wait until it comes down in price a little. Pentax reveals 40MP DSLR monster, the 645D Mar. 10, 2010 By: John Brownlee Pentax’s latest medium-format DSLR is an absolute monster. Called the 645D, it packs 40 Megapixel onto its thirty three millimeter by forty four millimeter sensor. Got that? Forty megapixels. That’s completely ridiculous, even for a DSLR, and usually I’d argue that’s way too many megapixels to take good pictures even with a great camera… by the 64D’s sensor is actually significantly larger than the average 35mm 36 x 24 x 2mm sensor. It might just be able to handle it. The Pentax 645D is aimed mostly at photographers working within a studio, so most of the features are pretty standard, but there are some interesting ones, like built-in HDR. The Pentax 645D also uses SD cards in a dual-slot configuration over the ubiquitous Compact Flash. There’s also an in-camera HDR mode that will combine three separate images into one. There’s also some impressive exposure modes to boast of. There’s the usual shutter and aperture-priority modes, but there’s also a sensitivity-priority mode, which automatically adjusts the ISO according to the shutter and aperture settings you pick. As far as chassis construction is concerned, the Pentax 645D looks a lot like the 645: it’s essentially a black cube with a ergonomic handle, with top and rear screens with a tempered glass covers and a large viewfinder that covers 89% of the images. The body even has dust reduction. But don’t expect this much camera to come cheap: when it comes out in Japan in May, it’ll start at $10,000. Read more at DPReview
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| hydrotherapy Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion Total Likes: 9 likes
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| | | | Re: The Official "What camera to buy?" Thread < Reply # 13 on 5/26/2010 8:19 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by AnAppleSnail
Dig for comparisons. AF, noise, and white balance can be 'dated.' The lens sometimes is.
| And ask for shutter actuations, cause a shutter can fatigue and that's just bad news all around. Also, ask for an example of the camera shooting in pure black or pure white circumstances. Will give you an idea of what condition the sensor is in and if you have any dead pixels to deal with. Also I know it's been brought up before, but B&H is pretty rigid with their graded gauge for used equipment: http://www.bhphoto.../2891/N/4294182648 As for would you tire of it- I started off with a Canon Rebel XT and anything better would have been wasted on me for a few years. It was a great little workhorse, and I slowly upgraded my lenses before I did my body, and then it was time for a new tripod. I now play with a Canon 1DS and 5D and tip my hat to having been able to afford a less awesome body to get me out there and shooting/learning faster. You can always upgrade piecemeal with dSLRs.
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