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Do I need an very expensive camera (600-2000 dollar range) to take beautiful photography worthy pictures? |
or can I use a (120-200 dollar) point & shoot digital camera to photograph people,,buildings and cars and stuff. because I belive its not the camera it's the photographer I bought a $250 Kodak digital and it takes wonderful pics. You need first some photo courses. If you want a really good one- Calumet sells floor models and things like that for cheaper. I saw a Nikon D70 for $450 (body only). You may want to see what they have. :) Sweety, you don't need to spend an arm and a leg on a camera for beautiful pictures. Look at your subject (scene, person, animal), study it, then take those pictures. In the beginning, your pictures may not be great, but if you practice, you'll be soon be shooting great photographs. (I used a disposable for years before I bought a 'real' camera.) Good luck. I agree with what you are saying up to a point, that it's the photographer, not the camera. However, if the camera can't accurately and faithfully record what you are seeing and translate it to a picture, then, you have a problem. Even then, there is just no reason at all to spend that kind of money unless you are a professional and just need a wide array of equipment and flashes and lenses, and plan on doing some really big format film. For 99% of everybody taking pics, you can spend 300-400 and have everything you ever desired. It's not necessary to spend a fortune. Please read the reviews (lots of them on Amazon.com) for the Canon A540 6 megapixel digital camera. It will do anything imaginable for a point and shoot photographer, and it will do all kinds of other things for the artistic or semi-professional photographer. You can shoot in b&w, monochrome, you can zoom way in, and you can use the macro functions. The shutter speed will allow for high speed fast photography, and also, for very, very slow shutter speeds. The resolution is good enough to use for up to 8x10" enlargements of high quality. All of this, and for less than $250 if you shop online. You'll spend nothing on film and developing. You may spend some money on quality photo paper and you'd need a decent printer, but you can get a really nice printer for less than 200 as well. Needless to say, it's also simple enough to get a really good non-digital SLR for less than $600. You can get a ricoh or pentax body for less than $200 ( 35 mm of course) and a couple of decent lenses for another $250. If you shop on www.craigslist.com and get a used one, you can do even better. A well cared for camera may as well be brand new. I have been using my ricoh XR-10 for almost 20 years and it looks and shoots like new. good luck - Kevin camera only a tool for photographic creativity. if you know how to use a specific tool, does not matters how much that tool cost. the expensive tool makes it easier and gives more freedom to create your masterpiece. if you are a great photographer, a pinhole camera will gives you a great photograph. but you need other accessories like lens, film or memory cards, battery and flash to go with the camera as well. But if you have $2000 to spend on a camera, go for it. The secret to taking good images is knowing the limitations of the camera you're using and knowing about composition, lighting... etc. However, a camera that allows you to control the focus, the size of the aperture and shutter speed will give you more options and opportunities to capture a good image over the existing environment... and it doesn't have to cost you much. Look, you can get a $320 or so digital camera that you can pretty much operate automatically like a point and shoot, the Canon S3 iS, at www.beachcamera.com and get superb images. It has a 12x lens (no interchangeable lens capacity) but you view your subject through the same lens that takes the photo. IT has image stabilizer feature, movie capacity, etc. OR you can spend a little more, and get a better quality lens, try the Nikon D40 with the kit lens for about $400. OR, still better? Get the Nikon D50 with the kit lens for about $500. IF you REALLY want a super lens on a super great camera, try the Nikon D80 with the Nikkor AF DX 18-135mm lens... you'll have a poor man's "pro-camera" at a consumer's price, about $1,170 (see www.beachcamera.com). You'll have similar features to the pro-level cameras and a lens with one of the best glass formulas on the market. The great thing about Nikkor "DX" lenses and Nikon DSLR cameras is that they're compatible with one another (Nikon has not changed the lens mount on any of their cameras, digital or film, since 1959), and you can go from one camera to a more sophisticated camera without having to change lenses, too. You're correct about the photographer being more important than the camera; an expensive camera will not make a better photographer anymore than an expensive hammer will make a better carpenter... (besides, Shakespeare nor Mark Twain nor Hemingway had a typewriter or a word processor to write such great works of literature, right?) |
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